Struggles with Dyslexia

[kiwi hunter]

As long as you explain the reason she can handle it. Life is about making money to pay for the things we need and with her bent towards math im sure she will do well.
Chin chin

 

[Gellar]

I get the privilege of doing a monthly presentation for adults with disabilities and taking a smaller group of them fishing 2 times a year. A few years ago when I advanced in my job title I stoped doing most presentations and taking groups out, but I chose to keep this group because they are truly special. I mean that in the utmost respectful way. They have all levels of disabilities both cognitive and physical. But they are always excited to participate and even more excited when they succeed. Like others have said listen to the resources you have, but don’t be afraid to question them. Listen to your daughter, love your daughter and fight for her. You are in for an at times very stressful road but a highly rewarding road.

 

[redhaze]

I work as an educational diagnostician in TX. There is a lot of good advice on this thread - make sure the accommodations of text to speech and speech to text are available in all classes, even electives. The identification of dyslexia as learning disability is evolving as are the programs to help students handle it. Good luck to a wonderful girl.

 

[Wild Bill]

Good luck to your daughter and your family as you work through this. Great work advocating for your daughter and looking for solutions and help.

My wife and I are currently working through the process/appts to have our oldest son diagnosed with what we are fairly certain is hyperlexia. The other side of dyslexia. His brain picks up patterns and recognizes words, patterns, etc. very quickly. He taught himself how to read at 2 years old. By 4 he was doing multiplication and division in his head. Very strong memorization skills. I thought for a while he had a photographic memory. He is very bright, but the condition also presents challenges with social and emotional delays and such. It can be frustrating at times, but we keep challenging him and working with on what he needs help with and we're making strides.

Keep up the good work and best of luck!

 

[BenP]

Good luck to your daughter and your family as you work through this. Great work advocating for your daughter and looking for solutions and help.

My wife and I are currently working through the process/appts to have our oldest son diagnosed with what we are fairly certain is hyperlexia. The other side of dyslexia. His brain picks up patterns and recognizes words, patterns, etc. very quickly. He taught himself how to read at 2 years old. By 4 he was doing multiplication and division in his head. Very strong memorization skills. I thought for a while he had a photographic memory. He is very bright, but the condition also presents challenges with social and emotional delays and such. It can be frustrating at times, but we keep challenging him and working with on what he needs help with and we're making strides.

Keep up the good work and best of luck!

I will say that sometimes people think being super smart makes things easier but (don't take it as bragging) I know for myself that sometimes I wish I was dumber. Sometimes the pressure of people always having that expectation that you can't fail or should always be right can be stressful, and socially can make things difficult.

There is a Bible verse that I have always felt relates to me.
“The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow.”
‭‭Ecclesiastes‬ ‭1‬:‭18‬ ‭NLT


WildWill, you're doing great with all your kids and you too Wild Bill. Learning early how the kids are, make things easier to understand going forward and to give them the best chance of success.

 

[WildWill]

I appreciate all the advice, words of encouragement, and those who shared their similar struggles. Made me feel much better about everything especially the prospects for the future. I'll probably bother a few of you in the future for some advice especially about the tutoring.


Thank you!

 

[brymoore]

Hunt Talk needs a support emoji.

 

[recon6036]

My now 29 y.o. Son was diagnosed with Dyslexia at an early age. If you read him something, he’d absorb it like a sponge, but if he had to read/comprehend something on
his own, it would take him forever and he’d fail miserably.
We hired a tutor who specialized in Dyslexia and also enrolled him in Orton Gillingham, which was available where we lived.
In school he’d get one on one attention for anything he needed to read/comprehend.
Over the years he learned strategies to cope and functions very well now in a profession where he has to write a lot of reports.

 

[Handlebar]

@WildWill , My son was diagnosed during his third grade year. If I remember correctly the assessment scale went from 1-5 mild to extreme, my son was ranked a four. The educator who handled this stuff told me that she would have him reading at a high school level when he got to high school, she was a proponent of a system developed by another educator called the Barton System. it is series of lesson that the student is taught. It takes some time. The lady who was responsible for teaching my son told me that she would have him reading at the apporiate grade lschool cel when he got to high school.When he was retested his junior year he was reading at a college level. The Barton system worked for my son

 

[MNElkNut]

Make sure she knows she has other skills others don't have. If there was a thing called dislexhorseia, I would have it. Horses and me just don't connect. Sounds like she is on her way to having great horse skills. Point is, everyone has their very own set of skills and weak points.

Yeah, horses. They are evil beasts.