Jon was taken to task by his chief swimming coach last night. As usual, he wasn't paying any attention and was looking everywhere except directly at the coach when the chief coach was talking to him about correcting his strokes to gain more power and speed.
Spoke to the coach later and found out that they had an similar problem with another boy much earlier. Asked how they managed to overcome the problem and was told that every time the trainee doesn't pay attention, he/she is 'punished' by having to do more than the others i.e instead of the usual 100 warm-up push-ups, they are asked to do say 200 to 500 push-ups. This is meted out if normal counseling fails. The coaches usually explain to the trainees why they need to do what they are told ad that is sufficient for the trainees to accept.
I wonder if all Dyslexics are like this. Is ADD/ADHD part and parcel of a dyslexic? Does Dyslexia causes ADD/ADHD to manifest in the person? In Jon's case, my observations during his Kindy days that his alleged ADD/ADHD was caused by his poor eye-sight. Since he couldn't see the board (Black or white), why should he pay attention to what's being written and shown there? The teachers compounded his attention issue by moving him to the back of the class where all the toys were.
Being in his shoes, what would you do when faced with this choice: a blurry white/black board that you cannot see and brightly colored toys that you can see?
We then got him corrective glasses. Now his dyslexia manifests itself. I've been wondering since whether his dyslexia was caused by the poor vision compounded by our "greenhorn" parenting or he really has dyslexia. Now Jay is exhibiting signs of the same in his school work but yet he speaks much better than Jon, reads better and seem to understand maths better too.
As if I don't have enough on my mind lately what with the prospects of moving into a new, more demanding job happening next week! Why can't technical jobs be paid just as high as sales? I'd like to see a company try to sustain its' business by just having sales people and no back-office personnel for support! Let's see how long they'll last!
Well, crunch time for Jon this weekend. He's in for 100m breaststroke and freestyle on Saturday followed by 50m breaststroke and freestyle on Sunday. I'm not going to push him for the top 3 places, I'll just push him to do his best and meet or break his training timings.
Spoke to the coach later and found out that they had an similar problem with another boy much earlier. Asked how they managed to overcome the problem and was told that every time the trainee doesn't pay attention, he/she is 'punished' by having to do more than the others i.e instead of the usual 100 warm-up push-ups, they are asked to do say 200 to 500 push-ups. This is meted out if normal counseling fails. The coaches usually explain to the trainees why they need to do what they are told ad that is sufficient for the trainees to accept.
I wonder if all Dyslexics are like this. Is ADD/ADHD part and parcel of a dyslexic? Does Dyslexia causes ADD/ADHD to manifest in the person? In Jon's case, my observations during his Kindy days that his alleged ADD/ADHD was caused by his poor eye-sight. Since he couldn't see the board (Black or white), why should he pay attention to what's being written and shown there? The teachers compounded his attention issue by moving him to the back of the class where all the toys were.
Being in his shoes, what would you do when faced with this choice: a blurry white/black board that you cannot see and brightly colored toys that you can see?
We then got him corrective glasses. Now his dyslexia manifests itself. I've been wondering since whether his dyslexia was caused by the poor vision compounded by our "greenhorn" parenting or he really has dyslexia. Now Jay is exhibiting signs of the same in his school work but yet he speaks much better than Jon, reads better and seem to understand maths better too.
As if I don't have enough on my mind lately what with the prospects of moving into a new, more demanding job happening next week! Why can't technical jobs be paid just as high as sales? I'd like to see a company try to sustain its' business by just having sales people and no back-office personnel for support! Let's see how long they'll last!
Well, crunch time for Jon this weekend. He's in for 100m breaststroke and freestyle on Saturday followed by 50m breaststroke and freestyle on Sunday. I'm not going to push him for the top 3 places, I'll just push him to do his best and meet or break his training timings.
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