Posted: Jan 07, 2011 11:29 am
I'm not dyslexic but I spent 3 years teaching my dyslexic son to read fluently, so I learnt a fair bit about the problems people face when they have trouble with the written word.
We used Toe-by-Toe, which was recommended by the Ed Psych who evaluated Alex when he was 8. At the time he had a reading age of 6.5 and was falling well behind his peers at school, by the time we had finished (and it seemed as though we never would!) he was 11, and had a reading age of 15. It also improved his spelling, not to mention his self-esteem.
Hajime, I'm glad to see you are getting help. Has anyone recommended you try coloured overlays for reading, seeing an optometrist to eliminate the possibility of sight inconsistencies being a factor (as with my son - his eyes do not 'track' consistently), or for that matter, Toe-by-Toe itself or something similar?
We used Toe-by-Toe, which was recommended by the Ed Psych who evaluated Alex when he was 8. At the time he had a reading age of 6.5 and was falling well behind his peers at school, by the time we had finished (and it seemed as though we never would!) he was 11, and had a reading age of 15. It also improved his spelling, not to mention his self-esteem.
Hajime, I'm glad to see you are getting help. Has anyone recommended you try coloured overlays for reading, seeing an optometrist to eliminate the possibility of sight inconsistencies being a factor (as with my son - his eyes do not 'track' consistently), or for that matter, Toe-by-Toe itself or something similar?