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Subject: Confidence Building Techniques

Author:
Mary Maposa

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Date Posted: 00:11:07 03/04/11 Fri

A young dyslexic I am assisting was suffering from low self esteem so I tried the confidence building exercise of getting him to write down what he is good at on one side of the page and things he has difficulty with on the other side of the page. Obviously the 'good' side was much longer than the 'difficulty' side. He seemed really amazed at the difference and since then I can already see an improvement in his confidence! I also have adopted the technique of not marking his draft homework until he gets it all right, i.e. I do not put x's against wrong answers anymore - it seems to keep him more centred and he does not get upset and frustrated like he used to. Both these methods have worked well for him.

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Re: Confidence Building Techniques	Sarah. (England)	03:52:35 03/13/11 Sun