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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I have a dyslexic child and work in education, my daughter attends private school and does well, but this is due to the fact that her elementary school class has only eight children in it. The small size, personnel instruction and the fact her third grade teacher had experience with dyslexia due to her niece being dyslexic helped my child immensely. The sad truth is public schools now do a "one size all" approach for children struggling to read. [b]Dyslexics learn to read much better using sight words[/b] and a tactile activity for each letter sound. Some of the activities my daughters teacher would do for example is have her write the letter in sand and then form the letter using small beads or shells then go over the letter sound. Another thing that helped my daughter is the English teacher there knew latin and she taught my daughter latin root words, though my daughter is now going into 10th grade she still credits her elementary teachers for being able to read at grade level though a bit slower then some peers. So in short [b]learning many many more sight words then average[/b], tactile instruction for each letter sound and shape, and if you are able to latin root words, my daughter said this made the biggest difference for her and enabled her to be able to read /decode a lot of words. She loves latin so much she is actually taking it in High School because it made such a big difference. 
 Get your child into a small school or if possible a dyslexic school, I personally was unable to afford a private dyslexic school and there are none in my area but was Blessed to have a small private school with teachers whom cared and had experience with dyslexia. 
 I have to bite my tongue at work, when I identify a clearly dyslexic student and they give that student the same instruction as any other child needing support. I see the frustration for that child and I know why it isn't working but my hands are tied. These schools today Identify almost anyone with a reading issue as dyslexic but that's just not true and dyslexics require a very specific type of learning method. [/quote]

This is not true. [/quote]

Actually this is very true, Dyslexics have a much higher visual/spatial awareness then others and they do not compartmentalize information so they make connections that many people do not make.  [/quote]

DP - please provide peer-reviewed citations for the above claims.  [/quote]

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