How To Help Your Child With Dyslexia

Here are some great websites to help parents learn more about helping their children with dyslexia.  http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/learning/dyslexia.shtml
http://www.webmd.com/parenting/helping-children-with-dyslex

Here are some of the signs and symptoms of dyslexia in too look for in children: (WebMD)

Brown, Dale (June 2007). Summer Reading Strategies for Children with Dyslexia. LD OnLine.
The article by Dale discusses important information on ways to help your child retain strategies learned in school over summer months.  Click below for the full article.


http://www.ldonline.org/article/Strategies_for_Summer_Reading_for_Children_with_Dyslexia


While looking for strategies to help students with dyslexia, I found an article from an Assistant Professor at St. Bonaventure University. Lorraine Cleeton, suggests seven strategies for improving memory for students with dyslexia.


1.  The Metacognitive Strategy- being aware of how you remember information
2. The First Letter Strategy- remembering the first letter of a word to help memorize a series of words.
3. The Story Strategy- write a real or nonsense story incorporating all the words you need to know.
4. The Grouping Strategy- grouping words together that belong in the same category. 
5. The Imaginary Strategy- making a list of all the things you need to remember and picture them together and/or separately.
6. The Location Strategy- remembering locations and assigning faces to each.
7. The Pegword Strategy- learn a rhymed pegword list, then learn to associate each of these words with the members of the list to be learned


For a full list and examples of each type of strategy visit: http://www.dyslexia-parent.com/mag39.html

• Speech delay
• Pronunciation difficulties
• Difficulty rhyming words
• Impaired ability to learn basics such as the alphabet, colors, and numbers
• Problems with handwriting and other fine motor skills
• Confusing letters such as "b" and "d" or the orders of letters within words
• Trouble learning the connection between letters and their sounds
• An estimated 25% of dyslexics also show signs of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 
• In older children or adults with dyslexia, these other signs may appear:
• Trouble with reading, writing, and spelling
• Ongoing trouble with schoolwork
• Difficulty learning a foreign language
• Poor handwriting
• Difficulty remembering numbers
• Trouble following a sequence of directions and telling left from right

Video Resource:
This video below describes ways your can help your child succeed in school: