I need some advice for homeschooling a dyslexic child?

My child was diagnosed with ADD. The public schools actually told me they could not teach her and kept pushing higher doses of medication. Since we've been homeschooling things have vastly improved but we've reached a wall. Some simple things seem to never reach grade level or cannot be grasped despite repetition and various instruction attempts. Looking for an answer I discovered that her ADD symptoms are also Dyslexia symptoms. In fact my whole family has these symptoms and they more closely follow the model for dyslexia than they do ADD. We may have been treating the wrong disorder all along. This so explains why certain teaching methods did not work for teachers or for me. My question is: What now? We are looking into more definite diagnosis. Even the public schools in Kentucky refuse to test for dyslexia and do not view it as a learning disorder. We're already using Time4learning, Spelling City, Brain pop etc to help her bypass some of her issues, but how do we address them?





Thanks in advance for any and all constructive help. Those of you who remember me know we don't have alot of support in our educational endeavors.



www.linguisystems.com has a lot of great material for dyslexia. We use their products often. They have a book called "The Source for Dyslexia" - one of the best books I've EVER read. It really helped me out a lot.





Math U See was the best math program we found for my daughter. It seemed to work well with her dyslexia.




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Sounds like some backward school system, not being able to read correctly seems like a learning disorder to me.


Can't help alot with learning strategies unfortuantly.




here's a tip I learned when I used to tutor a dyslexic person in school... Use red film (like a clear red report cover) over whatever they're reading.


The person I tutored said that this helped them see the words regular...


something about tricking the part of your brain that responds to written text... If not red try other colors because it may be different for others.





Just lay it over say a text book and just move it over....


now for the adhd part try letting your child study like the girl in legally blonde movie.... movement probably helps it stick...





also if they have physical dyslexica say volleyball/baseball for example have them stand on your feet and move their arms exactly how they need to go for muscle memory





Hope this helps