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My child has always struggled with spelling, even certain phonetical words don't make much sense to him; he can read them but can't ever spell them. What is your suggestion for mastering spelling to a child with visual processing and dyslexia? Constantly flipping order or words/letters, even numbers (writes 14 like 41), etc?

 

Visually, reading big words are difficult - sounding each sylable one at a time doesn't seem to make sense to him. I have to block the rest and show one sylable at a time and really push it or else he'd slur over the whole word everytime he sees one of the unfamiliar words in reading. Would appreciate any suggestions to make things and teaching easier. Thank you.

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What have you used for remediation of his reading?  And have you tried any exercises for the visual processing or official Vision Therapy of any kind?

 

DD has visual processing issues as well as Dyslexia and struggled terribly with the things you are seeing.   Barton helped tremendously but we have to do lessons in short segments or her eyes get too fatigued and her brain overloads.  Especially once we had passed Level 4 and Level 5 it became 40 million times easier to break up long words for reading and to spell long words in her writing.

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Vision therapy with a developmental optometrist *who specifically tests for and treats visual processing issues  - you must inquire about this specifically because some only treat visual motor issues and do not test for and treat visual processing issues, and they will be a waste of your time and money *

 

The other thing that helped our DS is typing.  I used Click'n Spell, and also Talking Fingers Read Write and Type, and Wordy Qwerty.  Typing helps to learn spelling kinesthetically.  

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It is best to remediate once you have figured out the underlying problem or problems. It could be phonemic awareness, it could be a specific vision problem that a covd doctor can fix, ihere is how to screen for both:

 

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/dyslexia.html

 

Have you tried pre divided words like in Webster's Speller to build up to dividing them on his own?

 

http://www.thephonicspage.org/On%20Reading/WellTaughtPhonicsStudent.html

 

Phonemic awareness problems can also stem from hearing problems.

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Has your child done vision therapy? That would be the first step for a student with vision processing issues. That combined with an Orton-Gillingham spelling program and targeted reading practice where I modeled daily how to break down and read multi-syllable words is what helped my son. We used All About Spelling. If All About Reading had been out then, I would have done that as well (syllable division work starts in AAR 2 and continues throughout--you can use the placement tests to see where to start a student who can read words well and just needs to work on multi-syllable words). This article on Waiting for a Breakthrough might be helpful.

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