Not every child who is late learning to talk or understand language has verbal dyspraxia. In fact very few have. Verbal dyspraxia is a very specific learning disability and I have found that most also have Developmental Motor Dyspraxia.
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I have been working with kids in Australia for four years and before that I worked in Scotland for longer than a care to remember. During this time I have been given tons of primary school homework sheets and I can honestly say that very few of them were even remotely interesting.
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Most pupils acquire the skills of reading and writing with comparative ease. The dyslexic child, because of his/her learning difficulties, will struggle to make progress when taught these skills by normal established methods. Teachers and parents will find it frustrating to observe how little progress is being made with these children and will be tempted to repeat lessons or go through programs more thoroughly when what is needed is a different approach.
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Problems with numeracy, sometimes called Dyscalculia, can be another possible marker of dyslexia. Some of the difficulties experienced in numeracy can be attributed simply to the difficulty in reading or taking in long instructions and has no reflection on the maths itself. So, the core problem is often the literacy problem.
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When screening for dyslexia some markers to look for are reading, writing and spelling problems.
However, dyslexia is not limited to these problems and even though a child has these problems s/he may not have dyslexia. These difficulties in the dyslexic child put them under huge stress and disadvantage them in a classroom environment.
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The label “dyslexia” or “dyslexic” need not be feared. With the correct help, any child or adult with dyslexia can be turned around and become successful.
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I confess that I am old enough to know that calculators were invented, or at least on the market, before digital phones. And I ask the question, “does it mean that digital phones are to blame for not following the stupidity of calculators or calculators to blame for being so stupid in the first place?”
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Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder are labels that are being used more and more in Australia. We are interested in these conditions because of their link with dyslexia. in many of the cases where ADD or ADHD has been diagnosed, we have been able to cure the problem by applying our methods and treating the student as dyslexic.
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Far too often, when trying to describe dyspraxia, the simplicity of the learning disorder gets lost in a cloud of scientific words and labels, in the same way as it can with dyslexia. I will try to keep everything very simple.
Dyspraxia is generally broken down into two types, Developmental Motor Dyspraxia (DMD) and Verbal Dyspraxia
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I write this because so many of my pupils have asked the question,
“Why are computer keyboards lain out in such an odd way?”
“Why not,” my pupils keep asking, “put the letters alphabetically?”
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