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Russel Van Brocklen
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Date Posted: 12:52:45 07/08/11 Fri
In reply to:
Ece
's message, "How to tell "you have dyslexia" to a child" on 11:59:26 07/08/11 Fri
I completely understand where your friend’s child is coming from; I was in the same situation when I was young. The best way to explain this is to tell the child the truth, his brain works fundamentally different then his classmates, and he needs to work on his strengths, and not worry too much about his weaknesses.
In order to do this they should find out what subjects that the child really likes, and have him start reading any book he wishes, from the local library, on those subjects. After six mouths his parents should start having him write about what he reads. The results do not matter at the start, he just needs to keep reading and writing.
Over time he will develop reasonable ok reading and writing skills in these areas, and do very well. In other subjects he will not do as well, which is fine. It is critical for the child to understand that dyslexic students are academic specialists, and know that it is ok that he will do poorly in other subjects.
One primary reason for dyslexic students feeling bad about themselves is societies thinking that we all must be well rounded educated people. The dyslexic student never will be.
After the dyslexic student gets through college, he should be pushed hard to attended graduate school, where he will excel. In graduate school I was shocked how I could keep coming up with big advances in the field of dyslexia, in finding new and better ways to teach dyslexic students to read and write better, but my classes mates could not create an original idea. However, my classmates where light-years better than me on reading material and writing reports, so we exchanged services.
Now I could not be happier that I am dyslexic, even though my K-12 years where very hard.
If I can be of any further assistance, please contact me at:
http://www.dyslexiaconsultants.com/contact-us.html
Regards,
Russel Van Brocklin
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http://www.dyslexiaconsultants.com/index.html
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