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Subject: Tutoring

Author:
Gretchen

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Date Posted: 03:40:40 09/01/09 Tue

Am dyslexic and learnt to side step it most of my life. Have always run my own businesses and will give anything a go. Just finished building a house so no task is to big. My children are off my hands and am now looking a giving life a new purpose.
Have undertaken a course in New Zealand on tutoring dyslexia and returned to Australia, Queensland to start tutoring. Have become horrified at the lack of support, help and understanding here. Will keep plugging on for each child I help is all worth it. My web site is www.helpfordyslexia.info if there is any pointers or more information you think I should add please let me know. The next step is learning to do public speaking. Am aproching schools at the moment, have advertised in the local, letter drops, books in waiting rooms and notices on boards at the local supermarkets. Need to push "difficulty with the written word" for dyslexia seens to be a dirty word. How sad.

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Re: Tutoring

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Kathy Gravat
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Date Posted: 11:41:57 09/03/09 Thu

Dyslexia runs in my family. I was tested about 1982 and the test was inconclusive at George Washington University in the USA capital.

My Father as a child had dyslexia and his mother had dyslexia as well at the time. Back in the 1950s Grandma found someone specializing in this for the most part unknown/ignored problem who taught my Father to read so my young dad in turn taught his Mom to read by using some tricks but I am not privy to the exact nature how it was done.

Short story my Grandmother once she unlocked the way to stop the letters from moving on her as she read. (I think partly by underlining words with a pencil as she read.) She found that she enjoyed reading very, very much.

My Father became a Doctor of Dental Surgury/DDS Dentist who loves to read history books.

I realize that there is a range of different levels of difficulty of Dyslexia for those who have it. I did reverse my bees and dees in writing and it takes me a little bit longer to accomplish work so I may have some effects of it or not. I had everyone working on teaching me to read way, way before I went to school like from four years of age. It may have made all the difference in the world between my being dyslexic or just inconclusive.

I say if you find a subject that a dyslexic child is absolutely passionate about (like for me it was horses) then get them books or magazines about that subject they should learn to like to read like all three of us in my Family did.

Remember it's the dyslexics who stuggle the most who develope wonderful "gifts". My Dyslexic Grandma was a very accomplished portriat painter who taught drawing and painting in her own school. She used this school, in part, as a way to help discover other people with dyslexia who she could teach to read and encourage. Her other gift of Dyslexia was a steel trap memory. In college she remembered what she heard at lectures and tutored history to other "non-dyslexic" classmates only Grandma couldn't do well on these test because she at the time had had zero help or ability to read. Thanks to her son she learned to read and discovered joy in reading.

She would want me to share with you guys that story. Still in handwriting they both always had difficulty. My Dad is also a lefthanded person.

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damefrank
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Date Posted: 08:25:07 09/04/09 Fri

damefrank

Perhaps you could advertise how dyslexia is a gift (which it is). And perhaps you could point out that 25% of the population will never have the luxury of this "bonus" ability that 3-D spatial thinkers (dyslexics) have!

I'm preparing a graph right now which illustrates why those at the top who master the language are 2-D linear thinkers and those on the far spectrum are 3-D spatial thinkers. Just to prove a point that most people fall within the bell curve, but those at the far ends of the spectrum will never come to meet or understand one another.

Now that I learned this from the book, "The Gift of Dyslexia" I am able to deal more effectively with the Administration at schools where my market lies with also. I wrote a phonetic dictionary for dyslexics and there is no reason every single dyslexic child should not have one of these to use with their schoolwork. It takes hours off of their homework time. Try the library, they probably have one, it's in 32 countries.