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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a typical presentation when a child is being treated for dyslexia or dyslexia-type concerns. Parents love OG-based programs, but they really don't address spelling sufficiently and only do so late in the remediation process. For this reason, you'll see if fairly often that parents here have continued concerns with encoding (spelling). Consider a speech to print approach rather than print to speech, such as OG.[/quote]

With OP's clarification, this doesn't sound like dyslexia.

OG, and other similar programs, do a great job of teaching kids to combine sounds to read words, and to break down words into sounds which is an important part of spelling.  It helps kids who reverse sounds in words (e.g. cab for back) or omit sounds (bakit for blanket) or change sounds (bad for bed), and generally gets kids to the point where spell check is super helpful.  But the reality is that English has a lot of ways to spell the same sound, and also words that just don't follow the rules at all, and OG doesn't do a good job of teaching you which variant spelling for that sound makes sense, or when to make an exception.  So, you might learn the rule that you don't end a word in C, which will help you remember to spell back instead of bac.  But it won't help you spell Iraq, or public.  Or you might learn that ee and ea both make the long e sound, but it won't help you remember that it's team but not teem.

Because of this, many people with dyslexia will continue to need lots of experience reading, and explicit instruction in spelling after their gap in reading has narrowed.

Again though, this doesn't sound like it's OP's kid.  [/quote]

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