[senco-forum] b d confusion

If she isn't confusing the sounds then she may be forming the letters

Perhaps cursive script might help as it makes reversals very difficult to do
without conscious effort compared to 'ball and stick' printing.  'Learn to
Write' by Pen Notes Inc is a good cursive writing scheme based on the
D'Neilian script.

Philip EP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Maggie Downie" <maizie2004 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <Olanys at aol.com>; <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2006 10:33 PM
Subject: Re: [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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