[senco-forum] Re: good readers but dyslexic

From: "Stuart Lucas" <lucass at loretto.com>

It's an interesting concept. Is this in the same vein as Eddie Izzard? He 
says, 'I was dyslexic until I met someone who was more dyslexic than me, and 
he said 'You're only partially dyslexic.' There's a lot of rivalry in the 
dyslexic camp, y'know... rivalry with three V's.'

But I prefer Emo Philips' routine about the signposts on the motorway that 
say, "Tiredness can Kill." Now that's a risk.

Brain

>From: "Stuart Lucas" <lucass at loretto.com>
>To: "Jean Hutchins" 
><jeanhutchins1 at ntlworld.com>,<senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
>Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Re: good readers but dyslexic
>Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 16:02:24 +0100
>
>Question !?
>What does 'at risk of dyslexia' mean?
>
>Surely if you think someone is at risk then you assess .. or are people
>bidding their time to see how they develop?
>
>Just wondering as my local primary school has just used this term - so
>popping in to ask them.
>
>I would use it if I had screened them and they are awaiting testing.
>
>Also know about the Snowling results (a wee bit out of date now though?)
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>So is it down to family links and initial tests?
>
>Tks
>Stuart
>
>
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>[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Jean
>Hutchins
>Sent: 03 September 2007 15:44
>To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
>Subject: [senco-forum] Re: good readers but dyslexic
>
>Philippa Boden wrote:
>  >Over the years I have come across a few
>dyslexic pupils whose reading is good and so their dyslexia is masked
>somewhat.  Have you noticed this too?<
>
>Yes. They use context and syntax and their intelligence
>to the utmost, and work ten times harder than others
>and cope until secondary school or even until college.
>
>They are probably good fonetic spellers.
>I wonder if they are the ones who can tell
>that a spelling is wrong,
>even if they do not know what to do about it.
>So they can look it up or ask someone,
>unlike those who do not know if a word
>is right or not.
>
>I could not understand how dyslexics
>could be undiscovered until they got to college.
>Are the schools and parents really that negligent?
>
>Maggie Snowling did research on 'at-risk of dyslexia'
>children in dyslexic families.
>They were like those described above,
>coping better than more severely dyslexic
>family members, going unnoticed,
>but they were identified as dyslexic when tested.
>
>Jean
>-----------------------------------------
>Jean Hutchins, SE Surrey DA.
>RSA Dip SpLD, AMBDA, retired.
>E-mail: jeanhutchins1 at ntlworld.com
>British Dyslexia Association Web: www.bdadyslexia.org.uk
>Also into spelling reform: www.simplifiedspelling.org
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