[TheForge] dyslexia OT -- was books

[CGRAF]

Rob Fertner wrote:
> There are different ways of learning; Visual, Aural, Tactile, and Kinetic.
> Most people are various combinations of these types with one being
> predominate. Learning disabilities are when there are significant processing
> problems in one or more areas. Dyslexia is a medical term, in the world of
> education they use the term Learning Disability.
> 
> Rob
> 
Which is largely a funding term, and often times ends up with Deaf, 
dyslexic, emotionally challenged and intellectually deficient kids 
getting lumped together IN a class not just AS a class.

We got lucky and the initial help we received keyed into a speech 
problem that lead to a diagnosis of the dyslexia, while screening our 
child for autism. Actually it was a bit more than a screening. It was a 
full neuro -psyche workup, two full days worth of tests. (Turns out he 
wasn't autistic . The dyslexia was screwing with his ability to 
formulate sentences, and he was just massively frustrated.) Our speech 
therapist and the local university speech and auditory clinic and many 
hours with a tutor , taught him how to work around the roadblocks.

At age 4 he was totally non verbal, at age 14 he is entering a regular 
high school, plays and referees soccer, and holds his own socially with 
my older kids college age friends.

Although he reads at age level, the pace is still glacial.
The decoding process he needs to go through is not as efficient as 
phonics nor as fast as "See and Say".

That medical evaluation was the important one not the educational 
evaluation.
Knowing which devils you are chasing really helps.

Mike Graf