I am not sure if this is in the right place or not, its serious to me, but the staff may think its better fitting elsewhere. I mentioned before that I suspected that my daughter might have a learning disability. It was all but confirmed by the district resource specialist today, we just need the psychologist to sign off on it after one more test. The specialist seems to think that more then likely her problem stems from an auditory processing disorder, but I can't find anything that really explains it in plain old English. Does anyone here have experience with this problem, or know anything about it at all? I really need help. I am really upset right now.
If any of this on wikipedia is true... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder Well, than in a suger-baked-cookie-with-delicious-extra's in a nutshell. Your daughter has a tough time understanding stuff when spoken and needs a little extra time processing stuff. Example: She'd much rather read a story than have it read to her. I hope that helped. At least, a tiny bit.
I have relatives who are deaf and have other problems stemming from that. I would have said that it seems similar to that, but now I'd probably go with Maverik's explanation.
I have a learning disorder. I don't understand something until it's repetitvely told to me. It's hard to explain for me. Don't fret dear.
My younger brother has autism, and some of his 'symptoms' seem to be quite similar to what Mav posted, so I can offer some advice if you'd like.
I do hope it's not a very severe case of it! Edit: if it's affecting her grades, talk to the teacher to have slighty more written oor text based material and perhaps some extra time to comprehend stuff.
Well, when I was in elementary and half of middle school I had a learning disorder. I was in some special classes and I have an speech impediment. It was hard for me to understand things unless I had them read to me but now it's kind of the opposite in some ways.
I will gladly take any advice that you have to offer me. I also have a learning disability, and its the opposite of what is wrong with my daughter. Everything has to be verbally explained to me, or I just get frustrated and give up. All I know is that we have a really long, hard road ahead of us. =(
Today is one of those days where I wish we actually lived in a bigger city. On the recommendation of a friend that is in the special education field, I am trying to find a psychologist to work with my daughter. Only problem is the closest one that deals exclusively with children with learning issues is 60 miles away. I hate driving on the freeway down there, the people drive like 80 and its horrible. Sigh. I wish I could just make all this go away.