Subject:  Solutions for Dyslexic Kids |
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Dr Andy Gudgeon
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Date Posted: 05:28:06 08/30/12 Thu
I hope nobody will be offended if I throw a big spanner in the works, but I approach dyslexia very differently from most other people. I am a doctor and a teacher, and I have been asked many times to help dyslexic children. I have designed courses for them, usually with my 1-to-1 teaching, but it can easily be done by any parent, sibling, teacher or friend. If I help through email, there is no charge. I live in the Philippines now, sorry! I am from UK.
In every case, my students (ages 7 to 16) have been hoping for me to get them "OUT OF BOTTOM SETS", where you usually find naughty children, lazy children and demoralised teachers. In every case, my students were promoted out of every bottom set BEFORE WE HAD TIME TO REQUEST IT! After only 8-12 hours, they were already "cured". I know it sounds like some American web-site, claiming to make you 20 years younger by some amazing new herbal remedy, but I am here today to show you parents how to tackle the problem. I will never accept any money from anybody.
Maybe I do not believe in dyslexia? That does not matter, does it? I believe many kids are labelled as dyslexic when they are (or were) lazy kids, or had lazy parents or lazy teachers, and all the kids really had were a weak short-term memory, combined with somebody (maybe themselves?) who found it easier to put a label on it than to attack it.
A weak short-term memory will improve if it is used intensively, like oiling a bicycle chain and then using the bike for 5 minutes.
I have many work-sheets, very easy to email, but my best ones are these:
If p =3 and q = 4 what is p+q? p+2q? 3p+q? 4p-2q? 5q-3p? Maybe 50 of those. They learn to check if it is p then q, or q then p, or if it is + or -, or even did I put 3p + 5p ? They become more rigorous, attentive, competent, confident, organised. Their minds start working properly. They also start to progress in maths! If they do a foreign language, that is another area to include. Give them 9 numbers, 9 adjectives, 9 nouns and ask them to translate 3 big tables, 5 yellow houses, 7 blue girls. Their minds start to operate properly.
Do not TELL your child they are dyslexic! That gives them an excuse for being lazy and failing. Just make them do these exercises. Remember, every one of my students was OK after a few weeks, and one is now a surgeon.
I hope somebody is brave enough to publish these ideas.
I am Dr Andy Gudgeon, with email andygudgy@gmail.com
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