[senco-forum] b d confusion

If she isn't confusing the  sounds then she may be forming the letters incorrectly.  I have  seen a number of children who start their 'b' or 'd' at the top of the  ascender, get to the bottom and then can't remember which way to  go...If this is the case, you could try teaching her to form tthe  letters properly, concentrating on just one at a time, ('d' starts with  the 'ball', 'b' starts with the ascender) and practising writing the  letter for a few minutes each day, saying the sound of the letter as  she writes it.  However, at her age it is quite late to be trying  to remediate an entreched habit, so she may revert to 'confusion when  she's concentrating more on what she is writing, than how she is  forming her letters

  Maggie

  P.S Aly, my emails to the senco forum keep getting bounced back to me.  I don't know why as it's the same address as usual.  If you don't  get 2 of these, do you think you could forward this to the forum.   I'd be very grateful.

Olanys at aol.com wrote:  If she confuses the sounds, then this could be an auditory processing  
problem and if she confuses them when writing, this can be an  indicator of visual 
processing problems. She may have both if she does both. I  would get to the 
source of the problem to find the best way to help her. If  she has pther 
processing issues she may need referral for APD and/or Irlen  syndrome/visual 
processing testing as these are 2 major causes of reading and/or  spelling issues, 
namely dyslexia. Processing problems are for life and need more  than a 
worksheet or games to sort out, even if the symptom can be sorted  that way.  

Best wishes,
Aly

Chair Auditory  Processing Disorder in the UK/APDUK
www.lacewingmultimedia.com/APD.htm 
www.apduk.org

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