Subject:  Extra Support for children with dyslexia |
Author:
Anne Brocklesby
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Date Posted: 00:58:14 08/04/11 Thu
I realised by young daughter had dyslexia when she was about 6 years old. My husband had spelling difficulties at school, but dyslexia was not recognised in his day. I therefore set about finding out more about the condition, and also seeking additional support for her. I found a tutor who specialised in dyslexia, from our local paper, and after meeting her informally, at her suggestion, we (my daughter and I) felt that she would be a kind person to help her. Thus began some 5 years of multi-sensory teaching for her, in addition to her ordinary school work. I helped her at home with specialist programmes the tutor gave us, like tracking exercises, making cards with blending sounds, and doing coloured pictures to go with them, and following the alpha to omega course programme. My daughter enjoyed her time with the tutor - 1 1/2 hours a week, and it helped her confidence no end. For specialist mathematical help, she went to a different tutor, who helped her with working out her times tables, and to this day, she uses her fingers very successfully to calculate. She also had a spell-checker - a small hand-held electronic programme which helped her spell, until she graduated on to a computer, and before that, used a special dictionary for dyslexic spellers. At school, when she was 11, she had an assessment for dyslexia, and was then given additional help at her secondary school, out of the classroom, for one lesson a week. She successfully went to university and is now a happy, hard-working, creative young woman.
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