Developing a Love of Reading for a Child with Learning Disabilities

My son is a diagnosed dysgraphic.  I've blogged about it before: (Diagnosis: Dysgraphia). He struggles even with the basic concepts of reading.  He gets so very frustrated at the words on the page, because they are absorbed by his eyes, translated in his head, and often come out garbled.  

But he loves books.

He's lucky for the early dysgraphia diagnosis.  Unlike some dyslexics, he can and will be able to read at some point, with practice.  And with some accommodation and hard work, decoding words becomes less of a chore every day.  

Twitter has a new fan

I had a completely different blog prepared for today.  But I was inspired to write something different.

I'm so very new to the Twitter community.  I've been on Facebook for about five years, but my real exposure to Twitter started only a few weeks ago.  My Facebook years have allowed me to stay in touch with people I would not normally have had the opportunity to.  It's also given me entertainment and media bites about my favourite celebrities and TV shows, general news about my local community, funny and viral videos and more cat and baby pictures then I expect people should reasonably be exposed to.

Diagnosis: Dysgraphia - Struggling Against my Ex AND the System

My son was experiencing some difficulties learning to read.  He had been in the same day care since age 1.  When I left my ex he was 2 and a half.  My ex worked 12 hours shifts, and given the extreme tension at the time, I gave in to his request to take my son out of care early on the days he was off.  And then he started to get him there late on the other days.  It was difficult on those days for him to get a consistent amount of time with his preschool teachers.  And there was a lot going on with lawyers and my new daughter and everything else.  I knew there were some issues with his learning.  He could sing the alphabet song but didn't seem to grasp the relationship to written letters.  His teachers pointed to a speech issue - so I arranged speech therapy.  He figured out how to count and seemed to be able to handle basic math.  I was working with him at home on his letter identification.