help for the dyslexic child
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31/08/2007 13:14 - Special Needs
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Send me an email to john@neuron.ie and I will send you a report written for parents. It coves cognitive skills langauge development, assessments and so on. It is a good starting point and will help you ask the right questions.
regards
John
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31/08/2007 14:41 - Special Needs
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Thanks John will do.
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14/02/2007 17:54 - Special Needs
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my son who is 8 has just been diagnosed with dyslexia and i am keen to discover how best to help him has anyone out there some books to recommend or perhaps somethings that have worked for other parents.....all help appreciated thanks
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06/06/2007 07:15 - Special Needs
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Suzy,
I do have a commercial interest here. You will find lots of information on dyslexia on our website
http//:www.neuron.ie
I hope that helps.
John
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06/06/2007 15:40 - Special Needs
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Hi Suzy, why not contact the dyslexia association, their website is www.dyslexia.ie I´m sure they could give you plenty of useful advise, I know they were a great help to my sisters friend who´s son was also diagnosed with dyslexia at 8.
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07/06/2007 20:37 - Special Needs
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many thanks to all of you who have taken the time to write my son is now progressing well and since his diganosis has been recieving extra help at school this has made an amazing differance to my little boy who is slowly returning tho the confident young man he once was i can see that the stress and pressures of school which were causing him such difficulty are now not so bad and that his frustrations are somewhat eased i would urge anyone who has a child showing signs of dyslexia to get help talk to the teachers (not always easy to get them to see the problems but persist you know your own child) get a professional assessement if at all possible and give your child every oppurtunity to be the best that they can be reading and writing might never be my sons strongest persuits but who cares as long as i can see that smile on his face and know that he feels he is the best thats good enough for me
suzy3
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06/06/2007 11:27 - Special Needs
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There is a Dyslexic Help Centre in Limerick that will give you all the information and handouts you need to know and they are exceptionally professional, but I dont have their phone number. I will try and locate it for you and will post it on thread if I do. My son is dyslexic and was not diagnosed till Secondary and my goodness all thru Primary We were told he was not not listening, but thankfully my own intuition eventho I knew nothing about it at the time there again my intuition told me there was something wrong as he hated writing and reading on only read one book and he is now 22. But my goodness if the teachers at the time were ignorant to it and I did all the research my self but unfortunately there is a lot of help out there now which unfortunately was not there for my son and created a lot of problems with his attitude in school becuase of not being able to understand the writing and he found every trick in the book to avoid anything that had to be done in writing or reading.. He is now a very Intelligent Intuitive Gentleman now as is a qualified Stone and Bricklaying but I do think if the help was there for him he would have gone to College and he is such a Bright Young Man and what he sees visually he remembers so well and it such a different personality since he has left school. I am glad there is help there for you now and I will get you more sites that are interesting as I have a friend I am doing a Diploma Course with and his son is Dyslexic also and is quite young so whatever info I can get from him I will pass it on. The main thing is dont panic or get stressed but make sure his needs are met within the school and there is a qualified teacher that understands it. It is one thing knowing about it but for the child is is vital he is understood and helped.
Wishing you the best of luck as they are the Brightest and most Intellectual People in the world and have great visions is guided in the right direction.
I hope this will help you and your son.
Good Luck and I wish you both well, but if you ever need to contact me my email address is margaretmos@eircom.net
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06/06/2007 11:38 - Special Needs
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Richard Branson is one that comes to mind being Dyslexic and now look at the how he was treated at school. Show it goes just because you don´t fit into the square academic Educational Box you are not meant to feel Intelligent. but my god he proofeed them wrong and there are many more that I wish people would know about and I am getting a blank now on their names but I will post them. on the thread when I get them.. that should encourgage al those BRIGHT INTELLIGENT DYSLEXIC out there that you have a SPECAIAL GIFT AND U ARE UNIQUE.
REGARDS
Mairead
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31/08/2007 11:29 - Special Needs
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Hi
I agree with the last post,the DAI have a news letter and actually a seminar comming up soon, it is only every three years so I´m definitely going to that to find out anything I can really. My dd has just recently been diagnosed also.I would also like to know is there any particular schools for secondary that will meet her needs???? I´d appreciate any feed back.
Thanks alot in advance
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31/08/2007 12:00 - Special Needs
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There are a few specialist full time reading schools. The Department of Education website has a list.
Do you know the underlying factors behind the dyslexia? I mean is it a language issue, a processing issue, problems with sounds, attention and so on. If you know this then you know where to direct the intervention. A speech and language therapist or a educational psychologist specialising in dyslexia can help or a reading specialist.
Regards
John
www.neuron.ie
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31/08/2007 12:29 - Special Needs
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Hi john
God,I don´t know ,where will I look on the assessment??? Everything seems to be very high except the reading,blending, I´ll have a look at the reading schools didn´t know about them!!! In fact I know nothing.
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16/09/2007 17:58 - Special Needs
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Is your child going to get l/support??Ask the school. Try to get in into the DAI workshops. John what is the cost of the neuron??
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17/09/2007 07:04 - Special Needs
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Kincora,
we charge Euros250 per month with a once-off set up fee of Euros175. This covers 20 hours tuition, assessments, weekly progress reports, in-centre consulations, telephone support and interventions. Now we are supplying the schools at a fraction of this cost. We train the teachers and do the reporting and the teachers do the interventions as part of their class. This is proving very successful.
thanks
John
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09/05/2008 18:32 - Special Needs
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We have also just been told our 7 year old son is dyslexic. We had his assessment done in his school.The lady from NEPS recommened we send our son to a reading school. Both myself and my husband are so worried the affect it will have on him, taking away from his friends he has been with since he started school. We know it is the best thing for him though very worrying.
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26/05/2008 21:04 - Special Needs
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Hi,
Yes this is a worrying time - my son turned 8 last September.
He had been diagnosed with dyslexia in May 2007. We were lucky enough to get him a place in a reading school. This is the best thing we have ever done. He is in a class with children with the same difficulty and he has improved so much. His confidence had taken a battering and he is now back to being a confident,happy boy who is making huge efforts to read. He has made new friends.
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01/02 00:09 - Special Needs
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I was also advised to send my dyslexic daughter to a reading school, we decided against it as her self esteem was quite low and I thought taking her out of a school she loved and away from her friends would be more traumatic. As it turned out, it was the right decision for her.
She has a reading age 2 years behind her actual age.
The first thing we did was sort out what resource was available at school, secondly, enrolled her in dyslexic workshop (DAI),thirdly, did alpha to omega and toe by toe with her and during her summer holidays sent her to the Davis correctional course.
She was diagnosed in third class at the age of 9, she is now in 6th class and getting ready to sit her entrance exam for senior school. Her Christmas exam results were all in the high 70 %s
I don´t regret not sending her to reading school, you will know your child better than anyone and know what feels right for them.
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