Overall good list, except.... reads and rereads without much comprehension is not true of all dyslexics, or in all situations. For instance, for a gifted dyslexic, who struggles with word-level accuracy/ decoding and misreading similar looking words, they may score above grade level on in-context/longer passages that tend to be grade level or below in language arts reading tests. They may use their reasoning ability to compensate for word-level difficulties. My son was professionally diagnosed twice with dyslexia (because the school refused to believe it since he had a gifted IQ--ref Stealth Dyslexia), and had all of the typical warning signs and symptoms, except the comprehension issues after he learned to read after the second half of third grade, so the school wrote on his SLD/ gifted IEP has a strength in reading, (??!!) due to his ability to compensate in reading comprehension tests. Also, I take issue with the procrastinator comment-when school is painful, and the work is all wrong for them, its more like avoidance of pain than procrastination. And, same with time management issues--if you cant tell time on the typical analog clock (think about left/right and up/down issues to understand why), and dont know how to do the work, and dont know how long it will take you to do something you dont know how to do, and when reading and writing takes you much longer than classmates, Im not sure that can be called time management issues. Our kiddos get so many negatives attached to them, that have more to do with not understanding their challenges, and schools REFUSING to address them, and I just get tired of them being compared to average children for which schools design their curriculum, and then call them achievers, because the curriculum is perfectly suited for them to learn the way they learn best, unlike our kids.
Posted on: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 20:43:42 +0000
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