Test for ADD or not?
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2007 11:17 pm
I am so glad to find this forum. My dd is 6 and we decided to give her an extra year before starting kindergarten not because she was behind academically but because of the "wigglies". I worked very sparsely with her on "Hooked on Phonics" last school year. We have just started Phonics Pathways in conjunction with HOP. She has made it up to a level 4.
Here are my concerns:
1. Mom has ADD but taught myself to read by age 5
2. Daughter has a voracious appetite for looking at books and has a phenomenal imagination/vocabulary but seems to show little interest in wanting to read text.
3. She inverts letter, skips words, loses her place. I just saw a website selling some reading aid and it reallly freaked me out because of 10 abnormal reading behaviors on there she does almost all of them.
4. I am perhaps most disturbed by her memory. I we don't do reading for 2 days say . . . it is like she has never seen the sight words in her life.
If the word is "what" she will guess "see". I am completely confounded.
5. She can do oral dictation wonderfully!
Should I test her or not if I am homeschooling? I am not opposed to meds per se but would consider them only as a last resort.
Here are my concerns:
1. Mom has ADD but taught myself to read by age 5
2. Daughter has a voracious appetite for looking at books and has a phenomenal imagination/vocabulary but seems to show little interest in wanting to read text.
3. She inverts letter, skips words, loses her place. I just saw a website selling some reading aid and it reallly freaked me out because of 10 abnormal reading behaviors on there she does almost all of them.
4. I am perhaps most disturbed by her memory. I we don't do reading for 2 days say . . . it is like she has never seen the sight words in her life.
If the word is "what" she will guess "see". I am completely confounded.
5. She can do oral dictation wonderfully!
Should I test her or not if I am homeschooling? I am not opposed to meds per se but would consider them only as a last resort.