--- 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



she is proubly dysxelic, i did not find out untill i was sixty years
old becose i did not write backwards. for my first sixty years i was
just stupid. i stayed in at recass, stayed after school, or got my
ass beat many times for being lazy, and stupid.

snakenavel
> 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