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Subject: Re: possible dyslexic student

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geraldine blair (parent of a dyslexic child)

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Date Posted: 03:31:12 12/15/10 Wed
In reply to: Donna 's message, "possible dyslexic student" on 08:51:22 11/13/10 Sat

Hi there, your story is very familiar and I have a suggestion. Ask the child (with a page of small text open in front of him) "are the words below the page, on the page, or above the page?" and if the child says "above the page", ask him "what are the words doing?" and if he says "moving" then it is very important to google 'irlens syndrome'. It is visual dyslexia,where the words will move on the page. My son was diagnosed with it and it DOES exits or occur. Most importantly do not say to the child that this is impossible. It is curable for most with the syndrome. MY son now only has to have blue text and he can read perfect. He had a transparent overlay which was a deep dark blue colour, which kept the text still, and glasses arive in two wks. Up until three weeks ago he couldn't recognize most little letters of the alphabet, now he is speed reading. Two years I have been trying to get him to tell time. Now on a blue clock face with blue letters and blue hands he never gets them wrong - three weeks ago he was diagnosed, and these kids will NOT tell you that the words are moving because they dont know anything different.good luck.IRLENS IRLEN IRLENS IRLENS

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: possible dyslexic student	John Hayes	16:01:16 12/30/10 Thu
Re: possible dyslexic student -- Lillian Fawcett, 06:43:40 01/01/11 Sat