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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You really need to be engage with a learning disabled kid to understand how different they are from non learning disabled kids. I remembered trying to help my DD learn to read in comparison with DS. DS who isn't LD sounded out the words and got progressively better. If he didn't know the meaning of a word he would usually just keep going and either got the idea or didn't worry about it. DD could not sound out words and then remember what word she had previously read. DD jumped all over the page reading different words. DD would read all the words on the page separately and then put them together like a puzzle. If DD didn't know the meaning of a word she would stop and you had to give her a very precise definition. She would then question how that word had anything to do with what she just read.  If there was a picture she would hyper focus on analyzing it. DD would overly focus on aspects that were not in the text. She would not just read See Spot Run. She would then ask why was Spot running? Was someone chasing Spot? Why is there no ground under the picture of Spot running? It looks like Spot is flying but that isn't what the text says. Why is the drawing wrong? It was exhausting.

One of the aspects of ADHD and other LDs is that some areas of the brain develop faster than their peers while other areas develop slower. This can lead to some extreme differences in cognitive skills until they get older and it balances out. Parents who have the time, inclination and education to do a wider range of academic activities with their kids notice these extreme differences quickly. They go fo testing because something is clearly off if DC can do things she should be able to do yet and really struggles in a strange way with things that should be easy for her. [/quote]

Oh my gosh. Truer words were never spoken.  My older daughter is dyslexic and when she was first learning to read, I did not yet know it at the time.  It. Was.  A.  SLOG.  However, I just thought that maybe that was how "normal" people learned how to read (I myself kind of picked up reading like breathing, it just was very natural to me) so I thought that I just had to be patient and realize that it wasn't so painless for the rest of the world. . .this was how regular people (people not like myself) learned to read.  (Fast forward a few years:  we got her tested and yep, she had dyslexia).

But NOW, I am working with her younger sister, and it is amazing to me how quickly she picks things up!!  It just brings home to me how hard, in retrospect, it really was for DD!.   With DD2, it's like a miracle:  she sounds out a word on one page, turns the page, sees it again, and ACTUALLY REMEMBERS THAT SHE JUST READ IT!  She does not have to start all over from scratch, sounding it out again!  She holds it in her working memory! You could literally knock me over with a feather.  She also can hold the story line in her head because she does not have to exert sooooooo much gosh-darn effort just to decode.  So, this enables her reading and comprehension as well, and all the skills work together in synergy: decoding, comprehension, enjoyment of the story.  It really is a beautiful thing.

Lest you think:  well, DD2 must have gotten YOUR reading abilities, PP.  Not so.  Both she and DD1 were adopted, so neither of them got anything from me, biologically.  I believe DD2 is "average" and, it is just astounding to ME personally when my only other experience as a parent was teaching her dyslexic older sis.  [/quote]

NP here with the exact same experience except I did give some genetics to my two. My second (non-dyslexic) is a piece of cake. Knows everything. Makes everything look easy and effortless. It's painful to see our older child compare. He's got a 2e profile, makes c's and I really hope we figure his brain out so he can thrive. It is really a very hard road to walk down. [/quote]

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