Dyslexia Testing

Well I guess this is a good thing though that you don't have both. I feel for you sweetie. I suppose if I ever have children and they think that they have dyslexia then I'll make sure it's not SSS before they're labeled.

Pigglies, I am so glad you finally got the testing, and I really like what I saw of the website. I have bookmarked it. I have never heard that label, SSS, or the term for the treatment. I have however seen the lead teacher I have experiment with giving some of our poor readers colored filters to use when reading. For some it was helpful, for others it was just something to play with instead of participate. My teacher has moved on to another school, and I will probably transfer to a different school closer to my home. I will still keep this in mind because it explained to me what she was doing. I know that on some of our standardized test they either have a colored screen or access to a computerized highlighter bar for when they are reading. So, with your SSS, what are your options?

Hey there, thanks for the link. I have dyslexia and was diagnosed as a child. My sister and dad have it also. My sister went through most of school not knowing what was wrong with her reading. She had to take special education classes in reading. I got lucky though, I never had to take special education classes because mine was caught early and therefore i was able to get help by different methods and was able to read using special lens or with a cap on my head.

Its very difficult to accuratly diagnose some dyslexias with any degree of certainty. The scoptopic syndrome is far more rare than dyslexia that causes the words and letters to move independently. That is without other issues coexisting. The important thing is to seek professional advice and then take it with a pinch of salt. You are fortunate, if that is the right word that the SS is existing on its own. Literacy wise you will have catching up to do. A fundamental part of dyslexia is an issue with the short term memory not working OK, Sense of direction and time, difficulties writing and reading, disorganisation, left handedness. We all have these things of course. It need not be all of them all the time. It is dangerous to diagnose these problems without proper assessment (looking at the whole person!). How do feel if a label has been hung around your neck. A major feature of dyslexia is discrepency - appearing to be grat at some stuff, verbally but being awful at say writing it down. I have done a lot of research on coloured overlays and am sometimes amazed at the help they can give. Of course not just dyslexics but other issues too like epilepsy.