Welcome to Dyslexia Testing
Is your child bright but struggling in mainstream education?
If so then this site is for you.
This site is for dyslexics so if you are having trouble reading this then follow this link and get a fee voice over installed.
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Test for Dyslexia
Test for Dyspraxia
Test for Auditory Processing Disorder
About this site
I am Dawn Matthews and as a dyslexic teacher of dyslexics and other learning styles, and a parent of dyslexic kids, I have dedicated my life to helping any person who learns differently from the norm. I have been doing this for decades. During this time I have set up and run various centres, specialists units within schools and support groups mostly in the UK. Most recently I established, along with help from other dedicated people, Dyslexic Centre Australia Inc. of which I am president.
I have been turning kids and adults with dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADD into confident, happy and successful students for decades. It is possible that I have actually sorted more dyslexics than any other single person. But I do not claim to "cure" it.
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Visit our parent site - Dyslexic Centre Australia (www.dyslexiccentreaustralia.org.au) for free handouts for parents and teachers.
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Home Schooling Assesments
Are you home schooling a square peg?
Are you home schooling a kid because s/he does not cope well with mainstream education?
If you are I wish you the best. I hope that you and your kid are doing well, are happy and s/he if thriving with your one on one teachin...
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Dead Easy Phonics Course
Dead easy phonics based literacy kit for dyslexics, dyspraxics, ADD and ADHD kids - Structured, Multi-Sensory phonics course.
Lets go back to traditional basics!
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“This has been written gradually during the 35 years that I have been working with...
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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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Auditory Processing Disorder
What is it? To best understand this first you have to take a look at how primates learn.
When primates are born only 20% of our brains are hard wired up. The rest is made up of millions of separate cells waiting for the baby to learn before they join themselves together. This is not the ca...
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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 >>
