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Topic: The "Dyslexic Gifted Child" anyone heard of such?

#	Author	Message
11	Kar2oonMan Wed 5/21/2008 1:01p	(oops -- watch for the overall message, not the advertisement part!)
12	ajnhollysmommy Wed 5/21/2008 1:36p	My son has struggled with reading and spelling also. He is in 2nd grade and is just now reading at a 1st grade 5th month level to a 2nd 3rd month level. He has a reduced spelling list. All other school work is above average. If someone reads it to him he gets 100% so his comprehension is high also. We tried to get him tested at the school but scores to high to get any extra help one trick we learned when talking to a resource teacher is get different color dry erase pens. Each letter of the spelling word gets a different color and let him study those. We also let him write them this way. I also found that if I give him the spelling list he likes to "write" them on his DS game in the chat part. That is how I give him his practice test every Thursday now.
13	DVC_dad Thu 5/22/2008 5:08a	wow thank you all so much. Its been an emotional rollercoaster the past two weeks. I'm going to spend a couple of hours today following up on all of these suggestions. I've also talkedtohalf a dozen other parents of dyslexic kids who have successfully "remediated" their kids back into main stream. We'll see.
14	christiemarsh88 Thu 5/22/2008 7:27a	I went to school with a girl who was dyslexic. I'm not proud to say it, but when we were in elementary school and junior high, we all gave her a hard time. She didn't seem very "smart" to us. (wow, little kids can be cruel.) I say this to give first-hand warning about the problems a dyslexic child might face in the public school system. That's not to say that your son will face the same attitudes, and I sure hope he doesn't. One of the most important things that I think you could do for your son is to see if his teacher could do a little "crash course" on dyslexia for the other students in the class. It would surely help the other students understand why your son may have trouble with different things than they do. I hope my limited experience is helpful to you. I'm sure that your son will do well in whatever environment you decide is best for him. Best wishes for you and your family.
15	Lady Starlight Thu 5/22/2008 8:09a	DVC , (this is sopersonal and deep for me and I'm bravely opening up with this) I have Dyslexia, have mild OCD AND have ADD on top of it. ( wich explains alot when you get to know me LOL) Seriously though, it effected my lfe when I was a child tremendously whenit came to schooling, but as an adult now I have come to terms with who I am and what I have and I have learned how to learn things I never thought I could as long as I had people who had patience with me and who tried to understand what was going on with me. thats a BIG thing when your dealing with this. We just learn differently is all but we still learn. and some of us ( not me though lol) are genius!! your son sounds like an amazing human being. with knowing what he has and how to help him deal with it , is a HUGE step in helping to understand him and how he works . I have SOOO incredibly much going on in my head about this, I just can't post it all. If you need me, I'm just an email away!
16	alexbook Thu 5/22/2008 9:28a	Just reading back through this thread and realized I made a big typo in #9: I meant "aren't" when I wrote "are." Anyway, sounds like you're getting lots of good support, which is probably even more important than good advice, if you know what I mean. Hang in there.
17	mater4 Thu 5/22/2008 5:37p	DVC my husband was diagnosed with dyslexia in grade school. He recieved extra help from his teacher and taking one of those special needs class. By junior high or high school he was no longer in the special needs class. Today he is very successful in law enforcement and has many awards/promotions from doing his job well. He always says that he was able to get through the tough times because no one gave up on him. So with hard work and determination and support I believe your son can get through this difficult time. Oh and Bill Gates is also dyslexic. :)
18	chickendumpling Thu 5/22/2008 10:09p	Back as promised. Don't you just love LP? Such good posts! 2oony's link is just awesome. So to your initial post... <<can someone please share some success stories...>> Aside from the wonderful personal ones already shared by LPers, here's a link of same famous folks with dyslexia (including Walt Disney) http://tinyurl.com/5huovd Go on. Click on it. It will only take a second to scan. You will be surprised by the list. A not-so-quick excerpt from a Fortune article reads as follows; "Consider the following four dead-end kids. One was spanked by his teachers for bad grades and a poor attitude. He dropped out of school at 16. Another failed remedial English and came perilously close to flunking out of college. The third feared he'd never make it through school--and might not have without a tutor. The last finally learned to read in third grade, devouring Marvel comics, whose pictures provided clues to help him untangle the words. These four losers are, respectively, Richard Branson, Charles Schwab, John Chambers, and David Boies. Billionaire Branson developed one of Britain's top brands with Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic Airways. Schwab virtually created the discount brokerage business. Chambers is CEO of Cisco. Boies is a celebrated trial attorney, best known as the guy who beat Microsoft." Encouraging? You can find the entire article here: http://tinyurl.com/yj7d7h You also asked for something that would <<...give us some hope.>> YOU, my friend, have hope. Okay, homework time! :) Psalm 55:22; James 1:5; Philippians 4:6; Romans 8:28; Proverbs 3:5-6; James 1:2-4; Hebrews 4:15-16; Jeremiah 33:3. <<We have found a school that we can send him to *** Does anyone have any experience with this approach?>> I don't. Sorry. I don't have any experience with dyslexia. But, I do have experience with giftedness and have learned that "special needs" are "special needs" and no one will ever be a better advocate for your child than you. To that end, I can only help support you in learning everything you can about it so that you can know that you did your level best. You have already done so much! I know you probably don't feel like that right now but when do we, as parents, *ever* feel we've done "enough" for our children? There is so, so much more I want to share with you but I am out of time (and this post is waaaaay too long anyway). I will close by saying this, dyslexia is viewed by many as a gift. I wish I had time to explain but I don't so here is an excerpt from a book you may find helpful: "The mental function that causes dyslexia is a gift in the truest sense of the word: a natural ability, a talent. It is something special that enhances the individual. Dyslexics don't all develop the same gifts, but they do have certain mental functions in common. Here are the basic abilities all dyslexics share: 1. They can utilize the brain's ability to alter and create perceptions (the primary ability). 2. They are highly aware of the environment. 3. They are more curious than average. 4. They think mainly in pictures instead of words. 5. They are highly intuitive and insightful. 6. They think and perceive multi-dimensionally (using all the senses). 7. They can experience thought as reality. 8. They have vivid imaginations. These eight basic abilities, if not suppressed, invalidated or destroyed by parents or the educational process, will result in two characteristics: higher than normal intelligence, and extraordinary creative abilities. From these the true gift of dyslexia can emerge -- the gift of mastery. The gift of mastery develops in many ways and in many areas. For Albert Einstein it was physics; for Walt Disney, it was art; for Greg Louganis, it was athletic prowess." Here is the link to that book (The Gift of Dyslexia) http://tinyurl.com/3p78fu Finally, I know Hoagiesgifted.org can be an overwhelming site but trust me on this one - it is well worth the investment of time. Please keep us posted as you are comfortable. We care about you and will be thinking of you all. And, if it's okay with you, I'll keep researching with you and post what I find helpful. Take care and I will check back into LP as soon as I can.
19	davewasbaloo Thu 5/22/2008 11:01p	Chickie D - you are awesome ((((hugs))))
20	bloona Thu 5/22/2008 11:52p	Hi Chris, glad that you have a very thorough diagnosis now, so the only way is up! wow, well done with the IQ result, wow again---thats wonderful, and well done for following this through and chasing after a diagnosis. Have they tried the coloured acetate sheets I mentioned they use here in the UK to help reading?

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