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Posted: Nov 19 2009 at 1:23pm | IP Logged Quote Stephanie_Q
My daughter is 7 and in 1st grade Seton at home.
We have been trying to decide if she has some kind of learning disability or is "normally" behind.

She was enrolled in Kindergarten and was at the bottom of her class, although she was one of the oldest, at 6. They wouldn't test her in Kindergarten and didn't think there was anything significant to worry about.

Our biggest struggle this year has been with letter and number reversals - mostly when she writes (and a few when she reads) and a seeming inability to memorize anything (addition and subtraction facts, her religion lesson, etc - she can say something 10 times in a row and won't remember what she said 10 seconds later).

She forms her circles clockwise, even if that means starting at the bottom, as in letter C. She has trouble writing b, d, g, j, p, and q because she makes a circle (backwards) and then tries to figure out which side the line goes on (or which way it scoops). I noticed her having trouble today with the letter X. She wants to cross from top to bottom (L-R) and then bottom to top (L-R, again). She also makes her K and Y funny and often reverses Z and 2 (as well as 3, 6, 7, and 9).

Our biggest struggle in reading (whether we're doing phonics or sight words) is distinguishing between b and d. Is all this still "normal" at her age (7 1/2)?

FYI: We have had some discipline issues where she "doesn't know" anything and won't do her work. We've been working through that and I'm often surprised at the things that she really does know, but these issues that I've mentioned are pretty consistent.

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