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Structuring Written content for dyslexics

How can you easily structure any written content Did you know W. B. Yeats is one of the most famous poets of all time, winning the  Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 , but few people know about his personal struggle with dyslexia. I want to continue telling you about my personal struggle and how I achieving success with dyslexia. My daughter at 7 was and still is a prolific reader. And she reads books above her age group. Well she has an advanced vocabulary too, partly because of this and also she liked to talk "at" adults. She is dyslexic. I was struggling with her daughter to help her complete her homework about a year ago. It was to complete a nocturnal animals report. She had read 6 books and could tell me all about the animals in detail. But she did not know where to start. It seems strange to me that kids are not shown how to plan and make the homework. And of course without structure, she began to fail. Homework When I brough...

Treatment of Dyslexia

Dyslexia can be substantially compensated for with proper therapy, training, and equipment.  Only traditional educational remedial techniques have any record of improving the reading ability of those identified with dyslexia.  Treatment Remedial efforts focusing on phonological awareness training  can improve reading skills. For example  breaking words into their basic sounds. And rearranging these sounds to produce different words.  Early intervention The earlier the phonological regimen is taken on, the better the overall result.  Visual stress reduction There is evidence that colored lenses, any visual training, or similar proposed treatments may be of use. It will depend on the phonological and visual components of the particular patient’s problem. Via  http://autism-help.org/comorbid-dyslexia-autism.htm