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<blockquote data-quote="Sheila" data-source="post: 173032" data-attributes="member: 23"><p>A pet peeve of mine is non-specific information from professionals. If they don't know what the problem is or if it's outside their area of expertise, they need be up front with the parent and refer the parent to an appropriate specialist. If they do know, the need to give the parent written recommendations for remediation or therapy(ies). Parents nor the school district will know what to do without specific information -- case i point is having difficult child writing 10x each....</p><p></p><p>Dyslexia is a "reading" disability -- much more entailed than just writing letters backwards. The link Sara gave you is helpful. There's more information on reading problems in the Sp Ed Archives.</p><p></p><p>"Write" is also vague. Is it a written expression problem (expressive language), handwriting problem (fine motor skills), or both? To find out, a speech-language evaluation would be needed to identify receptive and expressive language needs; and occupational therapy evaluation would be needed to determine fine/gross motor skill problems.</p><p></p><p>There's also information in the archives on fine/gross motor skill delays and expressive/receptive language delays.</p><p></p><p>You're on the right tract -- keep on keeping on.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheila, post: 173032, member: 23"] A pet peeve of mine is non-specific information from professionals. If they don't know what the problem is or if it's outside their area of expertise, they need be up front with the parent and refer the parent to an appropriate specialist. If they do know, the need to give the parent written recommendations for remediation or therapy(ies). Parents nor the school district will know what to do without specific information -- case i point is having difficult child writing 10x each.... Dyslexia is a "reading" disability -- much more entailed than just writing letters backwards. The link Sara gave you is helpful. There's more information on reading problems in the Sp Ed Archives. "Write" is also vague. Is it a written expression problem (expressive language), handwriting problem (fine motor skills), or both? To find out, a speech-language evaluation would be needed to identify receptive and expressive language needs; and occupational therapy evaluation would be needed to determine fine/gross motor skill problems. There's also information in the archives on fine/gross motor skill delays and expressive/receptive language delays. You're on the right tract -- keep on keeping on. [/QUOTE]
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