Dyslexia Empowering Parents
Book Content
Section 1
Introduction to Empowering Parents
- The principles of the dyslexia@bayTM system
- Characteristics of individuals with dyslexia
- A unique structured approach for each person who has dyslexia
Section 2
Phonics: Why some students cannot spell words by sounding them out.
- Solving the mystery of Phonics
- Phonetic Deafness
- Using phonics is easy isn’t it?
Section 3
The Perceptual Screen
- What is a Perceptual Screen?
- Perceptual Screen and Spelling
- Perceptual Screen and Reading Comprehension
- Perceptual Screen and Sequencing
- Perceptual Screen and Story Writing
Section 4
Spellings – Using a Visual Strategy
- How do most people who do not have a learning difficulty learn to spell new words?
- Short-term versus Long-Term Memory
- Perceptual Screen and Spelling
Section 5
Unconscious Learning
- When does Unconscious Learning start?
- How exactly does Unconscious Learning work?
- Unconscious Teaching methods.
Section 6
Writing Stories and Reading Comprehension
- What are the main stages in Writing Stories?
- What are the main stages in Reading Comprehension?
- Building Visual Memory.
- The link between Anticipatory Eye-Movement and Visual Dynamic Memory.
Section 7
Eye Tracking Difficulties
- What exactly is eye tracking and what are the symptoms?
- Why do students with dyslexia complain of getting “tired” of reading after a short period of time?
- Why do students with dyslexia often show no interest in reading? produce written work that is inconsistent with their oral ability?
- Lack of fluency in reading and eye tracking.
Section 8
SequencingDifficulties
- What exactly is sequencing?
- Maths difficulties arise for those students who have sequencing problems.
- Logical and sequential Thinking Processes.
- How our brain recognised time.
Section 9
Other difficulties experienced by students with dyslexia
- Confusion between left and right.
- Difficulty tying shoe laces.
- Difficulty copying from the board at school.
- Dominant direction of Lateral Processing.
- Dominant direction of Circular Processing.