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Best help for learding difficulties in children

One of our daughter's, a twin is 7yrs old , 8 year's this October, our
daughter has been with a speech therapist, private for over 4yrs
now, our daughter  had late speech development, has learning difficulties, had at 6yrs old her tested by a child educaiton pyscologist,  our daughter has been late to reach milestones, didn't crawl till 11months, didn't walk till 20months, later toilet training, etc etc, our daughter can now
talk 10-12 word sentences now but still has expressive language, sequence language difficulties, our
daughter though is reading and sounds out words really well, also writing, forms her letters well, our other daughter the twin
is bright and doesn't have expressive language difficulties, As I said our daughter can talk, but has sequential sequencing  difficulties.  Our daughter with her twin sister  are in year 2 at School, we live Australia. Our daughter that has
speech therapy privately and receives

Education support at School, plus, we do education computer programs
with her  every day after school, our daughter wants to learn, has fantastic
concentration. We buy the education material
these education games  make them say the word,
type the word etc, they are for English and Math's, our daughter seems
to learn visually,  Our daughter keeps improving, but is
behind her peers with expressive language and we just want to do all we can to keep her progressing at her pace, but
also to a level she can achieve in life also.



Thanks for taking the time to reply.
Anything else we could try for our daughter.



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521840 tn?1348840771
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Hello,
   its a wonderful thing for your daughter that you have been able to obtain private speech services for her and advocate for educational support in the classroom. I am glad to hear that her decoding (sounding out) skills are progressing. However, given that some children with language delays may have specific language based learning disabilities, its best to watch her progress closely. Language based learning disabilities impact reading and writing, and may interfere with mathematics and science in later grades.

   There's a terrific website called ldonline.org that will provide you with detailed information about speech and learning disabilities as well as recommendations for best practices in instruction. You can share this information with her teachers and make sure that no early warning signs of problems go undetected. Other useful websites include The Council for Exceptional Children (www.cec.sped.org) and The National Center for Accelerating Student Learning (http://kc.vanderbilt.edu/casl/). Finally, if she does not already touch type, you will want to invest the time in having her master this skill. I recommend using fun software and offering rewards for each small milestone (mastering a couple of new keys). This will be a great boon to her as she progresses through elementary school writing assignments.

Best Wishes
Rebecca Resnik
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494594 tn?1212967928
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Hello! I believe Dr. Resnik responded to the same question you posed from the day before. I hope that helped. - Dr. Varia
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