What is Spelling Dispraxia? 15 y.o. daughter was diagnosed with this but Iwas told it is basically irrelevent as we now have “spell check” and won’t affect her.
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This was a nueropsych independent of the school district so I don’t think she was afraid of having to take responsibility but I am frustrated that I don’t know what it means other than she can’t really spell at all.
Re: Spelling Dyspraxia???
Frankly speaking, I would just ignore the spelling dyspraxia “diagnosis”. It’s pseudo-scientific edu-speak that simply says your daughter is a very poor speller, for reasons unknown to the tester.
My suggestion is to try Sequential Spelling. SS is easy to do and seems to work remarkably well even for hard-core poor spellers. It doesn’t cost much (especially compared to tutoring!) and a lesson typically takes 10 minutes. What have you got to lose?
We are doing one lesson a day 7 days a week year-round in order to get through two books a year. (There are 180 lessons per book and 7 books.) This is the first spelling approach that has worked for us.
Website is http://www.avko.org
Mary
Well… dyspraxia usually refers to motor issues (and it’s a real jargon term, one you won’t find in the American Heritage Dictionary or Merriam-Webster’s, for that matter). So… sounds like this jargon lover is trying to say the message for how to spell words gets tangled up between brain and hand. Or s/he’s just putting interesting terms together to sound like s/he knows something and then telling you it doesn’t matter because s/he doesn’t want to have to be responsible for doing anythign.
WHen school “pros” give consistently vague answers, it’s often because they are terrified that if they actually define a problem, they will be held responsible for *doing* something about it, to provide that “free appropriate public education” that they’re required to provide (but nobody will fund). They don’t want to open the can of worms at all… but it’s pretty pathetic that it’s kids who are being considered cans of worms.