Dyslexia, my main task is to help others.
I received head injury and woke up with out the ability to read. And I had no idea this had happened until I was given a pack of pictures and asked to say what I saw. I remember one of them was a picture of a radiator and for the life of me, I couldn’t say what it was.
It has taken a lot of patience and a hell of a lot of reading and trying to recognise words and remember, what they meant was one of the largest challenges in my life. Looking at words and splitting them in to syllables. Then trying to read each syllable. Seeing the word and saying the word, and I didn’t do this on my own.
Seeing pictures, hearing words, and seeing the word (auditory sensation), using 3 of your senses. This way I was using 3 different techniques to help me see and remember the word. I didn’t has extreme dyslexia, just very mild, as I wasn’t born with it. But there are other’s that see fuzzy words, can’t see colours, can’t see lines, don’t recognise fonts or just see shapes. Helping others by using larger fonts often printing the same document in different colours, on different coloured paper, and some times using illustrations/story to sum up the sentence.
There currently are common was to check in the long term to spot dyslexia in the young:
- confusion over the direction letters face (b/d, p/9, p/q);
- difficulties with left and right;
- difficulties with keeping organised;
- difficulties with spelling;
- difficulties with directions (e.g. east and west);
- missing out words when reading.
In any school in any week of the year a dyslexic child experiences a huge amount of failure. Why can’t he read and spell? He must be dumb, thick, stupid. It’s the conclusion that anyone would reach in similar circumstances, and it badly needs changing before any corrective teaching is going to be effective. Teaching does not necessarily mean schools.
(Sections from the dyslexia teaching website)
http://www.dyslexia-teacher.co.uk/
Teaching adults with dyslexia, there are plenty of evening courses, clubs and drop in centres. In cornwall here is the link for their drop in centre (also note you can change the colours and fonts to suit you:
http://www.cornwalldyslexia.org.uk/
Here are some other links that can help:
The British Dyslexia Association
http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/
Cornwall Dyslexia Association
http://www.cornwalldyslexia.org.uk/
My head injury 