After spending 4 hours at a workshop on Dyslexia run by Britain`s Neil McKay, I am feeling grateful that I had the chance to attend. It was organised by the Dyslexia foundation of NZ - 4D who are getting on with it. Thank goodness.
He gave us some fantastic, usable techniques to work with all children, including those who have dyslexic-like characteristics and ways of thinking.
More to come later.
I have followed the developments in dyslexia awareness in NZ and read the literature from the 4d dyslexia foundation.
ReplyDeleteAt this point what seems to be needed is a concrete program that your teachers can use to teach children at risk for reading failure.
There is a FREE 40 week program that I believe will meet those needs as well as any paid program. This is designed by teachers to instruct teachers in teaching at risk children. It comes with free downloads of material ( you pay for the paper and ink).
It would be also informational for parents of dyslexics. Here is the URL
http://www.freereading.net/index.php?title=Main_Page
My niche is visual dyslexia which affects a small minority of dyslexics and is a visual problem with seeing text in a uniform and stable manner. As most dyslexics don't have visual problems I have a link page to free products and information that they might find helpful. The links to free text to speech programs are popular with dyslexics with computers. That address is http://dyslexiaglasses.com/links.html
After all reading shouldn't be rocket surgery.