Stride ahead for dyslexia5/23/2023 I have looked at headsprout/mimio - the sample lesson is very very easy and since the meaning is very clearly set out in the text it doesnt address his actual problem (eg The cat sat on the mat. I think I need something that works on specific comprehension skills, actually it looks like it might be the skill strands that they use in America?Ī bunch of comprehension books or exercises wont help as they dont actually teach the skills (and most school lids wouldnt need the skills teaching anyway) ![]() But as he gets older (lower secondary) the complexity of the material and the need to deduce specific meanings means the coping strategies are no longer working. He has survived so far by gaining the overall gist of the meaning, which in a basic comprehension test which includes common sense answers would serve him well. Its not just the slight word muddling problem, he doesn't seem to be able to deduce the overall meaning of a paragraph or few sentences, cant work out the point of it or the key facts, cant link it to things he already knows, so any new work baffles and upsets him. The big problem though is reading comprehension. His reading aloud of a text, however, is very poor as he stumbles, misses words, switches the order and substitutes opposite words, although he has improved a lot with vision therapy and glasses. ![]() ![]() His single word reading skills are very good, maybe above age level even (this is thought to be mainly a huge sight reading vocabulary) ![]() My son has a great deal of difficulty with comprehension.
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