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Help With DyslexiaPerhaps you are looking for some help for your dyslexic child; or maybe you feel your child is slipping through the school net and not learning to read and spell as quickly as other children. This page suggests some resources that I have found useful as a tutor and they are all geared towards parents helping their children at home. 1. Focus on what your child enjoys First of all find things that your child enjoys and encourage these. There is a possibility that the school may not adequately recognise your child’s dyslexia. As a result he or she might be put in low groups for reading, spelling and writing. This may mean that your child’s self-esteem suffers and needs to be built up. Focus on the positive and encourage those activities your child enjoys. 2. Help with organisation Your child may find it tricky to keep track of what he has to remember to bring for school. If this is a problem create a large weekly timetable for the wall detailing the things that need to be remembered. For example ask your child to draw some money to represent dinner money for Monday, a swimming kit for Tuesday, PE kit for Wednesday and so on. This will help develop independence and hopefully cut down on the nagging from you. 3. Reading Programme Do not wait to find a tutor. You can make a big difference at home with 15 or 20 minutes a day. If reading is a real struggle, I would recommend Toe by Toe: A Highly Structured Multi-sensory Reading Manual for Teachers and Parents. 
You'll need some quiet time every day to complete the exercises - reading ages improve as well as confidence and self esteem.
You would need to commit to working quietly with your child every day (this is what they recommend but they say missing the odd day is okay). Basically you sit with your child while he completes each page, starting with the letter sounds, moving onto 2 letter blends, then 3 letter blends building up the reading skills over a year. It has seen very good results. You tick when right and dot when wrong, moving on after 3 consecutive ticks. Read the Toe by Toe Reviews 
and see if it's for you.
Spelling and Reading CD Rom A useful collection of CD Roms are the Nessy series created by British specialist teachers from the Bristol Dyslexia Centre. The CD Roms follow a multisensory, structured reading and spelling programme and they're aimed at children aged 7 to 14 years. Nessy Learning Programme Deluxe 
The Nessy Learning Programme Deluxe is a complete learning package that teaches phonics in a multisensory way (the best way to teach dyslexic children).
It is fairly expensive (£114.50) but worth it if you can't get hold of a specialist teacher. Your child will start with some games to establish a suitable starting point. Then the programme unfolds in a structured and cumulative way with fun games so your child will hardly know (s)he is learning! This programme states that "Nessy enables all abilities to read, write and spell with confidence." It also allows you to print off worksheets which accompany the CD enabling the children to practise their skills away from the computer. Nessy GamesPlayer 
The Nessy GamesPlayer
provides playing opportunites for children to practise structured word lists including high frequency words that children should know at primary school.
They can also record their own spelling lists for home practice. It's great fun and children seem to love it. Note that the Nessy GamesPlayer does not teach children as such but gives them the opportunity to practise words in a very structured way.
Nessy Fingers 
Dyslexic students are increasingly working on laptops although many are slow at actually finding the letters on the keyboard. Nessy Fingers is a touch type programme which children (and their paents) love.
Read the Nessy Fingers Reviews on Amazon.
For other books and written materials I use the Read, Write, Inc.
series as well as Alpha To Omega. I would suggest that the Read, Write Inc series is more geared up towards parents. This series is great for dyslexic children as well as for younger children learning to read and write.
First Set Of Flashcards Start with Read Write Inc. Home: Phonics Flashcards (Read Write Inc Phonics)  This is a pack of 72 flashcards with phonic sounds, words and pictures. It's a fun way for your child to learn the letters and sounds. Parent Handbook If you are working independently at home, the Read Write Inc. Phonics: Parent Handbook  makes it easy to follow the Read Write Inc. programme and is linked to the flashcards just mentioned.
Wall Chart For Bedroom The Read Write Inc.: Sound-Picture Frieze  is a wall chart for your child’s bedroom which shows the sounds that will be covered by the cards.
Second Set Of Flashcards When your child can read and blend these sounds into words, they will soon be ready for the Read Write Inc. Phonics: Home More Phonics Flashcards. 
These flashcards introduce the sounds and corresponding letters, and include activities for blending the sounds together for reading. Pronunciation Of Letters DVD If you are unsure about the sounds of the letters, there is a Phonemes Pronunciation Guide DVD.  This DVD provides an audio- visual guide for teachers and parents and demonstrates how to form and pronounce the 44 phonemes that children have to learn to recognise in order to decode words when learning to read English.
An introduction by the author of the series, Ruth Miskin, explains how children can be taught the sounds logically. Children and adults are shown in close-up, pronouncing each phoneme while the corresponding grapheme (letter) is shown alongside on the Read Write Inc. Home: Phonics Flashcards (Read Write Inc Phonics) as seen above. Sounds are grouped in easy-to learn sets: bouncy consonants; stretchy consonants; bouncy vowels; stretchy vowels. The video concludes with a section to allow children to copy and practise the sounds.
First set of reading books Since it is hard to create meaningful stories when a child is at the beginning of the ‘learning to read path’, there is a set of ten fully-illustrated Red Ditty Books Mixed Pack of 10  , with a strong phonic structure. The Ditties prepare children to quickly move on to the Storybooks, building their vocabulary and ensuring they will be able to decode all the words in the stories with confidence.
Story Books The Home Phonics Story Books have titles such as: Other useful resources There are many more sections of the Read, Write, Inc series including
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Practical, down to earth, survival guide written by a British specialist teacher and mother of a dyslexic child. Read the reviews of Dyslexia: Parents Survival Guide.
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