Comments on: Reading & Maths http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2008/07/reading-maths/ Learning difficulties including dyslexia. Download testing sheets Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Dawn Matthews http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2008/07/reading-maths/comment-page-1/#comment-6432 Dawn Matthews Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:40:45 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2008/07/12/reading-maths/#comment-6432 hi, thanks for your email. you and your daughter need to know WHY she is having trouble at school. children that do not keep up and are bright learn differently from other children. they perceive the world in a slightly different way and therefore need teaching in a slightly different way. if she has problems with the small irregularly spelt words - the ones i call stupid words - then she most likely does not recall the look of a word. this is typical of a dyslexic. she does not, necessarily need a label but you do need to know how she learns and then you know to teach her. there is a tick box test on this site that you could start with. there are more tests in the book dyslexia - how to win. however if you read this book and it seems to be describing your daughter exactly you can pretty well know that she is a classic and the book then tells you exactly how to teach her, which is the important thing. i do not know of anyone in tasmania but if there anyone out there please contact me so i can refer people to you, cheers dawn hi,
thanks for your email. you and your daughter need to know WHY she is having trouble at school. children that do not keep up and are bright learn differently from other children. they perceive the world in a slightly different way and therefore need teaching in a slightly different way. if she has problems with the small irregularly spelt words – the ones i call stupid words – then she most likely does not recall the look of a word. this is typical of a dyslexic.

she does not, necessarily need a label but you do need to know how she learns and then you know to teach her.
there is a tick box test on this site that you could start with. there are more tests in the book dyslexia – how to win. however if you read this book and it seems to be describing your daughter exactly you can pretty well know that she is a classic and the book then tells you exactly how to teach her, which is the important thing.

i do not know of anyone in tasmania but if there anyone out there please contact me so i can refer people to you,
cheers
dawn

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