Welcome to Dyslexia Testing: DAWN MATTHEWS FAMILY TRUST
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10 tips for parents and teachers to help dyspraxic kids
The following suggestions should help any dyslexic pupil to feel more relaxed and able to work well in your classroom. If you have a stressed dyslexic in your class s/he will not be learning well, could be misbehaving and will not reach his/he true potential in your class.
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10 tips for presenting worksheets for dyslexics
Dyslexics are slow and painful readers and we are put under stress by being given lots of text to read in a short time. We are frequently unable to read the given text in the time teachers give us. The fewer the words the easier it is for us to complete the task. Read more information ...
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Times Square Table
Before encouraging a pupil to use this times table square as an arithmetic aid, ensure that the pupil understands the concepts of both multiplication and division.
You can test for this by showing times and divide sums and asking the pupil to predict the answer.
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The definitions of dyslexia are many and varied. Some experts spend much of their time arguing over the exact definition of “dyslexia” when what is important is being able to help kids who are failing or behind in literacy.
As a dyslexic who struggled through school, I am passionate about helping other kids who suffer this same fate. This is why I have dedicated much of my life to helping children and adults who learn differently from the norm. I do not like the label "Learning Difficulty" as this implies impairment or disability. I have worked with thousands of these kids and adults and have concluded that most of them are, in fact, much more able than their peers in many aspects of learning and working. It is just that we dyslexics are a minority within the education system and are so often forced to learn in the same way as the majority do. This is all wrong for us. .
Dyslexia appears in all classes, intellects, and ethnic groups of people. It also tends to run in families. However, because our language is both symbolic (words and letters are symbols that represent a sound rather than being a pictogram of what the word means as in Chinese) and irregularly spelt, dyslexics are more noticeable in the English speaking world.
The pictorial languages of Japan and the far East are learnt in a different way, using a different part of the brain, and offer much less of a challenge to many dyslexic minds than does the symbolic language of English. I have taught dyslexic Japanese children who displayed much more of a problem with their English than they did with their Japanese. Also the phonetically regular spelling of Italian and Spanish is easier for dyslexics to master.
Here is a definitive list of famous dyslexics
I am particularly pleased to be able to add Will Smith, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Nicholson, Patrick Dempsey, Beethoven, Van Gogh, Jorn Utza [the architect who designed the Sydney Opera House], Anita Roddick, Newton, Galileo and Kerry Packer. I think it includes most famous people now !! View article >>
