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Medical Video: Spelling Technique for Dyslexic
When you know your child has difficulty attending school or struggles to read simple text in a book, parents and teachers often feel confused to understand the cause. Is he just lazy? Not focus? Or is it not as smart as you expect?
Raising a child with dyslexia can involve mixed emotions. You will probably look far ahead, enveloped by various concerns whether this will affect the future of your little one later. However, dyslexia is no guarantee of failure.
Many parents do not know that dyslexia is actually a very common condition, and many influential world figures have this condition - for example Picasso, Steven Spielberg, and Bill Gates.
What is dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a type of learning disorder. Experts do not know exactly what causes dyslexia, in addition to differences in the workings of the brain of people with dyslexia in processing information. However, several recent studies have shown a link between these learning disruption conditions and the role of genetics. If you or your partner has dyslexia, your child will be more likely to have it too.
Children with dyslexia have problems processing information that they see when they read something. Often, children with dyslexia will have problems connecting sounds produced by one letter (for example, confused or confused to distinguish "b" and "d"), confusion in order of letters to form a word, or interpret the sound of letters that form a said. Dyslexia is generally associated with fluency reading problems, but this information processing problem can also affect a child's ability to write, spell, and even speak.
To be sure, dyslexia does not mean the intelligence of children is lacking, not a sign of laziness, especially for reasons of poor vision. The sufferer can still understand complex ideas and ideas. Sometimes, they only need extra time to understand the information they are digesting. They may also need different ways to process information, such as listening to audio books rather than reading paragraph by paragraph.
However, it is very important to remember that dyslexia is a lifelong condition. Children's struggles in reading and other issues can cause frustration and feelings of inferiority. However, that does not mean this will prevent your child from being able to be happy and successful in his life.
Multisensory training to help children with dyslexia learn to read and write
Multisensory training is a way of teaching that involves more than one sense at a time. For children who have difficulty reading, it may be difficult to pay attention to all the details in the new vocabulary, especially if the word has unusual spelling. With the use of vision, hearing, movement and touch, this technique can greatly help the learning process. The following are some of the many examples of multisensory exercises that can be used to help children who have difficulty reading:
1. Teach in detail
First, teach the child to show one word, for example "bear" and read it to him in a clear and loud voice. Then, ask him to try spelling out the letters that make up the word. Ask whatever vowels he sees, what letters he sees in the beginning, middle, and end of the word. This will help him to analyze the vocabulary and process it in detail.
2. Using sand or cream
This activity involves the senses of sight, touch, movement, and sound for children to be able to connect letters and sounds. Start by spreading a handful of sand or a large dollop of shaving cream (or whipping cream) on paper or a table.
Then, ask your child to make the word "bear" use their finger on the sand or cream. As they write, ask him to spell the sound of each letter he makes, and try to blend each of the voices together to say "bear" loudly and clearly.
3. Writing in the air
Writing in the air will strengthen the connection between sounds and each letter through "muscle memory". This can also help strengthen children to be able to distinguish confusing letters, such as "b" and "d". Teach the child to use two fingers - index and middle finger - to make the letters of imagination in the air, while keeping the elbows and wrists straight. Every time he makes one letter in the air, ask him to spell the sound of the letter out loud.
This activity will also help them to imagine the type of letters they write. You might be able to improvise by asking your child to associate writing letters with certain colors, such as red for "b", yellow for "d".
4. Using letter blocks
Arranging a word with colorful toy blocks in the form of letters can help children to connect sounds with letters. To improve your little practice, you can categorize different colors for groups of vowels and consonants, red and blue, for example.
As they compose words, ask them to spell the sounds of the letters, then ask him to say his full words clearly after he finishes composing the words.
5. Read, Arrange, write
With a piece of cardboard, make three columns: Read, Arrange, and Write. Then, provide markers and colorful letter beams.
Write down the vocabulary you want to practice in the Read column and ask your child to see the letters that make up the word. Then, your child will arrange the words in the Arrange column using letter blocks. Finally, ask him to try writing the word in the Write column while reading it aloud.
6. Tap the finger
Using the tap of a finger when spelling letters teaches children to feel, feel, and hear how certain letters can form one word, along with the overall sound.
For example, the word "Budi". Ask the child to tap the index finger on his thumb when they say the letter "b", tap the middle finger with the thumb when saying the letter "d", the ring finger with the thumb when saying "u", and the pinkie for the letter "i".
7. Image help
For some children, remembering words will be easier if they connect with an image. Here's one way to work around this:
Write the words you want to be trained on both sides of the paper, for example the word "two". On the one hand, you and your child can draw directly on the word (for example, add two eyes above the letter U to draw a smiley face; or draw a goose that represents the number "2"). Using this illustrated word, train your child to associate the word with the image and letters forming it - two pairs of eyes to represent the word "two". When your child starts smoothly to read quickly and more easily, switch the exercises to the other side where there is only the text "two".
8. Create a vocabulary wall
For words that are often seen or used in a whole sentence, for example "I", "in", "to", "from", and print these words in large and colorful sizes, then paste them in alphabetical order on the walls of your child's room.
Automatically recognizing a number of vocabulary words can help children respond more quickly, become more fluent readers. Repeated exposure is the key to success for both of you.
Vocabulary walls give children extra exposure to these important vocabulary words. This special wall also provides quick access to certain vocabulary that they might need during reading or writing activities.
9. Read and listen
In this activity, you and your child will be involved together in reading. You can read the story to him while he also pays attention to the sentences in the book. They can interact with text, highlight important vocabulary or round up long or short vocabulary.
During reading together, your child can also rewrite or draw visualizations that he can connect with the words to match sentences.
There are many other tools and strategies that are just as good at helping your child more smoothly to write-read. Maybe it will need some right-left experiments for you to find out which is best for your child. The most important thing is the effort and consistent support from the people around them to increase children's confidence to continue learning.
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