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Dyslexia information and resources for helping dyslexic children and teens
Dyslexia and Synthetic Phonics Certificate Courses
Many teachers, teaching assistants and parents find themselves responsible for the education or support of a dyslexic child or teenager but do not feel equippped with the knowledge about dyslexia or synthetic phonics. Our distance learning multi-media courses provide practical training in how to support and teach a child who is, or may be, suffering from dyslexia, either in school or at home.
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Multi-sensory teaching methods
Studies from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development have shown that for children with difficulties learning to read, a multi-sensory teaching method is the most effective teaching method to use to teach a child with dyslexia.
Confidence building
The majority of children with dyslexia have come to the conclusion that they are stupid! In any school in any week of the year, a dyslexic child experiences a huge amount of failure. Why can’t he read and spell? He must be dumb, thick, stupid. It’s the conclusion that anyone would reach in similar circumstances, and it badly needs changing before any corrective teaching is going to be effective.
Books about dyslexia: a selection by experienced experts of books, software and technological aids for children and students with dyslexia is here for teachers.
Information about free print-outs for parents, listings of phonics programs, and links to a huge range of resources for helping children with dyslexia in your school.
To be quite honest, nobody quite knows at the moment. There has been a real increase in the amount of information available through research, and a number of possibilities are beginning to emerge, but the waters are still fairly murky. The overall picture is that dyslexia can be caused in two ways:
You might be concerned that your own children may be dyslexic. Full details about dyslexia in children and a description of the symptoms of dyslexia are to found on this page:
Almost every dyslexic child suffers from bullying at some stage in their schooling, and, combined with the difficulties they experience with spelling, writing and reading, being bullied can have a devastating effect on their self-confidence and achievement.
Symptoms of possible dyslexia in a pupil:
The criteria most commonly used in assessment is the disparity (difference) between a pupil’s intelligence and their actual achievement.
If a pupil you teach appears to speak and listen normally, yet they are unable to read and spell, then there may be more to check out.