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Shanna Duck
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Date Posted: 09:18:44 08/25/11 Thu
Hello, everyone. I'm really hoping to find some support and answers here.
My daughter (9) is a Russian adoptee. She's exciting, active, intelligent, extroverted, LOVES dogs, and is VERY verbal...but she shows symptoms of dyslexia (trouble sequencing numbers and letters, omitting words, changing words, letters and numbers jumping around, etc.) She CAN read at grade-level, but reading is very tiring for her. She is also doing a pretty good job memorizing the multiplication tables, but she still has problems sequencing numbers 1-10, and sometimes can't remember simple addition facts. Some days are worse than others. She had surgery for crossed eyes, and her ophthalmologist ( a well-known pediatric ophthalmologist in the area) has assured me she has "good vision." He did not even find a problem with eye tracking, although I feel that there may be one.
We've always home-schooled her and I've always known there was something a little different and tried to find answers, creative teaching methods and eye exercises, but I found very few people who would help us in our rural community. In addition, I have a chronic pain/intense fatigue condition that limits extensive travel.
There are so many programs, books, training-courses, etc. and there's no way for a lay-person to know which would "work best" or if any of them are complete nonsense. I've heard that the Scottish Rite program is VERY good but expensive. Going to Dallas for a one-time assessment would be an option.
I know that some of you have been thorough what we're going through right now: trying to find solid answers.
I would appreciate any advice you can send. Remember that we live in a very rural area without pediatric-neurologists and other specialists like that.
Thank you in advance.
-Shanna Duck
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