Motivated Parent - Successful Child: December 2016

Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Have you heard about Stealth Dyslexia?

BP, 2012

Your child:

Scores well on reading comprehension tests
Has typically strong focus and good attention
Often makes “silly mistakes,” giving answers quite different from those he would have given if he had correctly interpreted the question or answer choices
Dislikes loud reading
Straggles with word-for-word reading
Guesses, skips or replaces words instead of sounding out
Provides fewer means of correcting individual word errors
Shows difficulty reading new (and especially long) words
Omits sounds or letters when reading and writing
Performs worse on silent reading speed and accuracy
Has difficulties spelling words in writing products
Shows difficulty with writing (both mechanics and the speed and quantity of output)

If so consider reading the article “Stealth Dyslexia: How Some Dyslexic Students Escape Detection” from The Inside Track blog, post by Brock and Fernette Edie, Dyslexia Advantage, Mar 04, 2015

https://www.understood.org/en/community-events/blogs/the-inside-track/2015/03/04/stealth-dyslexia-how-some-dyslexic-students-escape-detection

BP, 2013

Studying the subject deeper you will learn that children with stealth dyslexia may be able to compensate well enough to avoid actual failure, especially during the early elementary years, and as a result, they may not be correctly identified as having dyslexia or any other learning challenge, and may not receive the appropriate interventions.

BP, 2015

Check also:

http://www.davidsongifted.org/Search-Database/entry/A10435

http://thepowerofdyslexia.com/dyslexia-in-adults/

Help To Make An Interesting Presentation

Help your child to research for an interesting class presentation. It will boost her/his energy and self-esteem. Discuss specific vocabulary, points of interest and public speaking manners.

My Visit to a Sumo Stable

To Watch a Morning Practice Session

Tokyo, January 2013

Tokyo, 2013

Sumo Stable

Place where the wrestlers live, train and spend free time together throughout their career.
Sumo stable is strictly ruled by the stable master.
An average stable contains around 15 wrestlers.
Sumo stables are no public places.
Only few stables accept visits by tourists who must be accompanied by a Japanese.
All visitors need to sit silently on the floor for 2 to 3 hours and not disturb the training session.
There are about 40 stables, which are located in Tokyo's Ryogoku district.

Facts About Sumo

Sumo began many centuries ago.
Sumo is the nation's oldest professional sport in Japan.
In Sumo there are no weapons used and there is no kicking below the belt.
In Sumo, two people face each other in a circular ring (dohyo) and push, pull and try to throw each other. The one who pushes his opponent to the ground or out of the ring is the winner.

Tokyo, 2013
Wrestlers (rikishi)

Wrestlers enter the world of sumo at a young age (about 16) and reman in their profession until they retire.
Life is hardest for the lower ranked wrestlers, who get up earliest and cook, clean, serve food and wait on the higher ranked wrestlers. They bath last after training, and get last pick at dinner time.
Wrestlers wear a loincloth (mawashi). The same kind of clothes as a samurai of 600 years ago.
Wrestlers wear their hair in a topknot, which was a normal hairstyle in the Edo period.
Wrestlers weight an average of 300 pounds (150 kilograms.) It was always like that.
Regardless of the rank, sumo wrestlers cannot drive a car.
Players can not show emotions, they cannot respond to pain as this may be a cause for disqualification.

Diet

Sumo wrestlers work hard to gain their body weight - 10,000 calories a day.
Wrestlers train on empty stomach. They eat twice a day around 11am & 6pm.
Wrestlers eat chankonabe - stew of meat, vegetables and special rice. They eat to the point of nausea. Then they have a long sleep to give the calories time to take root.
A sumo wrestler’s ordinary day is characterized by morning training, lot of eating and sleeping.