Livi went for her Ed Psych assessment this morning.
Oh boy!
The official line is - Non-Verbal Learning Disability.
Which means verbally the kid is ok, so long as she is talking but non-verbally, that is visually she is at sea.
Or in other words - Dyslexia, Dyscalcula and Dyspraxia.
Or in other words, she is not great at processing.
How bizaare - that looks just like Abi. Good thing we have been well enough brought up (to borrow Jim's jargon) to recognise struggling when we saw it and didn't just call it laziness or a phase or something to be got over.
Well, I know this script. I've been here before.
Funny that Livi's reaction was similar to Abi's - relief that there is a reason for things not clicking the way they ought to.
Oh yes, and another couple of pieces of awesome - her reading age is 10 years and 11 months (she is 7 and 3 months) and her IQ puts her in the top 2%. Not that I wanted to finish on a brag .... but... y'know. She deserves a bit of a brag!
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She does indeed deserve a bit of a brag. I am glad this diagnosis has come for Livi as she can now move forwards and has no need to be as stressed as before. I am convinced this kind of thing is hugley more prevalent than we have any idea of and that there were many kids that suffered a lot in the past school systems over it.
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