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I have been curious about Diane Craft too. Thanks for posting those pictures. How long does it take for you to do those two exercises - the cross crawl and figure eight? I would love to try her stuff but worry about implementing when I hear that it is teacher intensive. I'm wondering if there are a few things I could start with?
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Well, I'm a licensed counselor and know a decent amount about BPD. People with BPD have a really unstable sense of themselves and who they are - so anytime any someone rejects them or gives them negative feedback, it leads to negative thinking about themselves and often self destructive behavior (ie cutting, suicide attempts). They lack an ability to manage their emotions and can become unstable very quickly. They also have a very strong fear of abandonment and will become emotionally frantic if they believe abandonment (like the ending of a relationship) is likely. Often they experienced some sort of abandonment as a kid. I've heard it said that there is no rage like a borderline's rage. Often borderlines go pretty quickly from idealing people in their lives (viewing them as a hero, the best, etc) to quickly seeing that same person as a villain, with themselves as the victim. Those are things just off the top of my head. I work pt at a college counseling center and we see a lot of these traits in young women.
I will say that BPD is more common in women than men, and in my professional opinion your kids would be too young to receive such a diagnosis or any personality disorder diagnosis. Usually personality disorder diagnoses are not given to anyone under 18. Obviously there are exceptions and I don't know the specifics, but often the changes and emotions that happen in adolescence can have BPD like features without being BPD.
Hope that helps on some level!
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Personally I think there are some kids who just won't learn to read with phonics. I have actually thought this for awhile and feel like it is an unpopular opinion, so I am actually glad to hear a few others think this too.
The Davis method appealed to me a lot because I like idea of using something that played to my son's strengths, not his weaknesses. We currently use the Davis sweep/sweep/spell method of reading with DS7, and we are working through claying all of the "sight" words. He really does learn better by seeing the words and letters as whole objects in 3D, not looking at them in print and breaking them down into individual parts. Our Davis facilitator works with a neuropsych, and both said he shouldn't have any more phonics training, because it wasn't working and he needs to use these methods now. The neuropsych said a lot of kids like him can add phonics back in when they get a little older and further along in reading.
One rather loose theory I've been tossing around is does the Davis method work better for kids with more "visual" dyslexia like my child and maybe the traditional phonics methods are better for the auditory kind? Just something I've been wondering about. I guess the bottom line for me is that if the phonics isn't working, I would stop for awhile or make a change to a more whole language approach.
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At age 7 I would not push too hard. That is still very young. In order to work at developing writing skills you can have him dictate stories/etc to you and you write them down. Also make sure that if he is going to school in the afternoon too that he gets enough break times and chance to be outside and play and have some freedom. Some things come more easily with maturity especially if you are presenting the material regularly and maintaining a love of learning.
Jennifer in PA
Thanks for this. Scribing his stories is a great idea. I think he would feel a sense of pride in seeing them all down, even if I am doing the writing. He has so many great ideas! He's also told me different things he wants to learn about in science and history and I'd really like to follow his lead. Of course we will still do some writing but I don't think I am going to use a formal curriculum at this point.
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Have you read The Gift of Dyslexia by Ron Davis? He talks about how modeling the letters in clay helped solidify them in his mind and stopped some of the visual/perceptual problems. My DS7 did the Davis Dylexia program and it helped a lot. Even if you don't do the program, you might consider browsing through the book and having your son make letters and words out of clay. The plastilina clay is great because you can leave it out and it never hardens. I ordered ours from Dick Blick art supplies. Perhaps the letters in a 3D medium might assist his learning. It certainly couldn't hurt and is something you could try pretty quickly. Even now if my son experiences some confusion with letters (recently it was i and lower case L), if we clay them it gets way better. After he's done he feels them and traces them with his eyes open and closed. Just a different perspective.
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I have not tried these yet, but I have heard good things about City Creek and also Addition the Fun Way (and other books in that series) because they put the math facts in story and picture form. http://www.amazon.com/Addition-Fun-Way-Book-Kids/dp/1883841348/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1331667683&sr=1-1
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Wow that is great! We have our initial VT eval on Friday of this week. This is a very encouraging story!
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I am a brand new homeschooler and could use some advice. I am homeschooling my 7 yo DS who is dyslexic and dysgraphic. I am homeschooling in the a.m. and then he is going to school in the afternoon for "specials" (dual enrollment). I am responsible for reading, math and language arts.
I have his reading and math curriculum prepared, but what should I do about language arts? He is doing handwriting OT at school, as well as a daily handwriting without tears program there. How much should I have him write? Should we work on paragraphs, setence structure, that sort of thing? Should I scribe his ideas? Any curriculum, workbooks or other materials you'd suggest? I just feel kind of lost in this area. FWIW, the writing is a huge reason he doesn't like school and basic printing is a struggle.
I'm also wondering about any physical supports to help writing, like maybe a slant board? Anything else you'd suggest?
Thank you!
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My DS7 is a VSL - also dyslexic and dysgraphic. I also wondered what tests you were referring to that negate dyslexia. My son is a big-time picture thinker. He also had the most trouble with little words that were abstract, with no concrete image associated with them. He would skip them entirely like he didn't see them, or look at them like they were in another language. He recently completed the Davis Dyslexia correction program and those issues are pretty much gone. I am new here so I don't know what this group generally thinks about the Davis theory and method, but so far it is helping my son. Here is a video that I found helpful in explaining picture vs word thinking and how it creates difficulty with those small abstract words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxA_rvSNpx8.
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Hi, I am new here and wanted to introduce myself. My name is Katie and I am planning to start homeschooling my DS7 in a few weeks.
A little background - DS is in 1st grade at public school. He had a pretty good kindergarten year, but about a month or two into first grade, we noticed that he seemed unhappy and would put himself down a lot. He also seemed to pick more fights w/ his younger sister. He has always had difficulty with handwriting and then began struggling with reading. Long story short - we took him for a private neuropsych eval. He was diagnosed w/ dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia and ADD. His overall pattern of WISC scores was very high verbal reasoning (90-99 percentile) and average to low average visual, spatial and processing speed.
I suspected DS had dyslexia for awhile, so I've tried to read everything I could get my hands on. In the process of discovering dyslexia and sharing this info. w/ my father and DH, it turns out they are both dyslexic too - though DH is milder.
DS completed the Davis Dyslexia Correction Program in early February. He really enjoyed it, and his reading level went from a D/E to an H/I. Plus the the guessing, skipping words, and other errors are greatly reduced. It seems as though this method can be controversial, but despite his high verbal skills, my DS thinks in pictures, and this just worked for him.
During our interactions w/ the school to revise DS's IEP, it just became more and more clear to us that although they mean well, they don't understand dyslexa or how to help. Their solution is to give DS more intense instruction of the regular curriculum, via being pulled to the resource room. So after Spring Break, we are planning to homeschool w/ dual enrollment. He will homeschool in the a.m. and go to school for afternoon "specials" - art, music, P.E., etc. I'm planning to continue the Davis methods for reading, do Math U See, and I'm considering Neuronet.
I guess that's about all. I'm looking forward to getting started but am really nervous too. I never thought we would homeschool - but we really do think it is best.
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Okay, we could handle that! Can you say more about how it has helped dysgraphia?