Dyslexia, full disclosure?

poetgrl
Wed, 05 Oct 2011 10:25:49 +0000

amtc-- we have the same daughter.

One of her science teachers in junior high became fascinated with her complete auditory recall and asked us if he could have it tested. He couldn’t believe the way she recalled everything everyone said when she appeared to be paying no attention at all. He told us it was nearly 99.9%. Of course, living with a teenager with 99.9% accurate auditory recall does make you a little more careful in your conversations.

My daughter has had very good success with dragon naturally speaking for her writing drafts. She runs this through “read and write” a more gramatically intense spell check than word, and then that through word. She then takes the draft by the writing center at school, and they help her to polish it up. She’s actually gotten much better over the past couple of years, which I understand is common for dyslexics around 20. (it can be done, but God, her planning has to be so much more intense than mine did. No last minute papers for her, as you know.)