Dyslexia symptoms??

Question

i think my mom has dyslexia because whenever i asked her with my homework she couldnt answer me so evenuatlly i stopped asking her and tonight i asked her to help me study for my drivers ed state test and when she was reading the questions; she kept stuttering over the words and reading too fast and kept asking me wat words were like "permissible" and "merge" were. it's like that with all my homework; she cant help with math cuz she cant do simple addition & subtraction (when we go to the bank or adds something she'll get her caculator instead of adding it in her head) or she cant help with english because she doesnt understand it and she cant spell the simplest words like "because" or "holding" & she doesnt know how to use the correct tense of words like run and ran...she'll say "runned"

could she be dyslexic?

Answer 1

She certainly could have a learning disability of some type. She may have been able to make it through school with compensating strategies to cover up her needs. Perhaps in a gentle way you could ask her about it--not to put her down, but out of concern for her and to be more aware of your genetics. Perhaps she has other relatives who had learning issues. Most communities have adult ed programs for people who want to work on their reading, English, or math skills, or work toward a GED.

She may also have grown up in a family that didn't monitor her academic progress and used colloquial dialect in their speaking patterns. She has probably been hiding her lack of reading and math skills from you to protect herself from embarrassment or to protect you from looking at her as less of a mom.

But your concern and love for your mom is obvious, so if you approach her gently and lovingly, in a way that is looking to find out more about her and her family, you may learn some new things about your mom--and perhaps you could help her as much as she has helped you in other areas over the years.

Good luck!! I hope you grow closer to your mom as your discover more about who she is as a person.

Answer 2

It is entirely possibly your mother has dyslexia, and if not picked up as a child she would have slipped through the education system.

My mother could not read or write, she learnt to read around 40. It turns out she had dyslexia, as does my daughter and I. My daughter and I also have dyscalculia (maths) and my daughter has dysgraphia (writing). I was 14 when I learnt to read, and I was teased fairly badly because of it.

My poor mother was embarrassed (I was mortified) when I was accused of forging an absent note for school, dad made mum write a copy of the note, in front of the headmaster to prove I did not forge the note. A bit late after I had got detention. Sadly I was mad at mum for days, if she was alive today I would apologize, as I did not know she or I had dyslexia.

The links below explain what dyslexia is, the top link is the signs and symptoms of dyslexia, the next shows what dyslexics see.

Your mother can learn to read if she is given the encouragement, support and patience  to do so. What ever the cause please encourage her to get some help, so she is very capable of learning to read, what ever her age.

If you want any tips on how to help her please send me an email.

Answer 3

Go to my free site, www.geocities.com/carjug , and force your mom to read the Tongue Twisters and the first five or so poems, all the way to Casey at the Bat. If she has a miracle cure and starts having a lot of fun , then she has a reading problem that is not dyslexia. Not likely, but worth a shot, and you will have to hog-tie her to get her to do it!

    Does she read aloud? This is a tell-tale symptom of dyslexia.

www.beingdyslexic.co.uk

Google Sally Shaywitz and Brain, limit the search to images.

Books on tape. Library. Just Do It.