Activities for dyslexic students?

Question

I work at an Afterschool Program. I havea dyslexic student, and we have no activities for hi to work on during homework time. I need a bunch of activities that are fun, safe and educational. Can anone help me? PLEASE????

Answer 1

I am not sure what you mean by after school program, is this a Home work group or a After school activities program, where students are in a safe place, while their parents are at work?

If a home work program
The Gift of Dyslexia, By Ron Davis, with Eldon Braunis an excellent book that has some skills/methods and information for parents, tutors and teachers, working with the dyslexic student.

Other books recommended for teachers see below link

http://www.dyslexia.com/cgi-bin/shopper.cgi?
keywords=classroom&search=action

The biggest thing to do with a dyslexic student is;

Focus on students strengths, and work on weaknesses.
Never single them out as being different, adds to their thrustration.
Support them under stand how thrustrating it can be when they don't understand a question (it can take 3 times as long, before they understand what a question means, or what is being asked of them). You may need to define, clarify, identify and explain meaing of words etc.
Give them a little extra time, when doing home and assignments, check there progress regularly, (maybe a draft copy to be handed in before the final is due).
Rather than make a big deal about spelling mistakes, ask them to underline words that they know are wrong (worked very well for my dyslexic daughter) You can then correct it when marking. She then noted it in a note book, with the meaning so she had a reference.
When handing out class notes, use coloured paper instead, you have chack with the student, what colour suits, them for my daughter and I its a buff coloured paper.
When writting on the blackboard/white board use different colours for each paragraph, so the dyslexic students can keep track of where they are, especially if class is taking notes of the board. (The teacher who did this for my daughter reported to me, that she found that students who normally had trouble keeping up with seamed to keep up).
When class is reading out loud, encourage them to try small paragraphs, praise all students even if read haltingly, but never force students to read if they find it really difficult.

As for activities dyslexic children need to interact with other children, and offer varied activities, that keep them moving, this may include arts/crafts, cooking, sports etc.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Dyslexia has to do with how the brain organizes what the eyes see and the ears hear. The condition is such that traditional methods of teaching reading will not work with a person with dyslexia. However, dyslexics may be taught to read and write with proper instruction.
This usually involves multi-sensory approaches. You want to research some of the following programs:
Wilson Reading System
Waterford Early Reading System
Voyager Passport
Success For All
These are all researched based program proven to work with this disability.

Answer 4

There are lots of kinds of dyslexia! The most common problem that occurs is the confusion of b's and d's, p's and q's. I made up a little trick. I have the students make fists and put their thumbs up in the air with their fists touching in front of them. The left fist and thumb look like a b and the right looks like a d when their thumbs are pointed up. When their thumbs are pointed down with their knuckles still touching the left fist and thumb look like a p and the right looks like a q. The trick is to say that "The bad dog likes the pretty queen" :
bd bad dog and pq pretty queen have their first letters pictured by the thumbs and fists.
I've never written about this...only showed it. Hope it is understandable.

This trick can be used whenever there is a question about any of these four letters.
Sometimes to practice these difficult letters I'll make an 10 letter jump using these letters and g which has a swoop at the bottom to keep it special. When he or she is good at the jump...using cool stickies on the carpet, then I change the jump to two letter stickies such as bp. When they can do that then I make three- letter silly words such as "bip". There is always a reward at the end of the jump and usually rewards along the way. They need to use their thumbs and fists on each card till their brains can differentiate the letters consistently.

Answer 5

Are you saying that he doesn't have any homework because he's dyslexic? Or just that you need to learn how to help him?

I would say call his teacher for the second option.

For the first one, I would suggest art projects. Dyslexia and artistic talent are often genetically linked. Have his mom bring/buy some "how to draw" books and research some good art things to do.

In addition you can assign him projects to work on around the program. (you don't say how old he is). Outdoor garden work, indoor reorganization of shelves, and so on, can be productive and keep him busy.

Answer 6

First, how old is the student, what grade is he in? Next, contact the teacher and ask for specific work to do with him. The teacher should be able to provide this to you along with helpful instructions.

If the teacher can't or won't help you, then I suggest you try activities which involve movement of his whole body, music, rhythym or games in which he manipulates real objects pictures of objects around. As you have provided us no information on what level he is at (can he read a little, not at all?) I can't really give you specific suggestions. If you want to email me off-line with some more information, I'll be happy to give you lots of activities to do.

But contact his teachers!

Answer 7

You may want to look into the REAL GAME Curriculum. I use this with special education students, which many of them are dyslexic BTW. It iss educational, meets standars, and helps prepare youth for employment and develop career awareness. http://www.realgame.com/

Answer 8

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Answer 9

If its homework time--he should be doing homework, just like any other student. If he needs some assitive technology for that or other activities--that's YOUR responsibility (legally as welll as ethically). Inother words--treat him like a person. Why is that so hard for you "teachers" to understand?

Answer 10

Learn the lyrics of a song or structured poetry.
The color word game is good too.

Statistically they have above average IQs.