@anomander This sounds exactly like my D. She is missing easy questions that she clearly understands. I will suggest your pencil trick. @bajamm I think your suggestion about siliently moving her lips is a good one as well. Thanks!
@Knowsstuff I really like the idea of blocking line by line. I’ll pass that along.
@Momof3kidz did the help include medication? I’m not opposed to it, but I would love to find other strategies if possible. Thanks!
Biofeedback with what I sent before works. Been there, done that. I bet your kid is skipping lines and doesn’t even know it. Very common but very overlooked.
@gallentjill, is your daughter in grade school?
https://visualsymptomstreatmentcenter.com
Even email Dr Margolis or his staff. They will find someone in your area. I have sent many patients there with great success. Even taken off meds other doctors put their kids on.
is there any suggestion she has attention issues?
HOW OLD IS THIS DAUGHTER? And yes, I’m yelling because you haven’t answered, and the answers given here might be a little different depending on her age!
I’m guessing 17ish because the OP mentioned that she was going to college next year?
Got it…she is going to college next year. Sorry @gallentjill I didn’t see that reference embedded in your post.
Is this new behavior, or something that has been going on for a while. Is the material more difficult?
Has anyone ever diagnosed attention, executive functioning or memory issues? I would want to know WHY my kid was having these difficulties before I sought a tutor of any kind.
Regarding developmental optometrists and their vision therapy…I guess if it works for your kid…fine… yet there are no evidence based studies that document longterm improvement using this.
I get what you are saying but this is the leading group in Chicagoland area. Most of the doctors that do this in the city or other suburbs use them. Many therapist /teachers refer to them. Many Educational psychologists refer to them.
I am also a doctor and sent both my kids there. I have seen how this works first hand and trust me I was not a believer at first. My daughter was supposed to have executive functioning issues and couldn’t transfer from a blackboard to paper and skipped lines reading etc. Her handwriting was not ledible and couldn’t differ right /left handness. Has Dysvalcula. Borderline Add that she never had. My daughter went through the whole $5,000 educational psychology testing protocol.
Two weeks later of using prisms at home and juggling a ball in a figure eight circle… Her hand writing was 100% neat, and her executive functioning was gone. Very strange but it worked. After a few therapy sessions she could copy off bulliten board and all the other things started to go away. Every teacher wanted to know what we were medicating her with!
I have referred many families that their kids were taken off their Add meds after being treated here…
They also do a lot of more serious issues like CP and mixed with epilepsy etc.
I have a relative who was having a lot of issues as a preschooler and diagnosed with ADHD. His mom sent him to “brain gym,” where he did a bunch of physical exercises instead of taking adhd Rx (his mom is special Ed teacher). The exercises were supposed to help merge the left and right sides of his brain. After a few months of doing the exercises as directed, the young relative settled down and became an excellent student. He’s now in his 2nd year of med school.
HI all. Yes D is in high school. There is some evidence of attention issues which she has been able to navigate around but perhaps should now be addressed. Many of the suggestions here seem right on target. To the poster who suggested that she might be skipping lines, I bet you are right! In any case. Thank you all.