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    katebee #120110 01/16/12 06:02 AM
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    Thanks so much, Grinity smile.

    Apologies for the delayed reply; we have been travelling and then getting over the associated jet lag!

    We've been playing the game with the letters. Not ds' strongest suit(!), although he immediately cottoned onto the fact that he didn't want to go first as then he could simply add prefixes onto whatever word someone else came up with!!

    We have a further appointment with the developmental optom tomorrow so we'll see how that goes smile. I'd be interested to know any specific tests that are good at picking out 2e kids with potential dyslexia, if you have any ideas? Looks like I'll need a label to get any help at school...

    Thanks again for all the pointers smile.

    Hope you're well :),
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    katebee #120253 01/18/12 07:10 AM
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    Originally Posted by katebee
    We've been playing the game with the letters. Not ds' strongest suit(!), although he immediately cottoned onto the fact that he didn't want to go first as then he could simply add prefixes onto whatever word someone else came up with!!
    Welcome home!
    Hope you had fun while playing that little game, making it fun is right where you need to be right now. Good for him and his fluid reasoning for figuring out the prefix trick. Even that is good for mental-muscle flexing, afterall, one can't just stick a un- in front of every word, so eventually he'll use up all the prefixes. As he gets stronger at it, you can try insisting that he go first 1/5th of the time, etc.

    Try the other tricks, take notes (secretely) and let us know how they went - we'll come up with more ideas to tease out what is going on.

    I really don't know anything about dyslexia, but it sounds like it's worth a try to contact several folks who help kids with dyslexia to take a look at him and teach you what they know. I would suggest that you plan to talk to 3 before you even thing about if you should hire one to work with regularly. If you are lucky, one of them will be flexible enough to see that a kid with a super high IQ can still have dyslexia.

    For now though, see what the developmental op says and decide to work with her/him or not and keep working those strengths!

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    Katebee you are jn Australia right? I trotted my DD around various places in 2011 trying to get a formal dyslexia diagnosis. I got nowhere fast.

    Last week I took her for an aspergers assessment with a specialist speech pathologist / pscychologist early development team (they are authorized by Medicare to diagnose autism). We got to the end and they declared that there was no question she was dyslexic (not why we were there) but they couldn't decide yet on the aspergers and will need to observer her at school.

    I think in Australia a developmental speech pathologist (not therapist) is possibly your best bet for a dyslexia assessment. I would try calling a few and see what you think after chatting to them. They were certainly more use to us than the very expensive neuropsych who just waffled a lot.

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    Thanks for this, MumofThree smile

    Out of interest you're not in WA are you? Was thinking of checking out your Speech Pathologist if you were!!

    Will definitely look into it.
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