My daughter is dyslexic.

No… no she is not. Dyslexia is not something that comes and goes with glasses. Dyslexic kids can focus just fine but their brains don’t process it correctly. Unless your child has a diagnosis by a trained professional please don’t spread ignorance like this.

:smack: OMG, you just pointed out something I have done most of my life. When given a graphic puzzle, I usually come up with an answer that is different from “the only possible correct answer” and is also usually correct. This stumps the speakers/trainers all the time. I don’t think I am brilliant. I must just be approaching the problem differently.

Back in school, I scored abysmally low on “abstract reasoning” until something fell into place in my brain and I shot to the top of the list. Since then, things have evened out somewhat. I’m not going to rock the world with my thought process, but it’s nice to know I’m not quite as abnormal as my older brother would have me think. :wink:

There was no such thing as dyslexia when I grew up, so even though I was good at reading, a couple of my friends/classmates really struggled, and they were diagnosed as having lower intelligence. And yet, as became clear, they had no such thing, and were very bright at almost everything else (except Maths, but nearly everyone struggles with that).

Years later, when dyslexia was being recognised as a real condition, everything my friends experienced made sense to me, and presumably to them too. They all turned out all right, probably in better shape than me.

Yes she was diagnosed as dyslexic, the glasses help her.

That is quite different than what you posted before. If this is the case, your daughter is dyslexic… period. She is dyslexic when her glasses are off, and she is dyslexic when her glasses are on.

Glasses may help her see the words better, but dyslexia is not a vision issue, it is a mental processing issue. If it helps her though thats great!

Sorry, I don’t mean to jump on you, but I’m sure you understand that for every kid who is professionally diagnosed there are a dozen or so “self diagnosed” kids. Those of us who have fought this fight get really tired of people saying the kid just needs to … Try Harder, Concentrate, Focus, Get Glasses, Pay Attention, Study More, be checked for ADD, Accept that they just aren’t that bright, etc.

Hey, welcome to parenthood. We all suffer from that particular guilt, and it has nothing to do with dyslexia. :slight_smile:

OK, minor nitpick here, but one that’s very important when you’re dealing with someone who is fighting dyslexia. Dyslexics don’t process visual information incorrectly, they process it differently. In the days before the ability to read was commonplace, they probably had an advantage over the rest of us.

Many dyslexic individuals think and learn visually, and apply inductive reasoning. However, not all highly visual learners and inductive reasoners are dyslexic. Just wanted to throw that out there.

Hee hee. That was me, not carnut. The board does weird things with quotes… it’s a bit dyslexic that way.

Dang. I “corrected” something into being wrong. Never change your answer! Sorry…

Thanks Sattua. I didn’t remember typing that bit. And that’s not a lysdexic problem. :wink:

A nit well picked… I agree completely. It was a bad choice of words on my part.

I teach high school English. Several of my students have dyslexia, and I have to say that this is one place where technology has really made a positive difference. See what aids your school district has available and what works for your daughter - remembering that kids with dyslexia are just like all the other kids: different. She will still have a harder row to hoe than many of her classmates, but things are better than when we were kids.