Wilson Reading?

There is a page somewhere on this website that lists different multi-sensory reading programs and gives short descriptions of them. There used to be a link to it off the main home page. If you can’t find it, I’ll see what I can do.

You also might find some useful articles in the “LD in Depth” section of this website.

Although some children make slow, steady progress with Wilson, I would not consider it a first choice. Especially for a parent tutoring at home, my absolute first choice would be the Phono-Graphix approach as outlined in the book, “Reading Reflex”, by Carmen & Geoffrey McGuiness. The book is $16 at most bookstores and is all you need, although there are supplementary materials available at their website, http://www.readamerica.net

Mary

Kelly:

I’m new to this forum and I’ve been reading some of the messages and I am curious to find out what Wilson Reading is . I have a 6 year old who is LD/ADD ,and will be just entering Kindergarten,I’m going to be homeschooling him and I would like to try to teach him to read this year.So if you have any suggestions I would graetly appreciate them.

I think he may be a bit young for Wilson. I think “Recipe for Reading” another O-G based program is more appropriate for younger children. Another program might be Explode the Code and Primary Phonics. You can order any one of these programs through Educators Publishing Service (www.eps.com).

What specifically are his learning disabilities? You may want to consider purchasing the preschool version of Fast ForWord, which may improve auditory processing skills.

Marilyn

Your son is so young and many 6 year olds do not read. How is it you know that reading will be one of his issues?

Whether he goes to be an easily successful reader or not, the old suggestion of reading outloud to him as often as possible is never a bad one. Even children with learning differences benefit from being “flooded” with language opportunities. Reading outloud - reading outloud with intentionality - just can’t hurt. It also can’t hurt to rent or buy some books that have audio tapes to go along with them. As the tape reads the book to him, he can be reading or paging along with it and so seeing the words while he listens to them.

Another idea that keeps getting suggested to me for my dyslexic son, is to purchase a television that scrolls the words of dialogue along the bottom. Supposedly there are such tvs - I’ve seen one at a local YMCA. It would give them another opportunity to see the written language as they hear it and possibly help to build the link to reading. But I have no idea of the cost of such tvs.

Mary……Thank you for the information. I just found this place yesturday ,so I will check it out a little more today ,and maybe I will come across information I’m looking for .

Sara, Actually reading probably won’t be one of his strong areas , and he may not learn right away,and if he don’t “thats ok”, but he’s got to start somewhere.He knows all his letters and letter sounds and I read to him all the time .I have’nt tried the books and audiotapes ,and thank you for the idea ,thats why I posted this message to get ideas !

Are you the Kelly Taylor who lived in Boynton Beach? If so, you know me. I have Reading Reflex if you want to look at it. I know Wilson therapists in our area too.

all tv’s have the ability to have words scrolling along the bottom, thanks to our deaf friends, this is now a mandatory feature on most tv’s, check your owner’s manual, but not all shows subscribe to the service, the main stations all do such as abc, nbc and cbs,

get someone at your Y to show you how to turn substitles on and off, it is easy,

but if your son cannot read, the speed of the words is very fast and since a computer interprets the speech, many words are done phonetically and make it difficult to read even for the quick reader,

names are always wrong and some longer words get lost in the translation as well, this feature was meant to help the deaf view tv and that is what it is good for, probably not to help a nonreader, good luck

WIlson was originally designed for older kids and adults — one of the reasons it is good for slow & steady progress is that it’s designed to “unteach” bad habits… which your kiddo probably doesn’t have! (Thank goodness for small favors, right?) It’s also not something you get off the shelf and apply yourself — you’d want/need training to make sense of the structure and the multisensory teaching methods.

Wilson is just one of a family of “Multisensory Structured Language” programs that have been proven highly effective in getting kids with LDs reading. If you go to the “Reading” section of LD In Depth there is an article about it. There is also an article about MSSL programs on my site at http://www.resourceroom.net — and lots of other resources homeschoolers have found useful. MSSL programs were designed specifically with kids with dyslexia in mind, so there is a lot of structure and practice, and specific multisensory techniques which are aimed at dealing with kids’ processing problems. Feel free to e-mail me with specific questions about them. There’s also a parents e-mail group of homeschoolers that trades ideas for using MSSL programs at home — email me and I’ll give you the address (it’s long & I don’t remember it ;)).

It would be a great idea to check out the local branch of your INternational Dyslexia ASsociation (check out “finding help” on this site and the state-by-state resources, or the IDA website at http://www.interdys.org) and see what they have to offer for teaching you to teach your kid to read. Depending on where you are there may be weekend workshops that will give you tons of ideas. Usually these workshops have mostly teachers— and a few parents who feel the need to know just what this stuff is all about.

There’s a little section of links on my site, too, about homeschooling kids with LDs — they’re an excellent way to find out what other folks have already learned.

I did’nt think about the t.v. ,thats a good idea if I could keep him interested and maybe he could reconize some words on there while watching t.v. .I do have some phonic books and computer phonic learning games that he likes to play, Anything to keep him interested in learning!

Hi Kelly,
My daughter has been in the Wilson program for three years. She is making
progress but it is painfully slow. She will be entering 6th grade; reading level
is around 3rd grade. She is LD/ADD. I have to tell you that I find this
program very difficult to follow. I’m college educated (an RN) and it confuses the heck out of me! LOL
Not just anyone can teach Wilson. You have to be certified or something…sorry, I don’t know the correct education lingo…anyway…it seems to have
given my daughter the tools she needs to decode (I do know that term…
unfortunately)…
If you child knows all his letters and sounds and he is just entering kindergarten
in the Fall, it sounds like he is doing great!
Good luck to you!
Pam