Dealing with Dyslexic Learners

Perhaps the term is used too liberally but a dyslexic person is likely just going to be someone who is slower than normal and not as quick in putting information together to get his words out in an intelligible sentence. There may be varying degrees of intensity and it can usually be confused with a person who is just a slow learner. But the inability to absorb certain sentence structures or to reproduce a a visualized sentence could be a question of misunderstanding the phonetic sounds associated with certain letter combinations and this is a characteristic of dyslexia.

What many teachers can do to coach a student through this is to go over sounds that they would normally associate to certain letters. Having them go over groups of words with similar sounds and seeing similarities in their spelling can help them overcome their difficulties. It does take time to get them to differentiate between certain letter groups sounds and others and this can be found out through reading and writing a dictation.

When a student is overly distracted or fails to focus over similar sentence structures he could have this reading disorder but it is most evident when there is a certain anxiety related to having to reproduce sentence structures or tense forms the average reader will take for granted. Sheer practice will have those students catch up to their peers but often there is a lack of self-esteem because they feel judged.