Re: reading age WAS vision therapy
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**I'd like to hear others' experiences.**
One girl reading fluently at 7 1/2 to 8.
Twins - one boy reading fluently at 6, one girl reading fluently at 10. Girl
struggled with reading, wanted desparately to read but had great difficulty,
boy picked it up seemingly effortlessly and didn't much care one way or the
other. The end result is that at 10 they have approximately the same reading
level.
Deborah in IL
One girl reading fluently at 7 1/2 to 8.
Twins - one boy reading fluently at 6, one girl reading fluently at 10. Girl
struggled with reading, wanted desparately to read but had great difficulty,
boy picked it up seemingly effortlessly and didn't much care one way or the
other. The end result is that at 10 they have approximately the same reading
level.
Deborah in IL
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In a message dated 7/25/02 12:08:14 PM, dacunefare@... writes:
<< Twins - one boy reading fluently at 6, one girl reading fluently at 10.
Girl
struggled with reading, wanted desparately to read but had great difficulty,
boy picked it up seemingly effortlessly and didn't much care one way or the
other. The end result is that at 10 they have approximately the same reading
level.
four kids. ZIPPY--zippy to learn, quick talker, observant, quick to see
problems and solve them (especially logistical or social problems). Liam is
Renee's twin brother. But when they were born, Liam seemed possibly two
months younger than Renee. She seemed full term and he seemed very preemie.
He has caught up. <<g> Took over a dozen years, but he did.
Deborah, is that a possible parallel? (maybe not at all)
Sandra
<< Twins - one boy reading fluently at 6, one girl reading fluently at 10.
Girl
struggled with reading, wanted desparately to read but had great difficulty,
boy picked it up seemingly effortlessly and didn't much care one way or the
other. The end result is that at 10 they have approximately the same reading
level.
>>Carol's kids have a set of twins in the middle. Renee is the quickest of her
four kids. ZIPPY--zippy to learn, quick talker, observant, quick to see
problems and solve them (especially logistical or social problems). Liam is
Renee's twin brother. But when they were born, Liam seemed possibly two
months younger than Renee. She seemed full term and he seemed very preemie.
He has caught up. <<g> Took over a dozen years, but he did.
Deborah, is that a possible parallel? (maybe not at all)
Sandra
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**Renee is the quickest of her four kids. ZIPPY--zippy to learn, quick
talker, observant, quick to see problems and solve them (especially
logistical or social problems). Liam is Renee's twin brother. But when
they were born, Liam seemed possibly two months younger than Renee. She
seemed full term and he seemed very preemie.
He has caught up. <<g> Took over a dozen years, but he did.
Deborah, is that a possible parallel? (maybe not at all)**
Some. :) Not the premie/full term bit though - they were born full term and
the same size, stayed the same size as each other all this time, never more
than a 1/2 inch difference in height and two pounds in weight right up until
this spring when Sarah went into that BIG puberty growth spurt. Oddly enough,
now that there's actually a significant size difference between them they've
recently had several people notice that they're twins.
Anyway, back to topic. When they were younger it was a huge source of
frustration to Sarah how easily Patrick picked stuff up. He not only learned
to read without trying when she was the one who really really wanted to read,
he played with math for fun in his head while she had to slowly ponder
everything. And of course the only things people ever ask about are math and
reading.
The first time she came up with the answer to a math problem they were both
contemplating before he did it shocked the heck out of everyone in the room.
(It was something for a game - adding scores maybe, or maybe it was a mileage
thing.) It doesn't happen often, but because they think in different ways
about math every so often her way works out faster than his does, even though
he's definitely both more interested in math and more accomplished at it. She
has definitely "caught up" - acheived competence at the kind of stuff that
comes up normally around here - the not coming up normally stuff he's
exploring all on his own without her though.
Deborah in IL
talker, observant, quick to see problems and solve them (especially
logistical or social problems). Liam is Renee's twin brother. But when
they were born, Liam seemed possibly two months younger than Renee. She
seemed full term and he seemed very preemie.
He has caught up. <<g> Took over a dozen years, but he did.
Deborah, is that a possible parallel? (maybe not at all)**
Some. :) Not the premie/full term bit though - they were born full term and
the same size, stayed the same size as each other all this time, never more
than a 1/2 inch difference in height and two pounds in weight right up until
this spring when Sarah went into that BIG puberty growth spurt. Oddly enough,
now that there's actually a significant size difference between them they've
recently had several people notice that they're twins.
Anyway, back to topic. When they were younger it was a huge source of
frustration to Sarah how easily Patrick picked stuff up. He not only learned
to read without trying when she was the one who really really wanted to read,
he played with math for fun in his head while she had to slowly ponder
everything. And of course the only things people ever ask about are math and
reading.
The first time she came up with the answer to a math problem they were both
contemplating before he did it shocked the heck out of everyone in the room.
(It was something for a game - adding scores maybe, or maybe it was a mileage
thing.) It doesn't happen often, but because they think in different ways
about math every so often her way works out faster than his does, even though
he's definitely both more interested in math and more accomplished at it. She
has definitely "caught up" - acheived competence at the kind of stuff that
comes up normally around here - the not coming up normally stuff he's
exploring all on his own without her though.
Deborah in IL