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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid says that the only sees parts of words at a time.  For example, if she looks at the word “teacher” she only sees “tea” or “er.”   She says she can’t make her eyes see all of the letters at once so she does a lot of guessing based on context.  She makes lots of mistakes where she’ll read something like “teacher” as “teaches,” “teach” or “teak.”

She says that tutoring isn’t really helping her because she already knows and understand the phonics rules, but when she moves her eyes across a sentence she literally can’t see a whole word at once.  If she reads very very slowly, she can sound things out….but she’s too impatient and eager to understand the text to move at that pace.

A pediatric eye doc said her vision is fine.

Does anyone else experience reading this way?  Her tutor seems to think this is common and is just continuing to teach her the phonics rules using OG methods.  [/quote]

This is why and how Orton Gillingham is built and works. It’s multi sensory. Sometimes maybe switching teachers - not all actually apply it well or might not click with your kid. LIndamood Bell is another multisensory program built on the same science. And there are a couple others. But it’s the only evidence based way of specifically teaching for dyslexia although many kids who have dyslexia end up learning to read by memorization and old school “whole word” reading like many of us did back in the 80s (I say this as someone with dyslexia and kid with moderate dyslexia who has gone though it all)[/quote]

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