How can I best help my dyslexic child?

Experts agree that best practice for teaching dyslexic learners is to teach them via all their senses (multisensory teaching). This means using visuals, motion, body movement, hands-on, and auditory elements in their learning. Studies have shown that dyslexic children draw from various regions in their brains while engaging in reading, so it stands to reason that using teaching approaches that stimulate various regions in the brain would ensure success for these learners.

8 Ways to Help Your Dyslexic Learner

1. Incorporate visual elements in learning
2.Involve body movement in learning
3. Use an explicit, systematic approach to teaching reading to be sure that everything
is taught that needs to be
4. Read out loud in order to utilize the auditory pathway to the brain
5. Utilize visuals in books and prompt the child to visualize in his mind as he reads
6. Summarize and give the big picture first - then start with the details
7. Focus on teaching phonemic awareness and manipulation
8. Use a multi-sensory teaching approach to reading (used all at one time)

“Children with dyslexia have a difficult time learning to read and write in a typical classroom setting. Most teachers often gear their lessons to students with auditory learning styles. The teacher relies mostly on talking to teach. Teachers lecture, explain and answer questions orally. The dyslexic learner cannot process this information using only his auditory modality. For this reason, dyslexic learners need to learn using an approach that simultaneously combines auditory, visual, and tactile learning strategies to teach skills and concepts."

~ Karina Richmond, MA
Pride Learning Center

How We Can Help You

Our products are multi-sensory which simply means that we have created materials that will utilize as many avenues to the brain as possible for the benefit of visual learners. Many children who have been labeled with a particular learning disability are actually highly visual learners who need multi-sensory instruction in reading. These identified disabilities include autism, Asperger's, and dyslexia.

Alphabet

ABCs taught through visuals, jingles, body motions, stories & hands-on activities so that all those left brained symbols are surrounded in wonderful right-brained elements.

Sight Words

SnapWords® (multisensory sight words) help visual, right-brained learners, and children with learning disabilities learn to read more easily. SnapWords® allow the mental camera to snap a picture of the words, a sentence on reverse lends meaning to the word while the body motion grabs those children that need some movement to learn! (kinesthetic learners)