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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I'm the PP whose son reads me poetry. We do it because he is (oddly) seriously into words - rhyming, puns. He always has been, so the inability to rhyme isn't part of his dyslexia. This is one reason why dyslexia is so difficult, because it presents in many different ways. He has terrible difficulty assigning meaning to symbols, and remembering the meaning - his working memory is very poor. So we read Where the Sidewalk Ends and Silvertein's other books (there are two other books of similar kids' poetry, the last of which is actually quite moving) because they are fun. I don't know that building the ability to rhyme, in particular, is important. I think lack of ability to rhyme in a kid with dyslexia is a symptom of a lack of ability to hear differences and similarities in the sounds of the parts of words. The O-T methodology works on building that very methodically, so I'd focus on getting her into an O-T program while reading out loud to her anything she enjoys - poems, magazines, Harry Potter, poop jokes...whatever holds her attention.[/quote]

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