Dyslexia, Phonics, Accurate Alphabet, Blends, Spelling Lists, Homonyms, Mnemonics Books for Teachers, Students, Pupils, Parents & Children, directly from the Author Angela Tregear Liddicoat.

Dyslexia is a learning disability which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awereness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, and/or rapid naming that impairs a person's ability to read. Dyslexia is separate and distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instructions. It is estimated that dyslexia affects between 5 and 17 percent of the population. (Wikipedia)

 

This Dyslexia System Consists of eight books and is UNIQUE in the following ways:

1. The Dyslexia book system combines the teaching of both reading and spelling.

2. The Dyslexia book system provides for pupils / children with different learning styles. It suits those pupils / children who use their symbolic, auditory , or pictorial memory. It benefits equally those pupils /  children with aptitude for language or those who find it difficult, and is used widely by special needs teachers / parents as a basis for their multi sensory teaching. It also provides for pupils / children with poor concentration and appeals to children with artistic ability.

3. The Dyslexia book system was developed and adapted by the author Angela Liddicoat during her many years of classroom experience and includes input from students, teachers & parents, which has contributed to its success.

4. The Dyslexia book system is interactive, as it provides learning activities which include black and white illustrations for pupils / children for colouring, amusing rhyming narratives and games to play.

5. The Dyslexia book system is versatile.  Pupils / children can "slot in" at their appropriate level, and teachers / parents, using the cross reference section of the Phonic Hand Book can "dip in" to find the appropriate book to illustrate the required teaching point.  It can be used for one to one, group, whole class teaching or even at home.

6. As the Dyslexia books can be photo-copied, it satisfies the needs of a whole school, its special needs section, or it can be used by the entire family at home and is therefore cost effective.

7. The Dyslexia books system has been tried and tested over many years both in the classroom and with small groups, in tutorials and in the home. Pupils / children over a wide age range and of varying abilities have been successfully and enjoyably taught.

8. The Dyslexxia books when completed provide a satisfying project of work and a personal reference for pleasant revision.

 

Dyslexia symptoms vary according to the severity of the disorder as well as the age of the individual.

Preschool-aged children

It is difficult to obtain a certain diagnosis of dyslexia before a child begins school, but many dyslexia children have a history of learning difficulties that began well before kindergarten. Children who exhibit these symptoms early in life have a higher likelihood of being diagnosed as dyslexic than other children. A dyslexia test will look for:

  • Delays in speech
  • Slow learning of new words
  • Difficulty in rhyming words, as in nursery rhymes
  • Low letter knowledge
  • Letter reversal (for example, "Я" instead of "R")

Early primary school children

  • Difficulty learning the alphabet or in order
  • Difficulty with associating sounds with the letters that represent them (sound-symbol correspondence)
  • Difficulty identifying or generating rhyming words, or counting syllables in words (phonological awareness)
  • Difficulty segmenting words into individual sounds, or blending sounds to make words (phonemic awareness)
  • Difficulty with word retrieval or naming problems
  • Difficulty learning to decode written words
  • Difficulty distinguishing between similar sounds in words; mixing up sounds in polysyllabic words (auditory discrimination) (for example, "aminal" for animal, "bisghetti" for spaghetti)

Older primary school children

  • Slow or inaccurate reading, although these individuals can read to an extent.
  • Very poor spelling
  • Difficulty reading out loud, reads word in the wrong order, skips words and sometimes says a word similar to another word (auditory processing disorder)
  • Difficulty associating individual words with their correct meanings
  • Difficulty with time keeping and concept of time, when doing a certain task
  • Difficulty with organization skills (working memory)
  • Children with dyslexia may fail to see (and occasionally to hear) similarities and differences in letters and words, may not recognize the spacing that organizes letters into separate words, and may be unable to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word (auditory processing disorder).

One common misconception made about dyslexia is that dyslexics write words backwards or move letters around when reading. In fact, this only occurs in a very small population of dyslexics. Dyslexic people are better identified by writing that does not seem to match their level of intelligence from prior observations. Additionally, dyslexic people often substitute similar-looking, but unrelated, words in place of the ones intended (what/want, say/saw, help/held, run/fun, fell/fall, to/too, etc.). More information can be obatined from the Dyslexia Association.