Posted by floatingbridge on August 19, 2011, at 10:51:48
In reply to Re: Please keep your fingers crossed..... » floatingbridge, posted by Phillipa on August 18, 2011, at 16:10:07
In some ways, he has better life skills than I do. He is not avoidant and thrives on the company of others.
I know what you mean though. He also has educationalmtherapy that mops up lots of those concerns. His therapist said an interesting thing. She said books will not be his gateway to the world. She didn't say there wasn't a gateway or a world. He's learning to read.
My dyslexic friends (seems I have a few) read quite a bit. But they, the one's I know, are very interesting thinkers. There is the theory that literacy is a relatively new skill for humans. What, a few hundred years old that literacy was emphasized and that the oral tradition has deeper roots.
Dyslexia is an issue with printed words. It interfers with his ability to make the shapes of letters, but not his ability to draw. When he writes, the letters are akward and unanchored. But oddly, he can recognize visual patterns that others miss. So I still don't know exactly what. But it does not interfere with verbal fluency. That's a different function.
I dig a pony.
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