[senco-forum] b d confusion

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

Link b to B as many children use this to avoid the issue. B is 2 blobs, b 
has the top blob missing. Set off to write B but lift your pen and air write 
the top blob then complete the bottom blob.
Link d to a as they are formed in the same way
"add a d "is good. Start to write a then go up the stick "adding " the d 
bit. So hard to explain in words.
Curl index finger down to thumb to form a circle on both hands Keep other 
fingers straight up. You have made b...d.
Lift them to your eyes and say b..d eyes! ( beady eyes).Useful for older 
kids as they can form the shapes under the desk to check. You read your b..d 
like any word, left to right.
For p, sorry but the pee goes down to the loo!
Gill Gray
----- 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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