Children with dyslexia undiagnosed

I love the water lawnmower, what a very apt and insightful description. These children really are very special, they see things and can then give them extremely appropriate and relevant names, but in a very simple way. To give an example, when we mated our dog with a neighbouring husky mal cross, we kept a pup as a stud fee. We wanted to call the dog Timber, but there were two other Timber's of a similar type, and so my daughter immediately said "we'll call him Woody". The connection is very obvious, but at the same time very subtle, and Woody became the dog's name.

Yep, its great. And we live 30 mins from the lake district, bonus! ! Beach was good, Even tho my son tried to chase a jet ski ! ! Or a 'water lawnmower' as he calls them, I told them they're there to cut the sea weed! ! Hee, hee. Am having a lazy day today, I've sent hubby off to the Abbey with the gruesome twosome. And no, I didnt notice the grammatical error.

Digsy, you are a tormentor ! Living slap bang in the middle of England, we could not be further away from the sea! It is so hot, I am dripping, although loving the gorgeous weather of course!

I couldn't believe it when I read what I had wrote !! Lol !! I mean "written" !! I pride myself on a good standard of English ... how sloppy can you get ! Your english is fine Digsy, BTW, don't know why you should think otherwise.

Enjoy that beach you lucky thing !!

Well said, and never were truer words spoken. The earlier problems are diagnosed, the earlier they can be if not fixed, then helped. In the long wrong, this will save the LEAs money, but the stupid ignorant people don't see it this way of course.

P.S. I'm only 13. I am very concerned about this and am trying to take action. I hope you all will do the same.
Best Regards to those Concerned,

I think that schools and learning centers should step up to the plate to diagnose Dyslexia before the child enters grade school. If a child has Dyslexia or some other form of a learning disability, but they don't know it until later in schooling years, then that child could end being made fun of and picked on because of their "stupidity", or lack of learning capacity. I know some people who had been the most popular kids in school BEFORE they found out they had Dyslexia, but after, I never heard from them again.
Please, step up and take some time to determine a child's learning capacity before it's too late
Thank you, and regards,

Ah, my brother does that! He hates bad grammer and i'm always getting text messages sent twice, he reckons 'standards have to be maintained'. My spelling and grammer are awful but hey ho I've seen worse! We've been on the beach all day, ooh I love living on the coast!

"They didn't even adhere to the Statement they had wrote !!" It should be "written" not wrote !! Sorry !!

All you can do Digsy is take one day at a time. With such a supportive LEA, you're quids in. With us, we were constantly battling our LEA. They didn't even adhere to the Statement that they wrote !! So it was back to yet another SEN Tribunal to force them to adhere to the Code of Practice and stick to the terms of the Statement. So much time ... both our's, the school's and the LEA's ... was wasted, and of course money too. If they had just accepted right at the start that my daughter had problems and fettled their duty as the saying goes, they would have saved themselves tens of thousands of pounds of tax payers' money, and my daughter would have had a proper education and not self-harmed.

Try not to worry about the future ... it is always a good idea to have a Plan, but from our experience, plans ALWAYS go belly up ... so best thing is not to worry but concentrate on the day in hand.

Thanks for that. And I know which school I want my daughter to attend, my problem is, with the academy being built she may not get in! The LEA are quite good here, we have a review every 3months or so to oversee how shes doing, targets, progress and any worries etc and I am aware she has an excellent statement, for that I am grateful .We also have a lot of support groups here and parents are encouraged to go into the schools with the support of the LEA to discuss what they want for their child so I am optimistic. But there is still that constant nagging worry of what the future holds.

This is exactly what happened with our daughter Digsey. We moved her from a fee paying day school where she was being bullied to a small local school in our next door village when she was 8. She repeated Year 6 so that she was nearly 13 by the time she moved up to the secondary school, but it was still an absolute disaster. As we predicted it would be, although no-one would listen to us. This was when the battle with the LEA started in earnest. It took 4 more SEN Tribunals and 2 years out of school to eventually succeed in having them pay for her to attend a specialist school in Hampshire. Forewarned is forearmed: do your homework now in readiness for the big day ... find out the best school to suit her needs, whether it be fee paying or state, day or boarding, and then concentrate on building the case why this school is the right school for your daughter. You will need expert reports, for instance Psychiatric, Educational etc., for which you will almost undoubtedly have to pay, your GP is unlikely to want to fund these. I will contact Site Admin and see if he is willing to pass on to you my email address so that we can talk privately as it were. My husband and I are experts in doing battle with the Authorities on behalf of my daughter ... we are still battling for her rights as I type ... and we may be able to help you, even if only with moral support ! We were actually praised by the SEN Tribunal for our dedication and tenacity in making the LEA fettle their duty, something previously unprecedented apparently.

The problem is its a very small school and they have there full capacity of special needs kids. So many who need this kind of setting are badly let down. Its secondry school im dreading, they're closing 3local schools and building an academy. So what happens to our kids? They couldnt cope! Their is a sec school on the island which is good with special needs but with that is the fear it will become oversubscribed because all the parents will want their kids in that school. The special school my son attends is also on the island and thats overfilled already! There is a fear thats its going to become known as 'disability island' if the academy goes ahead, we don't know what the future holds, all I ask is that my children can be educated in a safe secure environment without the fear of bullying or harm.