Comments on: Reading and spelling with Dyslexia http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/ Learning difficulties including dyslexia. Download testing sheets Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:30:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Shameem http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-18509 Shameem Thu, 29 Jul 2010 04:10:02 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-18509 Hi thanks for al the ppl who has shared experience, I am a special educator, working with children with dyslexia. The comments of parents and teachers boosting me to work better. Hi thanks for al the ppl who has shared experience, I am a special educator, working with children with dyslexia. The comments of parents and teachers boosting me to work better.

]]> By: Joanna http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-18187 Joanna Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:51:36 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-18187 Hi, I have a nine year old son who finds reading and writing very difficult. He has struggled to be organised, to be able to find objects, has very slow processing but emotionally he is very intelligent and his general knowledge and intuition is good. We have recently swapped from a school that uses thrass (too hard to rote learn) to the spalding technique. Because he can see the big picture and because spalding uses rules to remember phonograms and spelling its become much easier for him. He has been there for only 6 months and has improved. We are going to try the Allison Lawson Centre for the ten week course. They say they can cure visual dyslexia. I am a bit dubious but willing to try anything. It is like he cant see the words when he is reading and loses concentration very quickly. When he looks out the car window he misses things so perhaps he does have something going on with his vision. We will let you know if your interested Hi, I have a nine year old son who finds reading and writing very difficult. He has struggled to be organised, to be able to find objects, has very slow processing but emotionally he is very intelligent and his general knowledge and intuition is good. We have recently swapped from a school that uses thrass (too hard to rote learn) to the spalding technique. Because he can see the big picture and because spalding uses rules to remember phonograms and spelling its become much easier for him. He has been there for only 6 months and has improved. We are going to try the Allison Lawson Centre for the ten week course. They say they can cure visual dyslexia. I am a bit dubious but willing to try anything. It is like he cant see the words when he is reading and loses concentration very quickly. When he looks out the car window he misses things so perhaps he does have something going on with his vision. We will let you know if your interested

]]> By: Antonia Canaris http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-18080 Antonia Canaris Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:18:12 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-18080 Hi Carmeline I would be pleased to help your son. I am a special education teacher with experience helping adults and children with dyslexia. Please ring me on 0414760663 if you need assistance. I am in Sydney working in Bexley Nth near the station. Hi Carmeline

I would be pleased to help your son. I am a special education teacher with experience helping adults and children with dyslexia. Please ring me on 0414760663 if you need assistance. I am in Sydney working in Bexley Nth near the station.

]]> By: Carmeline http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-18004 Carmeline Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:45:32 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-18004 Hello, My son has just graduated as a Design Communication Specialist, however he is not motivated to go out there and get a job in his field because he has had to deal with his dyslexia and it is a necessary tool to read and write in his job. i am looking for someone who can help him overcome his problem and give him some confidence. He is 30 years old, and I am getting worried that he is overly depressed and might do something to himself. please please help me or email me to cheetah56@bigpond.com if you have any info that can assist me. We live in Quakers Hill, NSW. Thanks. Hello,

My son has just graduated as a Design Communication Specialist, however he is not motivated to go out there and get a job in his field because he has had to deal with his dyslexia and it is a necessary tool to read and write in his job. i am looking for someone who can help him overcome his problem and give him some confidence. He is 30 years old, and I am getting worried that he is overly depressed and might do something to himself. please please help me or email me to cheetah56@bigpond.com if you have any info that can assist me. We live in Quakers Hill, NSW. Thanks.

]]> By: natasha http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-17740 natasha Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:53:22 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-17740 I . have a daughter she is 8 going on 9, her problem is that she cannot spell words properly, her father and grandmother had the same problem she' has as i say spelling and reading problem .It's hard concentrating sometimes for her 'sometimes if she is going to say a word instead she say's something else.For test if her teacher don't read out the questions for her she's at lost .Her teacher says she knows her work especially she's good in maths but reading is her hardest part.When she revise her work she soon forgets easily .Please advice me what i can do. I . have a daughter she is 8 going on 9, her problem is that she cannot spell words properly, her father and grandmother had the same problem she’ has as i say spelling and reading problem .It’s hard concentrating sometimes for her ‘sometimes if she is going to say a word instead she say’s something else.For test if her teacher don’t read out the questions for her she’s at lost .Her teacher says she knows her work especially she’s good in maths but reading is her hardest part.When she revise her work she soon forgets easily .Please advice me what i can do.

]]> By: June http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-17592 June Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:55:53 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-17592 Hi, I am 54 years old, live in the UK and have suffered from dyslexia all my life and has been passed down to my children and grandchildren. When I was young there was no 'lable' for people such as myself who struggled daily with reading, writing and arithmetic we were just 'dumb or stupid'. I can clearly remember homework nights being reduced to floods of tears as my mother screamed in my ear to "read what's on the page!" And many of my school days were spent not in the classroom but out in the outside toilets - unblocking them and scrubbing the sinks! By age 15 I left school but I had a great desire to become a nurse. However I had no qualifications so went to a pre-nursing college were there was a tutor who had an amazing ability to get me to understand arithmetic and English and I walked out of the college 2 1/2 years later with 6 O Level certificates! I did go into nursing and I passed with flying colours - I was second in my class! I continued to do well in my career and climbed to the position of Matron. As the years went by I volunteered to help children to read and found I could pick out a dyslexic child very easily but what was even better was the fact that I could teach that child without difficulty. From this I went abroad and taught English as a second language and again my own dyslexia helped me help the children with dyslexia. Now I am back home and I am helping my 8 year old graddaughter who has dyslexia too. She is a very bright very smart child and I know she will do well in life. The saddest part for me is that all these years down the line the education authorities have made poor headway in helping dyslexic children quoting reasons such as lack of funding for their poor assistance. And there are still 'uneducated' teachers who refuse to accept there is such a thing as dyslexia. So for a lot of people with learning difficulties, sadly it is still an uphill struggle. I class my life as successful and I like the way my brain works now that I have sussed out how to get it to work in my favour! So for all sufferers and parents of sufferers - keep working at your own pace - you will get there - you're not dumb or stupid - quite the opposite in fact - and although you may have to work harder it will all fall into place in the end. Hi, I am 54 years old, live in the UK and have suffered from dyslexia all my life and has been passed down to my children and grandchildren. When I was young there was no ‘lable’ for people such as myself who struggled daily with reading, writing and arithmetic we were just ‘dumb or stupid’. I can clearly remember homework nights being reduced to floods of tears as my mother screamed in my ear to “read what’s on the page!” And many of my school days were spent not in the classroom but out in the outside toilets – unblocking them and scrubbing the sinks! By age 15 I left school but I had a great desire to become a nurse. However I had no qualifications so went to a pre-nursing college were there was a tutor who had an amazing ability to get me to understand arithmetic and English and I walked out of the college 2 1/2 years later with 6 O Level certificates! I did go into nursing and I passed with flying colours – I was second in my class! I continued to do well in my career and climbed to the position of Matron. As the years went by I volunteered to help children to read and found I could pick out a dyslexic child very easily but what was even better was the fact that I could teach that child without difficulty. From this I went abroad and taught English as a second language and again my own dyslexia helped me help the children with dyslexia.
Now I am back home and I am helping my 8 year old graddaughter who has dyslexia too. She is a very bright very smart child and I know she will do well in life. The saddest part for me is that all these years down the line the education authorities have made poor headway in helping dyslexic children quoting reasons such as lack of funding for their poor assistance. And there are still ‘uneducated’ teachers who refuse to accept there is such a thing as dyslexia. So for a lot of people with learning difficulties, sadly it is still an uphill struggle.
I class my life as successful and I like the way my brain works now that I have sussed out how to get it to work in my favour! So for all sufferers and parents of sufferers – keep working at your own pace – you will get there – you’re not dumb or stupid – quite the opposite in fact – and although you may have to work harder it will all fall into place in the end.

]]> By: michael http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-17566 michael Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:47:09 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-17566 what would you charge per hour for tutor someone with this problem what would you charge per hour for tutor someone with this problem

]]> By: Jenny http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-17559 Jenny Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:13:10 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-17559 I need help! I am a sixth grade teacher who has a dyslexic student, or so the parents have told me. This is my dilema, he reads really well and seems to have great comprehension. His spelling....yikes. I don't even know where to begin. Even the phonetic awareness is unusual. Any suggestions? I need help! I am a sixth grade teacher who has a dyslexic student, or so the parents have told me. This is my dilema, he reads really well and seems to have great comprehension. His spelling….yikes. I don’t even know where to begin. Even the phonetic awareness is unusual. Any suggestions?

]]> By: Dawn http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-17414 Dawn Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:04:28 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-17414 Hi Karen, If your son writes and spells the way words are spoken then he is not able to recall the look of a word, and this is dyslexic in nature. He needs t be taught phonics and all words that do not obey phonics, like "once", "who", "what" etc. need to be drastically over-learnt. I Call these "stupid words" meaning the words are stupid rather than the kid. I have written a fun phonics course, which can be bought down loadable from this site. This is what i use to teach kids who needs to sound out words. If this is used in combination with the fun dictionary, a freebee and the game for learning to write fun sentences, The kids do improve. There are lots and lots of more advice in my book Dyslexia-how to win. I wrote the book because I just do not have time to tell everything I know to every person one at a time. His reading sounds good. that is great. Make sure he comprehends well. He sounds as though he is a very bright boy. Make sure you concentrate on his strengths and do not over focus on what he is poor at. Good luck Dawn Hi Karen,
If your son writes and spells the way words are spoken then he is not able to recall the look of a word, and this is dyslexic in nature.
He needs t be taught phonics and all words that do not obey phonics, like “once”, “who”, “what” etc. need to be drastically over-learnt. I Call these “stupid words” meaning the words are stupid rather than the kid.

I have written a fun phonics course, which can be bought down loadable from this site. This is what i use to teach kids who needs to sound out words. If this is used in combination with the fun dictionary, a freebee and the game for learning to write fun sentences, The kids do improve. There are lots and lots of more advice in my book Dyslexia-how to win. I wrote the book because I just do not have time to tell everything I know to every person one at a time.

His reading sounds good. that is great. Make sure he comprehends well.
He sounds as though he is a very bright boy. Make sure you concentrate on his strengths and do not over focus on what he is poor at.
Good luck
Dawn

]]> By: Antonia Canaris http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/2006/12/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/comment-page-1/#comment-17399 Antonia Canaris Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:04:57 +0000 http://www.dyslexia-testing.com.au/wordpress/index.php/2006/12/19/reading-and-spelling-with-dyslexia/#comment-17399 Hi Renee I just saw your post. I hope you are still looking at this fantastic site. Please contact me. I will try to find someone to help you. It can be very frustrating to have to battle through the systems in a new city and country. I live and work in Sydney so I might be able to help you. mobile no 0414760663 Hi Renee
I just saw your post. I hope you are still looking at this fantastic site. Please contact me. I will try to find someone to help you. It can be very frustrating to have to battle through the systems in a new city and country.

I live and work in Sydney so I might be able to help you.
mobile no 0414760663

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