Is anyone one dyslexic?. I would like to know more about how you handle it. My 7 yr old son appears to be too.

Question

HE hasnt been labled yet, but has all the classic signs. He really can not read much at all and he is 7....He is now being taught Wilson reading but doesnt appear to be helping much. Will he read? what helped you the most?..Any advice?

Answer 1

I have dislexia, and when I was a child I had horrible spelling and could not read well. I went undiagnosed for quite sometime because my parents did not understand that I really had a problem. Some of my problems were spelling, reading, and Math, math was my worst subject because I would jumble numbers writing the math problems. It was actually discovered in High school when I would constantly write math problems off of the board and I would write them backwards, I rarely got and answer correct and even tutoring did not help me.

The pro to having dislexia if you want to call it good at all, is that I have an uncanny ability to memorize. I would win most of the contest in school and at church when it came to memorization. I always had someone read it to me aloud several times and then, because I did not want to have to read it again myself, I would memorize what the words were, but that did not help me in matters of answering questions after a chapter was read in a book, and I failed a lot of test.

Perhaps the hardest part of dislexia when I was a child, was reading aloud, because I could barely read.

It does get better, and today I write poetry, and I love to blog and I read lots and lots of books. The best way to overcome dislexia is to keep reading, but you can only push your child so far. You have to be careful. There are self help courses out there, and the schools usually have special programs for children to help them, and most children are able to get past it. there are cases where dislexia is more severe and harder to help, but they can be helped regardless, he just need apply himself, and at seven he may feel very frustrated.

Dislexia affects more boys than girls.
It can be very embarrassing.
In a world feeled with words it can be very overwelming.

Give your son time and space and he will learn, and just remember it may be more on his terms than yours. His world is a bit jumbled

Oh and some people who have dislexia have a tendancy to mix words up when they talk.

I hope that I have helped some.

Answer 2

I am not dyslexic but have a similair sequencing problem. I handled it fine until I hit school and the school's system was different from what my father (a former teacher) had been teaching me at home. I can't "sound it out" which is a standard in most classrooms, the concept alone confused me. I pretty much learned "this jumble of letters is this word" luckily for me I always see the words jumbled in the same way like "Stop" I read as "Ptos". It took me YEARS to learn to spell, I was never thought to be good in written language until I reached university when I got out of that cookie cutter education model.

My best advice, find a center, school or tutor that uses different approaches to learning. Cycle through different methods until you find the one that works for him. I finished my BSc with an 88% average over all ranking 16th in my class. Your son can do the same if he is shown a learning method that works for him. Try asking your doctor for help as a starting point.

Answer 3

I don't know what Wilson reading is, but I suspect that it is an alternative program.

My grandson had a special reading teacher. It sure helped! He will never be a great reader, but he does okay. Not great at spelling, either. But then, I see lots of ppl who can't spell.

Be prepared to have tutors available to help along the way. Work with him on homework, and have lots of patience, too.

Answer 4

I am dyslexic and when i was about 7 i had troubles reading but then my mother decided to read with me for half an hr a night. By the time i was in the 7th grade i had a 12th grade reading level.

Answer 5

i saw this new technique on the news the other night which they said effectively cures the problem.. it had something to do with these weird kind of colored glasses which instantly stopped the problem by somehow confusing the brain or something..i hope this may help, i was not really paying full attention to the news item at the time..try a search on this..cheers

Answer 6

Look on GOOGLE, type in dyslexia and you'll find all the info that people haven't even told you yet. There's help out there...