Hello everyone. I am new to this group and trying to come up with
some answers to why my 11 yr old daughter has such difficulties in
school. with reading that i have done, i think she might be dyslexic
but not sure. hoping I can learn from people that more experience
than I. she is 11 yrs. od and just finished 5th grade. she has
difficulties with reading comprehension it is pretty bad, I think
she is a few years behind her peers in this area. not sure if
dyslexia because she doesn't write backwards. but she does have a
hard time expressing herself or even just asking questions from me
that she usually will give up trying to ask me. she gets all her
words mixed up and can't get her point across. she also has a
problem in math with place value of numbers. i just learned this the
other day. she was in her first yr of private school this last yr
but since she failed reading, i pulled her out and am going to
homeschool her to help her. I had her take a placement test for math
and she got all the problems wrong that she had to read the number
and write it on paper. example: write out three hundred thousand,
two hundred and fifty six,. my daughter could not write out the
number correctly. all those types of problems were wrong. but she
could do it no problem if it was in the reverse. anyway, she shys
away from doing things infront of others and has come home with many
stomach aches over the years. Even following directions are hard for
her. always have to repeat myself .it seems that her thoughts get
stuck in her head and she can't get them out. it seems there are so
many learning disabilities that are connected that not quite sure
where to go. have another child who just finished 1st grade and
seems he is following in his sisters shoes. any advise or info. on
dyslexia would be greatly appreciated. thanks