Dyslexia on Wis. Public Radio from 10/20/08

Kathleen Dunn: After ten, Kathleen Dunn and her guests examine the learning disability dyslexia (diss-LEKS-ee-ah), and discuss how children can get help at home and school to excel in education and employment. Guests:
- Sara Pace, Director, Milwaukee Masonic Learning Center for Children.
- Cheryl Ward, Vice President, Wisconsin Branch, International Dyslexia Association.

An interesting website for parents about school...

Parents in Education - This is not specifically about Dyslexia but looks like an easy to use site to learn more about the school system's workings and how parents can get the help they need for kids.

Talking Dictionary

I went to Border's to buy the Franklin Spelling Ace, but they didn't have this model. Instead, I found this Talking Dictionary. My daughter has already had a lot of fun with it! Great for checking to see if you have the right word because it speaks the word and can also speak the definition. It's also good for learning parts of speech, and just checking spelling. I think we might keep this one at home and get the Spelling Ace to keep at school.

School Accommodations - a list / article

From a parent's blog - help at school

Keyboarding

McCabe's Keyboarding - looks interesting and logical... build on success.

The Whirlwind of Discovery...We DON'T read left to right - we need to go back and forth! (Digraph Diamonds)

I am learning so much and I feel I has so much to learn! Things need to make SENSE for people with dyslexia to learn. We need to teach and learn the rules of language explicitly. Here are a few more discoveries:

Signs of Dyslexia (excerpted from Dr. Sally's book)

A good video here about Teaching Dyslexia which explains that there are about a ZILLION rules for English... I also learned from watching this that English is not just read from left to right. You also have to look at the END of a word to know how to pronounce the beginning of the word. Think of silent e. Thnk of how the multi-syllable words CHANGE the pronunciation of the early vowels. Even look at the word "early" -- the "e" is changed by the "a", so you can't just look from left to right! Think of the the word "partition." How do you know how to pronounce the second "ti" without looking at the "on" ending?

CTOPP Test (not free, but recommended)

CTOPP -