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[mommydama]

Luci has an evaluation with the Brain Balance Center (http://www.brainbalancecenters.com/) starting tomorrow. The place is almost an hour away from us in Golden and the eval takes two days, two hours each day, so tomorrow and Thursday are effectively shot as far as school work and general normal life stuff. When I first made these appointments I was extremely hopeful about this place, but I am less hopeful now. Actually, the sinking feeling I have about it is almost entirely financial. I have yet to read a review that says what they do there doesn't work or is a scam, but I have read a lot of stuff about how expensive it is and how badly it is handled (disorganized, bad communication, etc.) So I'm a little worried now. But I have the book Disconnected Kids which teaches you how to do a lot of what they do at the centers, so I'm hopeful I can implement it at home if need be.

She also has a vision screening/consultation on Friday morning. Looking into the possibility that she needs some vision therapy. There is a school of thought that says dyslexia (and its relatives) is caused by tracking and vision problems. So we will see where that goes. I'm not entirely sure I buy into this, but I'm following all leads and going to look into everything.

I've read a significant portion of The Gift of Dyslexia and think it will be very helpful as well.

Does anyone happen to know of an Orton-Gillingham based language arts program that can be done online? Luci really loves doing things on the computer lately and I was thinking that might be a good incentive for her to actually do the intensive phonics work she needs.

Okay...I have to feed the girls. I'm out.

Comments

[kizmet-42.livejournal.com]

There is very likely some connection between eye tracking and dyslexia/reading issues. I have a friend with 2 kids with these issues. Glasses have changed their world.

[viggorlijah.livejournal.com]

Time4learning worked for a while for my kids for phonics reinforcement that's self paced

[lil-irish-lass.livejournal.com]

I have perfect vision, and yet still have the dyscalculia. One brother is quite dyslexic and also has perfect vision, better than perfect actually. However, two cousins and one sister who are severely, debilitatingly dyslexic have or had serious vision problems. So who knows?

One school of thought is that the brain connections go more one side, or one side of the brain is extremely dominant. I'm pretty creative, I think, and my brother is. My sister? Genius-level creativity. One of my cousins is fairly creative, but the other is definitely not. I mean in terms of left-brain versus right-brain.

All interesting none the less. I personally don't think it's a one-size-fits all situation. :)

[aelf.livejournal.com]

Looking into everything makes sense. You don't know what's going to work for your kid.

Though, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to tolerate poor organization very long. Life is difficult enough to manage without someone's poor organization contributing to the chaos.

[sominfun.livejournal.com]

No words of wisdom here, but I admire how you're handling this problem and agree with previous posts you've written about how you are the best person to teach Luci how to overcome this obstacle.