In Reply to: AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHH!!!!!! sm posted by Estelle on March 08, 2006 at 08:29:05:
: Okay, now that you need to have your hearing checked...and for that I'm very sorry, but....
: I am sooooooooo frustrated with Trey right now!!!! Not only that, but his TEACHER is frustrated with him, too!!
: Reading has ALWAYS been a challenge for him, always, always, always, always....however, he is also improving, but the fact that he backslides in this ONE SUBJECT has me and his teacher at a total loss.
: Trey has trouble focusing or concentrating when it comes to reading. He exhibits some "classic symptoms" of ADD/ADHD when it comes to READING, but at no other time. He's basically a well-behaved little guy, and he is capable of paying attention to anything else that is going on, but when it comes to reading, he's a to-tal-ly different student.
: When he tests for reading, he comes up with the strangest answers the first time he reads, but when the teacher gives him the test again, he gets them all right with no prompting from the teacher. He reads them to himself during "real test", but she has him read aloud the second time.
: It is like I've told her before, he has ALWAYS been a more auditory learner. He easily picks up whatever he hears. I, on the other hand, was always a visual learner, easily picking up on things that I see. Lately when he's reading aloud with me, though, he's stumbling around, and I've noticed that he either deliberately misses his letters in words (therefore strange pronounciations), or he'll overlook words. It seems deliberate, but I don't think he is being intentional, I just think his brain really doesn't see these words or letters the first time around, but he'll get them the subsequent times around.
: Is this some kind of learning disability anyone is aware of and can tell me anything about?? For some reason, I'm not getting outright dyslexia out of this, but maybe some form of it?
: Any ideas to help him w/o resorting to medications?