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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter was just identified as dyslexic, low working memory (8th percentile) and to have an auditory processing delay.

I am just learning how to best support her. It seems like many of the recommendations encourage “ear reading” vs “eye reading.” How does this play out thought if a child also had APD? [/quote]

My Dc with very severe dyslexia probably also had some auditory issues as he mumbled and could it be understood, even by me, for a long time and he gets similar sounding words mixed up. His working memory was also in the single digits.  The latter could be RAN issues which is part of his dyslexia. He did very well with audio books.

How does your child do when you read them a story? How do they do with listening to a book on car rides?  I think you can experiment.  [/quote]

Good question, I have been reading Harry Potter to both kids and we are on book 7. After I disclosed to DD that she had been identified as dyslexic she shared a few things and one of them was “You read Harry Potter too fast for me to keep up when the plot has a lot going on.”

I am glad she felt comfortable sharing that because I can certainly slow down my pace. We hadn’t done a lot of audiobooks before so we will be experimenting with them. I can slow down the speed.

Currently I am reading The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan and the author spends a lot of time talking about how he trained himself to ear read at a much faster pace so that he could keep up with what his peers were able to eye read for academic content and it made me wonder since she has an auditory processing delay. [/quote]

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