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To: luckystarmom

Ah, so she doesn’t have trouble with writing, she has trouble thinking what to write. My daughter was diagnosed with something similar to that in kindergarten, they just called it a language deficit, though.

I remember when they first tested her, they showed her pictures of things and asked her to name them. The first doctor who tested her said that her intelligence was low because she couldn’t tell him what an antenna (the kind that goes on top of a house)was, but we didn’t have antennae in our town. Then he said that she couldn’t identify a picture of a judge, who dressed in black robes. She could tell him that they sit behind a desk and tell people whether they are right or wrong on tv, though.

Anyway she worked with a speech therapist who had lots of experience working with stroke victims and she has really improved. I actually forgot about it. (she’s thirty, now)

Anyway, if your daughter has no math problems, she can overcome all the other.

My son is almost through his master’s degree. My daughter, who had the language deficit, also has dyscalclia, which is really difficult, numbers have no real meaning for her.


47 posted on 06/24/2008 2:20:32 PM PDT by Eva (CHANGE- the post modern euphemism for Marxist revolution.)
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To: Eva

The savvy speech therapists know what they are doing. My daughter was just tested, and the speech therapist said she thought her scores should be a little higher.

There were a couple of items that my daughter was supposed to identify (maybe a payphone and a record player) that kids don’t see these days.

I remember a friend of mines daughter who was being tested for kindergarten readiness, and her daughter was asked to name what a mop was. Her daughter had never even seen a mop, and didn’t know what it was.


48 posted on 06/24/2008 5:49:35 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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