Need to know what’s best for my child

Thanks for much for CARING. When you have a child
that never gives up, you want to keep pushing on also.
Malena is a anxious child, loves being at home with her family, home body, but loves going out also, loves the water, beach.

I did the Tick box ass/ for the 8-13yrs fro Dyspraxia Malena’s score was 19.
I also did the Dyslexia late infant or early primary screening sheet Malena’s score was 12.
I would like to buy the Earobics, do you just google Earobics or do you sell them??, Also what book? can I buy from you??. What info can I pay and download>?? that can help our daughter, you have heard all the therapies we have done, we pay for a teachers aid 2 mornings per week, and private school fee’s. I am a little dyslexic myself, so probably from my genes, is it possible what the Drs say that our daughter has a late matriculation, as she gets older grows up, she will progressing like she is, I know she will always have a weakness in her expressive speech possibly?, but the way she has come this fare, we don’t want to stop trying all we can, as I said we have 6 children, Malena and Samara are our twins, last children, ages of our children 20,18,16,12 and our 9yrs twins, we are doing all we can, but with one child that has learning difficulties it takes up so much time. Malena 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, plus she is doing art lessons, all these things help her confidence, in the past she has needed to do such much sitting, speech therapy for 6yrs, education DVD etc etc etc. Have had her on
Omega fish oil since little, taken her to occupational behavioural optometry, nothing wrong with her eyes, hearing, neuro psychologist, OT, you name it.

Thanks again Dawn, I am NOT Just wanting FREE INFO, I will buy your info, but need to know what is best.

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 Malena is very visual, learns visually, Malena 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

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Support Groups

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

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Dyspraxia Book

Hi Dawn I am having a little trouble logging in, so thought I would go this way. I can not say how greatful I am for your help. Although my 11 year old daughter was diagnosed with dyspraxia several years ago, I really didn’t understand how she saw the world or some of the funny little routines she has like being terrified of the dark. After reading your book, I now have a much better understanding. I read over some of the points in the book with my daughter and she said “That’s me, I’m not weird”. We are now using some of your strategies and things are running much smoother, particularly like giving her a little more time to do things ans say things. Hey the whole family is better organised, as we have just started a new daily routine.

Hi Raewyn.
I am so pleased that I have been able to help. She’s a great kid. keep believing in her.
Cheers
Dawn

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Dyslexia

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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