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[chickencam]

My son has always been able to read well and his speach therapist commented on his good vocabulary, it was just unintelligable to most people He has an IEP at the school he is at now and was on the special needs register at his primary school. He has always been clumsy, he is better now than he was which considering how much he has grown in the last year is quite amazing

[chelsea]

Bravo to him no wonder you are all proud.

 

He deserves a nice treat!

[Woodcat]

So many things about dyslexia (just looked at the website above) seem to be what my YS is like apart from his reading. He's always read and been tested above his age but he just cannot learn his tables, cannot spell (having extra lessons at school), terrible handwriting, clumsy as anything (broken nose ). His school seem quite focused and are good. At primary he had an IEP. Now he's in secondary they are just keeping an eye on him, but run successmaker classes before school.

 

 

i'm a diagnosed severe dyslexic and always had a very high reading age and learnt to read early. The reading problems are the most common sign but as with anything of this sort they are not always there.

[Seagazer]

Thats very interesting Woodcat and Chickencam, . I would have thought something would have been mentioned before now though? Do you think?

 

YS also had speech therapy although in the end it completely stressed him out and he began to stammer so it was all slowed down and his speech is ok now.

 

It will be interesting to see what school says during parents evening.

[Woodcat]

Thats very interesting Woodcat and Chickencam, . I would have thought something would have been mentioned before now though? Do you think?

 

I made it to 14 before i was diagnosed so while it is usually picked up early it can be missed particularly if he can read well.

[Seagazer]

Ok thanks Woodcat, will look into this.

[chickencam]

That makes sense to me too, because although various things have been mentioned in passing before now nothing has been done. With his school being a high achieving grammar school they can't afford to let the boys fall behind, so if they had felt the need to refer him before now then they would. I suspect they get a lot of boys with poor handwriting in yr 7 but most of them have improved by yr 9 so that the ones that need help are more obvious by then.

[Seagazer]

Thats true, they start to mature a bit by then (well supposed to!)

[chickencam]

He has matured in lots of ways, but he has become even more cuddly, it's a wierd time for them when they suddenly grow and get a voice that won't do as it is told. He squeaks when he gets annoyed or excited and his sisters rib him for it no end and ask him to sing scales which is hilarious I have to say

 

He is now about 4 inches taller than me and being hugged by him is like being hugged by an over enthusiastic gorilla

[Seagazer]

I'm glad to hear you're still getting hugs - my ES (18) looks scared when I go in for a cuddle. Think he much prefers his girlfriend's cuddles now

 

YS is still cuddly though and so is DD, not sure what went wrong with ES

[chickencam]

Fortunately mine all love a hug, I have always made a point from the word go of giving lots of hugs because I didn't get any when I was little. my parents were always affectionate to each other but not to me. When my dad had a heart attack a few years ago was the first time that I had hugged either of them since being a very small child. Don't get me wrong they were good parents just a bit lacking in the affection department

 

I have just done the test on the embarrassing bodies thread and I am beginning to understand that it is amazing how normal I am with some of the genes that I have.

[Seagazer]

Believe me its not for the want of trying!!! He's always been so independant. There's a photo of me giving him a hug at his 18th party - someone took a photo from the other side and he's pulling a face! Bless him

 

Funnily enough I've been noticing that OH has stopped kissing YS, he's still giving him a hug but no kiss. His side of the family are not demonstrative like mine. Perhaps thats where ES gets it from.

[Happy chickens!]

Well done and enjoy your moment.

[earthmam1]

My MS was diagnosed with dyslexia at University. :sho We knew there was something not quite right and kept going up to his school (we dont have grammer here) and being told he is lazy etc. He would not see where to put capital letters, punctuation etc. He would miss an odd letter out of words.

 

He got enough GCSE to get to 6th form and managed to get A levels to get to Uni to study multia media.

 

When he got to Uni they then screened everyone because they said they were fed up with students who were missed from the schools. He did the test and then had to go to a dyslexic centre where he did a whole series of tests. It came back that he was dyslexic but had a very high IQ and he had compenstate all through school.

 

We felt terrible although we had been to the schools and 6th form and also had got home tutors in for him. The schools and 6th form did not really want to know because he was working at just below average, not a very good ethos

 

He now is sailing through Uni, Got a 2.1 in a foundation degtree and is turning it into an honours degree and on course for a 2.1 He also mentors kids in secondary school and 6th form who have issues and shows them that they can get to Uni if they want.

 

;He said to me when he was diagnosed with dyslexia "I just felt dumb and I am not" I am very proud of him

[Seagazer]

Oh Earthmam1 thats actually brought tears to my eyes. Well done your son (and you) for doing so well.

[Woodcat]

My MS was diagnosed with dyslexia at University. :sho We knew there was something not quite right and kept going up to his school (we dont have grammer here) and being told he is lazy etc. He would not see where to put capital letters, punctuation etc. He would miss an odd letter out of words.

 

He got enough GCSE to get to 6th form and managed to get A levels to get to Uni to study multia media.

 

When he got to Uni they then screened everyone because they said they were fed up with students who were missed from the schools. He did the test and then had to go to a dyslexic centre where he did a whole series of tests. It came back that he was dyslexic but had a very high IQ and he had compenstate all through school.

 

We felt terrible although we had been to the schools and 6th form and also had got home tutors in for him. The schools and 6th form did not really want to know because he was working at just below average, not a very good ethos

 

He now is sailing through Uni, Got a 2.1 in a foundation degtree and is turning it into an honours degree and on course for a 2.1 He also mentors kids in secondary school and 6th form who have issues and shows them that they can get to Uni if they want.

 

;He said to me when he was diagnosed with dyslexia "I just felt dumb and I am not" I am very proud of him

 

It's terrible that there are so many assumptions in schools about what dyslexia is and isn't. It's brilliant that your sons doing so well. It does make you wonder how many others have slipped through the net and not gone to uni to have it picked up. Congratulation on his success to you both and how wonderful that he is mentoring other kids. Sometimes it can make all the difference to a kids school life.

[Geoid]

When I was first tested for dyslexia 7 years ago, the school decided to do nothing about it because 'I was coping'

[Karen & co.]

Dyslexia is one of the few things that really gets me hopping up and down on my soap-box

 

As the wife of a wonderful OH diagnosed after my nagging at the age of 40 and spending ALL his time at school and uni etc. feeling "thick" and needing to work twice as hard as everyone else He has been a Doctor since graduating med school, and currently working as a GP.

 

ES had all the signs at primary school, they were reluctant to test him as "He isn't failing" Diagnosed in year 8 and bullied for months before he snapped an hit the worst of the bullies after he made nasty comments about me The boy he hit is now a friend of his He is scarily bright but not achieving his potential and will come out of 6th form with 'OK' A levels because he feels he doesn't deserve any better and doesn't want a laptop or extra time in exams

 

ED was diagnosed at primary school, and the head at the time asked me why I wanted her to have a label

 

YS is I think fine but I fear YD is also dyslexic. It is a life affecting condition and in the big wide world not just where people mix up b's and d's Short term working memory, and organisational skills are all things that are affected to some degree.

 

Sorry to rant and rage, but I think that people affected by dyslexia are unusually gifted in their own ways, and need and deserve support and understanding. They are also capeable of achieving anything they want to

 

*jumps of soap box*

 

Karen x

[chickencam]

My son has all sorts of organisational difficulties, bad spelling transposed letters etc.

 

I had a long chat with the SEN guy at his school today, he rang me back at 6pm because it was the only time he had, I was really impressed and he is so approachable. He said that they have recently tightened up the definition of dyslexia and that James is very inlikely to be diagnosed because he is a high achiever in most non literacy areas. He did say that their assessor is very open minded and may well recommend him for extra exam time. One thing he said that made me very happy was 'I really like James' in a very genuine way, most people do because he is a bit an enigma, a gentle deep thinker

 

We will go ahead and get the assessment done but it won't be until after Easter so in the meantime he is going to trial using a laptop. We have tried to impress on him the importance of saving his work carefully and printing off hard copies etc. Hopefully it will help him a lot.

[Geoid]

Dont bother printing off hard copies, they waste paper and ink and they get lost. Just backup on to a external hard disk.

[Woodcat]

He said that they have recently tightened up the definition of dyslexia and that James is very inlikely to be diagnosed because he is a high achiever in most non literacy areas.

 

 

Maybe i'm being daft but surely the main area that dyslexia effects is literacy. Presumably he means that his vocal contributions are too good and that he does to well in non essay based subjects? In which case if the vocal and the written don't match up he is more likely to be diagnosed i may have got the wrong end there but it sounds a tad odd.

[chickencam]

Dont bother printing off hard copies, they waste paper and ink and they get lost. Just backup on to a external hard disk.

 

Would you then do revision from the screen then, I would have thought that paer notes would be easier to read?

 

We will have to wait and see what the assessor makes of James, he is doing very well in subjects like chemistry where there is much less writing to be done, but is struggling in History and English, where he has the knowledge and ideas but can't get them down quickly enough and in a legible form.