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
6 comments 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
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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 wondering if you offer any assessing of children whereby you issue a report outlining any learning difficulties?
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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
8 comments 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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My daughter is 5 yo and just started preps. She is having reading difficulties she knows all her alphabet but does not get the sounds of letters and putting them together to pronounce the word therefore she is falling behind in the classroom we are doing extra work at home with her but she is having difficulties with her phonics. Do you have any suggestions for me or where can can get help
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We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.
And why is it that writers write but fingers don’t fing, grocers don’t groce and hammers don’t ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn’t the plural of booth beeth? …. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which, of course, isn’t a race at all) …
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