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A Workbook for Dyslexics

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This book is AMAZING!!! It is practical, efficient, easy-to-use, and best of all EFFECTIVE!!! This book is a rare find because it is all about actual teaching lessons! This book is for parents/teachers who want to dive right in and start teaching to help kids learn to read immediately!! My daughter's reading improved more by using this book than with any other tool we've used! The book is economical and simple, yet the results are worth their weight in gold! Buy this book and you won't be disappointed!!

I totally disagree with the negative review....having worked with the LiPs system myself, this workbook is a god send for parents. This so called needed "intense intervention" is not always financially suitable ($6000/mo-Atlanta) and I have seen many kids walk away with little more than when they started. This book is a great tool for parents who want to super charge their childs reading level. "intense intervention" as I know of first hand, is "tutoring with repeat, reapeat, repeat...." which most parents do not have time for and the school system offers no hope for. Therefore, "intense intervention" becomes the ideal choice by many. However, if you take/have the time to invest in YOUR own child, you can easily help your child suceed at reading.

As far as the workbook being designed to "teach people to read", yes, thats the goal!! Most parents that are picking up this book are at their wits end. Most kids that are introduced to the book, will most likely be over the age of 7. The cover also states "8 years and up"....NO where in the book or cover does the author promise to have a complete program for dyslexics or promise to teach "phonemic awaremess" of which I believe you are refering to phenome awareness....Most parents are NOT going to be seeking this book out at 4-5 or even 6 years old. Also, if you call any "intense intervention" center (e.g. Dyslexia Inst. of America) they will advise you that the "ideal" time to begin evaluations for dyslexia is around 8 or 9....though they will take younger children. Many children without dyslexia have problems with reversals, blending, etc. Any good teacher will caution you to "wait and see" in grades K-1 (sometimes 2) before officials or parents begin to start the evaluation process. Therefore, most kids have had 1-3 yrs of an unsuccessful phonics program of some sort and though the program failed the dyslexic child, they learn their letter names and sounds through this method. (Even though they may still mix up or confuse the sounds.) When starting this book, a child may still be mixing up some of the letter sounds which is what you are refering to as "concept imagery". This means, the dyslexic, sees a letter as a shape or picture not assigned to a certain direction in order to mean something individual of that letter name and sound. If you have actually looked at the book (I suspect you have not based on your review) you would see that for example, Lesson 1 begins with blending short vowels with ONE constanant. We are talking about blending TWO sounds...that is pretty basic. A matter of fact it starts so basic, that the author discourages you from skipping ahead even if the child knows the basic vowel sounds.

As a side note: "Phenome Awareness" is a fancy word for breaking down blended sounds and making them individual or taking individual sounds and blending them...

"Intense Intervention" is someone certified (not always degreed) in a particular program (e.g. LindaMood Bell) NOT DYSLEXIA itself. This person spends countless hours implementing a program to your child so that they can learn to read with success....Its not a cure, magic, or always a complete success the first time around. Hands down, if you have the money, (which is really all you need~and a lot of it!) then this is the IDEAL approach to take with your child...

This book is well worth the $30 and WILL improve your childs reading. No, its not magic and will not "cure" your child, but no you will not be disappointed because, if you are looking to buy this book, then you already know that "intense intervention" is far from a "cure"....DYSLEXICS CAN NOT BE CURED, but through patience and love, your child can learn to read.....successfully.

I am the homeschooling parent of a dyslexic son aged 8 years. We had begun working on traditional phonics, spelling, reading topics around 3 to 4 years of age - the basics of alphabet followed by sounds, etc. - with all of our children. We quickly realized that our son was not progressing like some of the other children did. After two years of intense focus on phonics we were at wit's end when his achievement testing still indicated a reading level of Pre-K. We began researching curriculum that might be of assistance and came across this workbook which offered a downloadable trial version from the internet. Our son actually responded to the first few lessons quite well. We purchased the book and began using it for instruction.

I will admit, this curriculum is VERY hands on. It's not a 'toss the book at him and let him do it on his own' type curriculum. Mom or Dad MUST work alongside the child daily in oral exercises and dictation in order to fully utilize this curriculum. This is VITAL!! Also, in our experience, we found that we would do a chapter and then our son would need to review it (oftentimes MULTIPLE times) in order to fully master the concepts. We spent an entire year of instruction only covering the first 16 chapters of the book!

However, upon achievement testing, our son's results showed that he had progressed TWO grade levels in 6 months time! We were amazed! Since using this curriculum, our son has begun reading books on his own and is now reading at or above grade level. We still pinch ourselves to make sure we're not dreaming when he asks if he can stay awake just a little longer because he wants to read his book! We continue to use this curriculum, reviewing as needed, and highly recommend it to anyone educating a dyslexic child.

A Workbook for Dyslexics is a great resource for people who are teaching reading. We teach reading to adults and find this invaluable as it has everything you need in one place. We also use it for teaching ESL and it is just as useful there.

This workbook has been a life saver for me and my son. He is an 11yo boy with dyslexia. I have found this book to be extremely helpful. I appreciate the way it is laid out step by step. Each step building upon the last. Review is crucial for us and I give him plenty of that, using index cards and just reviewing the previous lessons. I highly recommend this workbook for a dyslexic student. Also by the same is author is a multiplication book for dyslexic/visual learners. That has also helped tremendously. Again I believe this book has provided me with the necessary tools to help my son. Thanks

This is a great resource with a lot of quick and easy to administer activities and lessons to help with reading difficulties. Although it is too early to see any true results, I believe it is helping my daughter overcome some of her reading problems and sometimes she even asks to do her lessons.

I bought this book for my son to use the summer before fifth grade. He had been diagnosed with dyslexia and was receiving vision therapy and was just beginning to see a tutor. We used it every day for three weeks when we were on vacation. We got through about half of this book before school started back with wonderful results. When we returned, his teacher and tutor couldn't believe the improvement in both reading and spelling in such a short time. Even his handwriting improved from all of the required practice writing words in the program. Systematic phonics instruction is just a piece of the process we have gone through to get my son to be a reader. He went from struggling with first grade level passages in fourth grade to passing the state reading test at the end of fifth grade. More importantly, he ENJOYS reading now and is capable of reading the books that a guy at his age enjoys. He enjoys school more because he is confident that he will not be lost when his teacher asks him to complete a reading/writing task in the regular classroom. I feel like this book helped jump start the process, which also included vision therapy. This book does not address all the problems a child with dyslexia faces, but it was a very effective part of the puzzle for us.

My 7-year-old son is struggling with dyslexia, and we've been taking a "try lots, see what works" approach. He gets special education services at school, we have him using Lexia Learning software, and lately he and I have been working through this workbook, spending about a half an hour a night on it. Since we began using the workbook, I've been shocked at how much more quickly he's been picking things up. (Hooray for well-thought-through exercises!)

The workbook is fairly straightforward. Each lesson has several components that focus on a particular type of sound -- short vowels, for instance, or /sh/ and /ch/. The adult reads text that introduces the key concepts, the child practices reading words containing the sound in question, and then there are writing exercises where the adult reads to the child and the child uses the rules they've just learned to figure out how to write the words they hear. Straightforward, right? But the exercises are designed in an order that seems to work very well for how my son learns, and they're just the right length that he gets plenty of practice without reaching a critical level of either boredom or frustration.

I'm thrilled so far. It's not terribly fancy, but it's certainly sound, and it's helping my son.

This is an excellent source for parents and teachers to help with the direct, explicit instruction of reading concepts that is so valuable to struggling readers. I am using it as a supplement in my classroom and am finding that it is a good source of additional practice for students who need it.

So far as of lesson 21 we are very well pleased with this book. We wished we had used it 9 years ago as son is now a young adult, 19 years old.
It is easy to use and straight to the point with short lessons to learn, practice and review. We like the visual layout of the book with
no babyish, extra stuff so that any age can benefit from the workbook. We like having the answers available and the use of the dictation
online is helpful for me as the teacher using the book with my son, the student. We are glad to find it affordable and simple to use
for our personal goals. Thanks !