Sounds like dyslexia to me. I wasn't diagnosed until I was in the
fith grade. Get you daughter into testing as soon as possible. I am
still way behind in my reading and will probally never catch up, but
I am now able to compete with my peers in other subjects.

A good site that I found was http://www.iamdyslexic.com, it is run
by a young man named Barnaby Blackburn, who has dyslexia. It was
some good information on it, and will help your daughter find out she
isn't alone.

I also have a very mediocre (and that's being generous) site. Please
feel free to visit it as well.
http://www.geocities.com/williamrobertjr


--- In dyslexiaclub@y..., "daisy92673" <julie.jimenez@c...> wrote:
> 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