How to Teach Dyslexics

Dyslexia is a learning disablilty that involves problems with reading and language. Children with dyslexia have a hard time with sounds, writing and remembering and understanding what is said to them. Dyslexia can be mild or severe, but people with the disorder are can be taught different ways to learn.

Things You'll Need

• Books on tape
• Films
• Computer
• Musical instruments
• Art supplies
• Clay
• Pictures
• Video
• Highlighters
• Finger paint
• Puzzles
• Sand trays
• Paper with raised lines
• Attribute objects

Instructions

How to Teach Dyslexics

1. Use multisensory learning techniques that help students learn faster and easier by allowing them to use their strengths to solve problems, gather, learn and store information and find a link between new information and ideas they already understand.

2. Put pictures and written words on posters, projector screens and computers. Have children write letters and spell words by using a finger to write the letters in the air. Use a lot of color to organize and highlight information. Let children highlight words they think they may have misspelled. Adapt reading materials to fit the child's learning style. Use film and video. Let children create their own art, pictures, video and text.

3. Use learning methods that focus on sound. Books on tape, computer text readers, and reading with another child are helpful. Dyslexics learn well using songs, music, instruments and rhymes. They are usually very good speakers.

4. Use techniques that involve touch. They're very useful for math and to develop small motor skills. Use paper with raised lines, finger paints, puzzles, sand trays and modeling clay. Use small objects for counting, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. Use objects that have different textures, shapes and colors.

5. Teach with large and small body movements that pair learning activities like counting with clapping, stomping, jumping, throwing or dancing. Let children have academic competitions like flashcard races and current events quizzes.

Tips & Warnings

• Remember that Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison were dyslexic.

Resources

• Improving comprehension with graphic organizers