Re: All About Dyslexia
Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2017 11:48 am
Dear RayMum,
As far as I am aware, you can use the psychological report to push for Chinese exemption from MOE due to the severity of the case. You can engage the support of the teachers also to push through for the exemption.
There is no Chinese dyslexia assessment tool available on the market based on my understanding though I hear there are plans to develop one.
However, MOE recognises a valid psychological report, so that would do. You can perhaps further substantiate it with comments from his teachers and include your observations on his difficultiess too.
If your son is still in primary school, you can consider enrolling him into the DAS Chinese Programme where teach Chinese in a fun and non-threatening way, using methods developed in-house catered specifically to dyslexic children. Most of my students who have enrolled there report a positive learning experience when they go there for classes.
Hope that is helpful. And all the best.
Regards,
Rachel Tan
The Alternative Education
As far as I am aware, you can use the psychological report to push for Chinese exemption from MOE due to the severity of the case. You can engage the support of the teachers also to push through for the exemption.
There is no Chinese dyslexia assessment tool available on the market based on my understanding though I hear there are plans to develop one.
However, MOE recognises a valid psychological report, so that would do. You can perhaps further substantiate it with comments from his teachers and include your observations on his difficultiess too.
If your son is still in primary school, you can consider enrolling him into the DAS Chinese Programme where teach Chinese in a fun and non-threatening way, using methods developed in-house catered specifically to dyslexic children. Most of my students who have enrolled there report a positive learning experience when they go there for classes.
Hope that is helpful. And all the best.
Regards,
Rachel Tan
The Alternative Education
RayMum wrote:Dear Parents,
I need help to find a clinical educational psychologist who is recognised by MOE and can conduct Chinese Dyslexia Diagnosis Assessment and give me a psychological report on my boy's condition. He was diagnosed with mild dyslexia when he was in K2 but all along we noticed that he has speech impairment and no matter how attentive he is in class, his Mother Tongue teachers have been feedbacking to us that he is not absorbing but he is not those disruptive type. He would sit in his seat quietly and paying attention and we were told to do more Mother Tongue with him at home. In fact, he spent more time revising and working on learning Mother Tongue compared to his other subjects. He attended DAS which helped him alot in his English and we work daily with him at home.
We have submitted the Psychological Diagnosed Report as well as NUH Doctors' letter to asked for exemption for Mother Tongue. He has tried very hard to the extend that it is hurting his well-being that he has nightmares, sleeptalks and sit up in the middle of the night screaming. And he broke down once at home when we told him to go to bed as it was already 10p.m. and he insisted he still needed to revise for his Mother Tongue and cried that it is better to be dead than to be so stupid that he could not do his own Mother Tongue.
We have fought for the right for him to see a psychologist in NUH. And further revelation from the NUH psychologist was really shocking to us as he is really at the verge of a breakdown where he had already plan out how he could take his life to prove to those adults and classmates that thought that he was not working hard and that he was lying when he mentioned that he could not absorb and remember Chinese Characters no matter how much he has tried and spent time on them. And with that revelation, we have sent him to see a private psychiatrist and she has assessed him and she agreed that he has serious issues in learning his language because he has dyslexia and not all children have dyslexia can learn 2 languages and he has done exceptionally well to master English considering that he could not even read or write when he was 1 month short of going to Primary 1 and being a very determined boy, he has come a long way.
Please help if you know of any clinical psychologist who can conduct the Chinese Dyslexia Assessment. Thank You.
From
A very desperate mum.