Wondering if Your Child is Dyslexic?
Is my pre-school age child dyslexic? He writes some letters and numbers backwards.
Most children under age 6 do not have the brain development to read and write correctly. It is not unusual for them to reverse letters and numbers and to confuse words. This is the time to focus on such pre-reading skills as story telling, creative play and motor skill Development, rather than on reading skills.
The LD Coach™ website discusses the traits and behaviors of dyslexic learners. Read: “ The 2-Dimensional Challenge of Written Words Causes the Learning Problems of Dyslexia” “and the 2 assessment tests in the section, “ Assess Your Child”
Books to read to learn about early development and brain function development:J. Healy, Your Child’s Growing Mind.J. Chilton-Pearce, The Magical Child.
My child has been labeled with a learning disability. Is he dyslexic?
The LD Coach™ provides a list of common learning disability labels that are used to identify dyslexic children, children whose learning styles do not fit the educational tools being used to help them learn. Most of these labels refer to aspects of the same underlying problem, dyslexia. Read the article: “ Dyslexia in Children” and see if your child’s learning disability label is listed among the 86 labels listed there. If so, the MELT™ techniques could help your child improve his ability to learn to read and write in school. This program will help your child resolve the underlying cause of his non-productive learning behaviors.
My child has trouble learning and no one can identify what needs to be done for him. What do I do to help him?
The difficulty with the identification of the problem is that “labels” are often inaccurate and/or limit the action taken to help the student. It is wisest to focus on finding solutions that work. So, you are fortunate that your child is not “stuck” with a “label” so far and you can move on to finding a solution that works.
On the LD Coach™ website read the articles: “ What Causes the Learning Problems of Dyslexia?” and “ Dyslexia in Children" for information about the underlying causes of learning problems your child may have. Read the MELT™ instructional articles: “Character Command,” “Integration and Posture,” “Reading, Rhythm and Punctuation,” and “Tune In & Turn On” for information about developing learning skills that help dyslexics gain command of written characters and words, and help them to reduce stress and promote their brain integration so that they can learn successfully.
Why do some school districts and some educational and psychological experts say that dyslexia doesn’t exist?
Dyslexia is the confusion of the senses. Whether the sense involved is sight, hearing, touch, taste, timing, balance, movement, rhythm, temperature variation, or intuition, when the dyslexic gets confused, a myriad of things can be changed or altered within each sensory system. As a result, there are no two cases of dyslexia that are alike (read: “ What Causes the Learning Problems of Dyslexia?”) and scientific study of dyslexia is difficult. As scientific studies continue to discover more about dyslexia, more labels are developed to describe the many kinds of dyslexic patterns that science finds. ( 86 labels for dyslexia are listed in the article: “ Dyslexia in Children”)
Because of the inconsistencies in finding a specific dyslexic pattern that can be applied to every child, some educators and researchers say that dyslexia does not exist. However, this decision does not eliminate the fact that when the brain of an individual becomes dis-integrated to the point that he cannot correctly process sensory input and cannot learn, he is stuck in a state of confusion that we call dyslexia.
Are there specialized schools for children with learning disabilities?
Children with learning disabilities have the same legal rights as learning enabled students in the school systems. They are entitled to being provided with individualized and specialized programs which enable them to learn successfully.
The difficulty is finding the program that will help your child to resolve the underlying barriers to his successful learning, rather than give him tutoring, drills, and ineffective tools to use. The dyslexic student is gifted in his own way and needs teaching tools and skills that make use of his style of learning.
At this LD Coach website, we offer the MELT™ techniques for teaching dyslexic students to gain command of sight words, abstract characters and written symbols like numbers and punctuation marks. The MELT™ techniques enable students to know how to do well in their school classroom. The MELT™ techniques are unique and can be learned at home.
The set of books, The Learning to Read Program, are the educational industry’s most creative, one-of-a-kind tool for teaching dyslexics to read written characters and words. For information about these books and the MELT™ techniques read: The Learning to Read Program and “ What Causes the Learning Problems of Dyslexia?”
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