Resources for parents to tutor dyslexic students themselves?

[Anonymous]

depending on where your niece lives, Scottish Rite may offer inexpensive or free tutoring for dyslexics

Flyleaf Publishing decodable readers are way more interesting than Bob, and working with my FD in those for months helped a LOT.

tutoring your own kid can strain your relationship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think you need fancy tutors. Our DS very easily could have been diagnosed with dyslexia in 1-4th grade; he was right on the edge. He was diagnosed with dysgraphia and dyslexia in 5th, but we always knew he struggled with reading. He definitely understands words and reads differently than we do. However, we just kept reading with him, he worked with our school literacy specialist, tried a tutor for a few months that he hated, etc, and then he finally found books he loved. Dog man and wimpy kids. We were adamant that he wouldn’t learn to hate reading, and that has made all the difference. He likes to read. Sometimes he still struggles with new words, so he is still working on it, but he likes to read, and that came from us reading with him, working through it, and still reading with him now. He went from below average to the 80th percentile on his MAP reading tests now.

Your child must have very mild dyslexia. This experience is not the norm. Most require significant remediation, working at least 3x a week with a certified structured literacy specialist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Probably an unpopular opinion, but I don’t think you need fancy tutors. Our DS very easily could have been diagnosed with dyslexia in 1-4th grade; he was right on the edge. He was diagnosed with dysgraphia and dyslexia in 5th, but we always knew he struggled with reading. He definitely understands words and reads differently than we do. However, we just kept reading with him, he worked with our school literacy specialist, tried a tutor for a few months that he hated, etc, and then he finally found books he loved. Dog man and wimpy kids. We were adamant that he wouldn’t learn to hate reading, and that has made all the difference. He likes to read. Sometimes he still struggles with new words, so he is still working on it, but he likes to read, and that came from us reading with him, working through it, and still reading with him now. He went from below average to the 80th percentile on his MAP reading tests now.

Your child must have very mild dyslexia. This experience is not the norm. Most require significant remediation, working at least 3x a week with a certified structured literacy specialist.

I’m PP. That’s fair, and I would agree he has mild dyslexia. Just chiming in, in case that’s the same for the OP. In that situation, parent tutoring/help is feasible.

[Anonymous]

Free resource for teens needing extra support with executive functioning planning:

https://www.precisionteachingacademy.com/resources