Coping Skills

When children have learning disabilities school is often a dreadful place for them when they come home sometimes they need support from their parents. Parents often have a hard time understanding what the child needs and how the child feels. Parents can provide copying skills that can help the child tremendously.

According to CNN, these three coping skills are most effective are to be supportive, talk to your child and take steps at home to make it easier for your child to study.

Children need to have his or her strengths and talents appraised to help them build self esteem back. Children with dyslexia often have low self esteem. We all know how much talking can make us feel better when we are feeling down. A calm, clean, quiet, organized place for the child to study can help them remained focused.

These skills will not help every child but they are a starting point for parents. To learn more feel free to check out CNN.

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Common Classroom Accommodations

Children that have difficulty reading and writing can often verbalize better. Therefore easy classroom accommodations can help them in the classroom. These accommodations could be as easy as having a test read to them or having un-timed test. Un-timed test can help students because they are not required to rush to finish and they can take there time. Another good accommodation is to grade on content not spelling or handwriting.

However the most important way I believe to help a dyslexic student is to ask the student how he or she best learns. Use what the student tells you in order to incorporate it into your lessons or tests. Therefore this student is not under as much pressure and feels like he or she can accomplish what is being asked.

Some dyslexic students have very low self-esteem and can not complete tasks. Therefore I believe that if you are showing the student that you care and willing to help then it shows the student you are working to help them. To me this is the best way to help the student see he or she is not in this alone and as a teacher you are willing to help them succeed.

You can read more of the common classroom accommodations from Bright Solutions for Dyslexia. Feel free to tell me what you think.

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Bright Solutions for Dyslexia.

Famous?

There is no cure for dyslexia but people who have dyslexia go on to live extremely normal lives. They use different strategies and techniques to help them with their weaknesses. They can learn to read accurately but they continue to read slowly.

What do the following people have in common: Magic Johnson, Tom Cruise, Leonardo da Vinci, Cher, Thomas Edison and Whoopi Goldberg? Take a minute. Figure it out yet? They are all famous Dyslexics who went on to live an extraordinary life.

An article from DARC has many quotes from famous dyslexics that talk about the positive and negative that they had experienced with dyslexia. It also talks about life after school.

“I had to train myself to focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to create mental images in order to comprehend what I read.”-- Tom Cruise, actorThat is just one example of what one of the many said. More can be read at DARC.

Sources: DARC