Reply to Severe Dyslexia- Outside School Support

Forum Index » Kids With Special Needs and Disabilities

Reply to "Severe Dyslexia- Outside School Support "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]The "best" option, as others have already noted, is also going to be the most expensive--5x a week with a specialized private OG tutor. In theory, you'd think you could find a tutor to come 1x a week, and give you lesson plans to follow for the other 4 days, but I've never heard a tutor suggest that. You'd also think the school would work with you, so that you could coordinate your lessons with their pull outs, but public schools won't want to acknowledge that their instruction time is insufficient.

So, the other option is to tutor your own child, using materials you pick out. You're getting a lot of program names thrown at you--from general umbrella terms (OG) to a specific workbook series (Dancing Bears). One of the main differences between programs is how remedial vs. general audience they are.  If you have a child who you think needs intensive intervention, and can't afford a tutor, Wilson and Barton are both programs you can buy online, and use as a parent. (By contrast, if you want to do ASDEC, for example, you'll need to find one of their tutors, or take the training yourself.) Wilson and Barton's materials will be extremely detailed and structured--that's the entire point of the programs. Using Wilson or Barton all the way through will be a real time commitment--5x a week, for years. You'd never use these programs for a child without a language based disability. The "good" is that they can work. The "bad" is that they're a slog.

You can also try to start with a less intensive program.  All About Reading (and its companion, All About Spelling) is also OG based--explicit, structured, phonetic based instruction. You can buy online, and the teacher guide will provide detailed, easy to follow instructions. But, it's not as slow and intensive. It can be good for kids with dyslexia, but is also targeted for a general audience, so the "downside" can be that it might be less effective, and your child might ultimately need a more intensive program.

I'm saying all of this as the parent of a child with (then-undiagnosed) dyslexia who was in first grade when Covid hit, and in-person tutors weren't an option.  We threw everything at the wall. We did the random workbooks, the oral reading, the Dancing Bears, Lexia, All About Spelling, Lindamood Bell.  Not to mention attempts with online tutors--not usually a great option for a young kid. (Of these, I would only recommend All About Spelling.)

In hindsight, and this is also what any OG tutor (including those at ASDEC) will tell you--it's best to pick one program, one approach, and stick with it. Which is hard--when you don't know which approach will work best, or how much intensive help is needed!
It's also a question of what time commitment you can make, and how well suited your temperament is to tutoring your child.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics