Dyslexic with poor auditory skills- pLEASE HELP!

Please give us his reading levels or any achiement scores in reading.

Janis

Not knowing anything else about him, I would suggest that you read the first three chapters of “Reading Reflex” by McGuiness and then give him the assessments in the book. I have had excellent success quickly with this kind of child using the Phono-Graphix approach, including children with auditory processing problems. “Reading Reflex” is widely available in libraries, and less than $20 in most bookstores.

Audio tapes and reading out loud to a child are wonderful ways of developing language, vocabulary and comprehension. However, they don’t do *anything* for teaching someone how to read. The read-along storybooks with audio tapes are not at all useful for teaching reading, although have some marginal use with some children after reading skills are acquired. I personally don’t like them, and find that having the child read out loud while you use proper error correction techniques achieves much more.

Nancy

Is that you, Nan? My, we do think alike. ;-)

You gotta remediate and not just accommodate. I asked reading levels as I assumed his poor academic performance can be traced back to poor decoding skills. He compensates to some degree because of his high intelligence. But he can’t make it through high school like that.

Janis

Well, you don’t gotta — lots of kids need it but never get it :-(
But you sure as shinola should.
How well does he read? And when and how do you “work with” him? Small group? 1:1? Inclusion?
What other baggage does he have? Which is to say, he’s “not succeeding” acadmically… where is his attitude? Winning his trust is rather an important part of this process — giving him a say in what he’s doing (which may mean being creatively persuasive so that his “say” is something that’s good) is also very important.

Sue, I wish you were still in the southeast. I’d like to meet you for things like IDA conferences! :D

Janis