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Subject: How to help with better spelling

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Martina

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Date Posted: 00:55:24 03/15/11 Tue

I would just like to share a program with you. When I first started out helping somebody with dyslexia I had no clue. I needed to do a lot of research. I was able to talk to a psychiatrist, who worked with children with learning disabilities, and ask him for some suggestions. He recommended The Word Wasp. It is a manual for teaching the rules and structures of spelling. It also helps you to help your pupil with word articulation and pronunciation which are important aspects when dealing with putting sounds together. The method is great because it does not rely on memory training techniques. It has students look for the patterns in our language. It also starts at the beginning, with basic sounds, at a slow pace. It tells you, as a coach, what exactly you have to do to help your student. I worked with this system with a fifth grader. We started at the beginning and it was surprising to see what sounds he could not here. His pronunciation was also not clear for either of us which actually excited both of us to do more. It was really helping. Words that had been impossible for him, especially vowels, were all of a sudden a minor problem instead of a major problem. The system really worked for him and improved his spelling in school immensely. The Word Wasp is written by Harry Cowling. For more information you can mail them at sales@wordwasp.com. Their homepage is http://www.wordwasp.com/ .

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