Helping Your Student At Home
So you just got a dyslexia diagnosis. Now you’re probably wondering, “What can I do to help a child with dyslexia?” Understand the challenges your student will face is difficult. Their struggles may include difficulty with memory, reading, writing, oral communication, and processing information. But what are some real practical things you can do to help your child with dyslexia at home? You want to help your child so badly. You want to jump in and start making progress now. So here are some concrete steps for things you can do today to help your dyslexic child.
Try These Supports at Home:
- Post routines in visual charts
- Use visual timers
- Give clear-concise directions in small chunks
- Nurture thinking skills
- Foster their interests and strengths
- Encourage Independence
- Build a Positive Self-Image while teaching emotional regulation
- Read aloud to your child
- Talk to your child about their diagnosis
Checkout these resources to make a Dyslexia friendly home:
Partner Resource Network
SpedTEX
SpedTEX provides information and resources that can help you understand your child’s disability, your rights, and responsibilities under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), and facilitate collaboration that supports the development and delivery of services to children with disabilities in our state. Learn more HERE
StandUpLD
Molly's Great Discovery
Molly has a big imagination and loves to solve problems and learn new things. But Molly also struggles to spell, write, and read as quickly as her classmates. With the support of her friend Lexi (an imaginary character who represents being dyslexic), Molly summons the courage to ask her teacher Mr. Mitchell for help. Molly learns how to self-advocate and discovers that it's okay to be different.
Dyslexia & Spelling: Making Sense of it all
Written by an authority in the dyslexia field, this is the first accessible guide to the close interplay of spelling and dyslexia. Kelli Sandman-Hurley talks the teacher or parent through why kids with dyslexia find spelling so hard, and what we can learn from the spelling mistakes in their writing samples.
Dyslexia: Wrestling with an Octopus
This easy-to-read book empowers parents by giving them tips to help students from 1st grade to teens including tools to help your child with reading, spelling, handwriting, and tips to master the multiplication tables, an explanation of the links between dyslexia and common health challenges, and easy-to-read chapters explaining how to build on your child's strengths.
Texas Talking Books Program
The Talking Book Program (TBP) provides free library services to qualifying Texans with visual, physical, or reading disabilities. TBP is part of the National Library Service to the Blind and Print Disabled, a program administered by the Library of Congress. The TBP collection consists of more than 100,000 titles, including hundreds of titles in Spanish, and some in French, German, Russian, and other languages.
Checkout their website here.
Learning Ally
Learning Ally believes all students should have equal access to content. Through person read audio-books, students can grow their vocabulary, back ground knowledge, and comprehension skills.
Check out their website.
Bookshare
Bookshare is an ebook library that makes reading easier. People with reading barriers can customize their experience and read in ways that work for them. Bookshare is free to those who qualify. Checkout their website to sign up.
TURBO START: A Dyslexia Curriculum
For Newly Identified Students
October 9th, 2024
Presented by Scottish Rite for Children
Hosted by Region 10 ESC
Participants MUST PURCHASE the Turbo Start: A Dyslexia Curriculum for Newly Identified Students from Scottish Rite.
Instructions to order material are located HERE.
NEWLY RELEASE:
This self-paced training is to provide participants with an understanding of the Standards-Based IEP process for gathering student data, including the full and individual evaluation (FIE), to write the student’s present levels of academic achievement and functional performance (PLAAFP) statement, to draft measurable annual goals with short-term objectives/benchmarks, if appropriate, and to create a data collection system for monitoring progress of the annual goals.
AUDIENCE:
- special education teachers
- related service providers
- professional staff responsible for drafting a student’s IEP, including the PLAAFP and measurable annual goals.
Register HERE
The Texas Dyslexia Academies provide educators with foundational information about Dyslexia and Related Disorders, including the topics of Emergent Bilingual Considerations, Evaluations under IDEA, and Screening for Dyslexia. Checkout the academies to fulfill professional development needs.
CURRENT published Texas Dyslexia Academies
Virtual Course with Region 10 ESC: HERE
Self-Paced course with TEALearn: HERE
International Dyslexia Associations-Dallas Branch
The International Multisensory Structured Language Education Council
The MISSION OF IMSLEC is to accredit quality training courses for the professional preparation of multisensory structured language education specialists.
Academic Language Therapist Association
Amie Davenport, Region 10 Dyslexia Consultant
Email: amie.davenport@region10.org
Website: Region10.org
Location: 904 Abrams Rd, Richardson, TX, USA
Phone: 972-348-1538