Help is this dyslexia??

Take a look at the following article it might be helpful.

Spatial Relations and Learning by Carol Stockdale & Carol Possin, Ph.D.

“Examples of spatial relationships are the location of one’s seat in the classroom, the space between people in a line, the arrangement of items in a locker or a desk, and the layout of a publication or letter. It is also the order of letters in a word and of words in a sentence; it is the ordering of events in a schedule for a day or a week; it is the length of an hour; it is the pauses in a stream of language marked by punctuation; and it is dividing 25 by 5.

Spatial relations include qualities like size, distance, volume, order, and time. “

http://www.blarg.net/~building/spneeds_arkspatial.html

Helen

because, by definition, dyslexia means difficulty learning to read.

It actually sounds more like nonverbal learning disorder (NLD or NVLD). NLD kids tend to have superior reading, spelling, and rote memorization skills but great difficulty with visual-spatial relationships and math. You can find out more about NLD, to see if she fits that pattern, at http://www.nldline.com, http://www.nldontheweb.org. and at the “LD in Depth” section of this website.

Mary

Check the information on visual-spatial learning styles on the Gifted Development website at http://www.gifteddevelopment.com/

Your daughter is exhibiting a profile that is common to many highly gifted children, who can be very strong with tasks requiring global thought processes, but have difficulty in with sequential learning.

This website is very informative, my older add/inattentive son has been shown to be a visual-spatial learner(not necessarily gifted) and I found the characteristics list very interesting as it helped me to understand a little better how my son learns. Appreciate the new insight.