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Thanks for all your info Dawn & time.
When you have a child that never gives up, you want to keep pushing on.
Our daughter Sarah, is an anxious child, loves being at home with her family, home body, and loves the water, beach. Sarah has ADD/ADHD, expressive language difficulties, learning difficulties, however very visual, and learns visually, Sarah is 9yrs old.
I did the Tick box assessment / for the 8-13yrs for Dyspraxia, Sarah’s score was 19.
I also did the Dyslexia late infant or early primary screening sheet Sarah’s score was 12.
I am a little dyslexic myself, so probably from my side of the family.
Sarah has had expressive speech difficulties since she started to talk, Sarah did speech therapy for 6yrs. Sarah is reading well, Sarah is doing tennis lessons at the moment and has really improved, plus we bought a trampoline, as she takes a while to try new things, and the trampoline takes her out of her comfort zone which is good, Dawn suggests the wobble board which is brilliant for balance also. Sarah is learning to surf on a surfboard, we are seeing big improvements in all area’s of her gross motor skills, all these things help her confidence, In the past I have tried Sarah on
Omega fish oil since little, taken her to occupational behavioural optometry, speech therapy, neuro psychologist, you name it.
I would like to say Dawn has up to date research and provides practical resources for children like Sarah who don’t learn the mainstream way.
I wished all states in Australia would adopt Dawn’s methods of teaching children that learn differently, our daughter is very visual and Dawn’s resources are fantastic.
Thanks again
[name withheld, Sydney Australia]
instead of doing the fast forward you can buy earobics DVD at a fraction of the cost and i have found it to be as god.
Dawn
We did look into fast forward, got all the info DVD etc, we were already doing
with our daughter education DVD on the computer Maths and English, fun type learning computer games, from Tandy, Dick Smith etc, our speech therapist
looked into fast forward and said what you are already doing is very similar, our daughter Sarah is very visual, learns visually, Sarah is a whiz on the computer, plus fast forward was big $$$$, also looked into Cell field again big$$$$ and no studies to back up what they say it does, have looked at so many things and tried so much. Thanks again
I do not sell earobics but will try to work out how we can do that. I got hold of them by going to www.earobics.com. Our local SPELD sell them also. You can phone them on 0894743494.
I sell a downloadable dyspraxic pack which contains a book on dyspraxia and a phonics course and lots of other teaching aids. for $39 i think.(!) Get it from www.dyslexia-testing.com.au and type dyspraxia in the store search engine. The book I sell on dyspraxia is only at present available downloadable.
All the things you are doing are good. Skate boarding is very good also or a wobble board, I tell you how to build one in the book,
If your child is dyspraxic i would expect her to score as positive in both the dyslexia and he dyspraxia tick tests.
There are no schools which properly cater for these kids in Australia, unfortunately, so try not to worry too much if she does not keep up. Just remember that primary education is only actually meant to prepare your kid for secondary and high school is only intended to prepare her for life, so concentrate on life skills.
It is so important to find her strengths and concentrate on them rather than just correcting things that she is not doing well at.
And yes if she is dyspraxic she can improve greatly and live a more or less normal life. My step mum is dyspraxic and she was a maths teacher in a top private school.
I am beginning a maths program for these kids but as you might imagine I am quite busy!
I do offer skype assessments now.
Good luck you are doing very well and are obviously a really good mum.
dawn
January 5th, 2010
We have many e-books available for purchase and download from our main site. Please visit Dyslexia Testing – we hope you find them interesting and informative.
October 20th, 2009
A close friend who is dyslexic phoned up yesterday very frustrated because of ongoing problems he was having filling in a passport application form. It made me realize that the advice I gave him should be posted.
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In response to thousands of requests from frustrated parents of dyslexic children who struggle at school, we are proud to announce the opening of Dyslexic Centre Australia.
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Hi Dawn
Thank you so much for the information. It is all a bit daunting now, I am really concerned about how my son will overcome his Dyspraxia. Do you know if there are any support groups in the Sutherland Shire area in NSW?
Kind regards
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
From what i can find out most of the kids being home schooled in urban areas in Australia have kids who are either dyslexic or dyspraxic. If you want to get to meet other people with dyspraxic kids then get in touch with the home schooling network.
If people could set up self help groups I would fully back and support you all.
CHeers
Dawn
September 28th, 2009
My daughter and son have severe receptive & expressive sppech delays. My daughter has mild Global Learning probs, Auditory Processing Probs. Ihave been concerned that she may have Dyslexia and her speechy thinks there is a good possiblity she does but doesn’t think its worth diagnosing. I would like to know so wondering who or where do we go?? Thanks Toni
Hi Toni,
Thanks for your email. Unfortunately I live in WA but there is a SPELD organization that do testing. www.splednsw.org.au.
If your daughter has Severe auditory problems then this would account for her delay in speech. Also this used, back when i was training in the Uk 35 years ago, be known as Auditory dyslexia. Things have gotton lost in sea of labels nowadays. If she also has big problems in remembering what words look like, an tries to always sound them out or spell them how they sound rather than how they look, then it is very likely that she does.
There is a DVD that helps a kid overcome Auditory processing problems. its called earobics – www.earobics.com . this should help both of them I think. Its important that she does about 15 minutes a day until the course is complete. It teaches kids to listen and discern between similar sounds and hear against a background noise etc. I have found it to help a lot. I find it works best if the kid wears headphones.
Hope this has helped
Cheers
Dawn
September 28th, 2009
I was just looking at one of your documents and wondered why you believe that “Dyslexics, in particular are not able to visualise words”…
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Just wanted to say thank you for helping me understand my daughters. Our girls are 15 (twins) and have struggled all their lives with learning. I never explored dyslexia, because I thought it only meant seeing letters backwards…
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Thank you very much for your response. I heard you on Richard Glover’s Drive programme on 2BL yesterday. If we were to come to you in WA at some stage, what tests would you use to diagnose dyslexia? My son had a diagnosis of dyscalculia but I believe he is actually dyslexic even though his reading is satisfactory. His handwriting and spelling is extremely problematic and always has been (he is 10). If he is to undergo more testing, I would prefer it be with someone who knows what they are doing.
Thanks & regards
Hi,
I developed my test for SPELD here when I wrote the course for TAFE. You have to be dyslexic to do the course since it is targeted for dyslexics. I use that but much more comprehensive. Its not just about diagnosis, its about learning how your kid learns and perceives the world. Once we know how he thinks then we know how to teach him. Unfortunately most testing focuses on the problem and merely identifies that. My testing is solution based. I am looking for the solution not the problem.
Dyslexia is a learning difference so once we can establish his strengths and weaknesses we can develop a teaching program around this.
Dyscalculia merely means that the kid has problems with numbers, its actually Greek for “difficulty with numbers” and as such is not a true diagnosis, in my terms. what you need to know is why he has difficulty with numbers. It could be due to a number of things, including, dyslexia, dyspraxia, Asperger’s Syndrome and other things. All these learning differences need to be taught in a different way from each other.
I am posting details of my assessment on the site soon.
hope this helps
Dawn
September 28th, 2009
I am getting a lot of requests for assessments. I myself charge $200 for a complete assessment and report. I also develop an individual learning program for the pupil and produce a disc with any materials that will be needed for the kid, or adults teaching. My materials are very user friendly and anyone can use them whether a qualified teacher or not.
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