All About Dyslexia

[peanut_butter]

ngl2010:

My niece is suspected to have dylexia. She lives in Hong Kong and attends local school there. There isn't much article on how to teach Chinese characters to dyslexics. Can anybody share tips on how to help her?

I have dyslexia. When I was young, our teachers made us wrote in the air, while reciting the strokes. ie. Shu, heng, zhe, heng = ko. Then we took turns and went up to the blackboard to write the character. That was re-enforced by a weekly spelling and dictation test. So we had a multiple dimension education. As a matter of fact, I only remember the Chinese words I learnt up to primary three. After that year, they stop making us sit on the floor and do the stroking exercise.

My mother found me a tutor for my Han Yi Ping Yin because I have no clue how phonic works. It turns out to be easy as long as you speak Mandarine properly. I master it within one-two lessons. My memory is a disaster but I seldom fail my Chinese papers.

I think that in HK, the pace of learning Chinese character is alot faster than the local schools. So they have to prepare to spend alot of time doing that.

I suspect DAS does not teach you how to teach Chinese. One of my cousin attended the course.

[ngl2010]

peanut_butter:

ngl2010:

My niece is suspected to have dylexia. She lives in Hong Kong and attends local school there. There isn't much article on how to teach Chinese characters to dyslexics. Can anybody share tips on how to help her?

I have dyslexia. When I was young, our teachers made us wrote in the air, while reciting the strokes. ie. Shu, heng, zhe, heng = ko. Then we took turns and went up to the blackboard to write the character. That was re-enforced by a weekly spelling and dictation test. So we had a multiple dimension education. As a matter of fact, I only remember the Chinese words I learnt up to primary three. After that year, they stop making us sit on the floor and do the stroking exercise.

My mother found me a tutor for my Han Yi Ping Yin because I have no clue how phonic works. It turns out to be easy as long as you speak Mandarine properly. I master it within one-two lessons. My memory is a disaster but I seldom fail my Chinese papers.

I think that in HK, the pace of learning Chinese character is alot faster than the local schools. So they have to prepare to spend alot of time doing that.

I suspect DAS does not teach you how to teach Chinese. One of my cousin attended the course.

Thank you. I will share your experience with my sister. I think learning Chinese is more difficult for dyslexics

[peanut_butter]

ngl2010:

Thank you. I will share your experience with my sister. I think learning Chinese is more difficult for dyslexics

My niece is also struggling with her Chinese. she is confused with which stoke comes first.

[ngl2010]

peanut_butter:

ngl2010:

Thank you. I will share your experience with my sister. I think learning Chinese is more difficult for dyslexics

My niece is also struggling with her Chinese. she is confused with which stoke comes first.

Yesterday my son bought electronic dictionary Besta CD739S. It has a program that highlight the next stroke to write. After the child trace it, then the next stroke will be highlighted (change colour). I hope you understand what I meant. It is not cheap though. The price was $ 598 but was $ 498 yesterday at Popular. The sales person said the dictionary can be used up to Poly level but it cannot be used for PSLE.

Hmmm.... Maybe iPad or Android phones have cheaper alternative?

[greenbean]

hi hi


anyone know how the teaching method and program will be for a typical Dyslexia school?
will they repeatedly teach the same thing week over week?
or they will have structured program and teach different thing very session?
i am not sure how would my kid benefit from going to such program and it is not cheap…

[3boysdad]

if you are able to spend an hour a day teaching your child how to read and write that would be far more beneficial than sending the child for a dyslexia program. DAS actually conducts courses to equip parents to teach their child.

[ammonite]

3boysdad:

if you are able to spend an hour a day teaching your child how to read and write that would be far more beneficial than sending the child for a dyslexia program. DAS actually conducts courses to equip parents to teach their child.

This is very very true.

Greenbean,
We didn't go through it but we know they use kinaesthetic and multisensory methods as well as mnemonics to help the children. If you can teach your child yourself, you can attend the parent's course as suggested by above poster, or you can read up and learn from books. The typical Peter and Jane series or phonics series will not work well for these children without at least some modification.

The important thing is you must be very consistent, and observant to see what works and what does not. You have to be self disciplined in bringing the lessons to your child. Because my child has vision and directional problem as well, I had to enlarge the materials used and work on his directionality as part of teaching him to read.

You can also call DAS to find out more about their programmes. All the best!

[Luanee]

Are there any dyslexic parents support group in sg ??

[Rex]

My DS (P1) is attending DAS ELA programme now, but his English is very poor, especially for comprehension. Although he is very strong in math, but I worry that if he doesn’t have good fundation in English, his math will drop in upper level, as he will not be able to understand the meaning of the question.


I will appreciate if any one can recommend a good patient tutor for P1 English (grammar, comprehension, composition). I prefer small group (2-3 kids).

[Saints]

I have just received this in my email and I am so happy that Lindamood-Bell is finally coming to Singapore to give an introduction.


I just want to share this with any parents, like me, who may be keen to find out more about Lindamood-bell and their ways to help our children.

http://www.lindamoodbell.com/LC-EM-1013-SING.html