I will definitely try the online version of Dragon for DD--I had Googled
awhile ago and hadn't seen anything about that, and was getting very
frustrated because IMO DD enunciates very well and so I don't understand
what the problem is; Dragon works very well for me.
Dbat, we were told by the folks we consulted with that the reason voice training Dragon most likely was so tough for our ds the first time around is that he watched as he talked to Dragon (while training) and tried to correct each word as it happened. The way we were advised to try this time around is to have ds read a favorite book (using the bluetooth headgear recorder) and to *totally ignore* what is being typed on the screen - instead have the laptop screen turned in the opposite direction while ds reads. He needs to get a lot of words read into the microphone, then he can go back and correct mistakes.
I don't know yet if it will work - we're too buried in homework this week to even try it - but we'll be trying it for sure in a few weeks when school is out for the summer
Also - re the never-ending list of acronyms and diagnoses... I think that what you might be running into is that symptoms of diagnoses overlap - our neuropsych has a Venn Diagram that she used to show us why our ds has symptoms that in his case are due to DCD but in other children are associated with ASD... I think there were three overlapping circles - DCD, ASD/PDD, ADHD... but don't remember for sure. I'll try to find it (someday lol!)... if I do find it I'll let you know. I'm guessing that for your dd, you aren't facing adding another diagnosis, but instead as she grows and as time goes by and as she gets farther along in school, you'll start seeing other symptoms associated with the diagnoses she already has. At least that's how our journey has been so far.
Hang in there!
polarbear
