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Feedback with the teacher helped self confidence

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Martina

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Date Posted: 00:48:06 02/11/11 Fri

I would just like to mention an experience with a dyslexic child that will show how important it is for not only the parent to be in touch with the teacher to build self confidence. It is so important, as a tutor/helper to give and receive feedback from the teacher.

I even had a personal experience. Richard and I were practicing vowels. For homework he would get 15 words and had to pick out certain characteristics of each word. For example - �phone� �ph� sounds like f. There were many that he could choose from (too many for Richard) so we decided to work on long and short vowels. At first Richard could not distinguish between long and short vowel sounds We had to work really hard. It would take us the whole hour to get it done but he was getting better. After all our practice he could finish his list in 15 minutes. Each time we finished with the list we would take a cookie break due to his great effort. I then called and asked the teacher if she felt he was making progress. She told me that she was so impressed with his work that she let Richard help another student (non-dyslexic) who was having trouble with vowels. Richard came to me the next day; he was so proud of himself and his confidence soared! He now loved working with vowels. I might add that not only Richard's self-confidence soared, mine did too. I was really helping.

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