Letter to dyslexics

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The list of dyslexia techniques on offer below is also on the “About me” page: it is the essence of what is on offer on this website.  Soon I will be selling a pdf (for £5) which explains all the dyslexia techniques listed along with contextual information. If anyone wants any further assistance with these techniques, tuition with me cost £45 an hour.   I am a trained dyslexia diagnostician so also offer screenings for the same price. I am currently teaching non-readers and/or their teachers and helpers to read free of charge. This includes the technique for reading comprehension, a technique that is only available from me: I developed it carefully which included paying my students the minimum wage for taking reading matter home and trying out variations on the order of protocol. If there is someone you want to teach reading to, then I will gladly work with both you and your pupil, together, free of charge. I will also work with Zoom groups of struggling readers and come into schools with no hourly charge. 

I was Education Officer in Haringey before I became a university dyslexia tutor. The problem with that post is that it did not include teaching other than one youngster who had taken and driven away a car, crashed it and still had head injuries.  He had not believed anyone would every succeed in teaching him to read.  I taught him to read in my lunch hour.  Voice techniques made all the difference to him.  My year there has left me with the sadness of knowing that, every year, more non-readers are let loose into Haringey who become the immediate fodder of the criminal world.  My findings (as posted on pdf on the "About me" page) were that it was the dyslexics, more than any other sub-group of fledgling criminals, who were beyond help:  they were too much under the thumb of their criminal friends who could read.  It is my hope that, through this website, I will be able to go some way towards ending this misery for all of us. 

                           DYSLEXIA TECHNIQUES which are also listed on the "ABOUT ME" page

1. Learning sounds and blends: a teacher can tell the dyslexic what the sound of a letter of blend is many times, in vain. The dyslexic will learn in the short-term but forget by the next day. This is because it is the dyslexic who must say these sounds in their own natural ways while simultaneously looking at them on paper. Only when something has been processed by the natural (not rehearsed) voice is it sufficiently processed to gain entry into the long-term memory.

2. Scanning technique: the phonological dyslexic with no techniques finds it impossible to read a long word they have never seen before, even if they know all the sounds in the word. The scanning technique is a technique that enables them to successfully tackle any long word they don’t know.

3. Reading comprehension: at the essence of dyslexia is an inability to process sound and meaning at the same time. Not surprisingly, then, all dyslexics have comprehension problems. For this there is a technique which is so effective that I have seen students on the brink of giving up law because it is so difficult for them to understand their law books change their minds and then achieve excellent exam results

3b There is a part b to this which enables a dyslexic in an exam room to use the reading comprehension method without disturbing anyone.

4. Revision: Years ago, when in the presence of a dyslexic student with a first class honours degree, I asked her how she managed to memorise exam information (this is difficult for the dyslexic who doesn’t have this revision technique). “I talk to the wall,” she replied. I have taught over one thousand dyslexic students this technique. All of them graduated with a 2.1 or first. Not one went lower.

5. Spelling: there is a fast voice technique to be combined with a visual technique for spelling

6. Note taking: there are two kinds of note-taking, one for one-to-one information, the other for taking notes from lectures. Both require recording equipment which can be Voice Memos on your iPhone

7. Transcribing words from a book or the white board with maximum speed

8. Essay writing: how to write in an organised way, quickly and with fluency. There is an easy exercise 

anyone can do to prove to themselves how easily using their own voice will substantiate what would  otherwise be a sequence of statements.

9. Summarising text without losing important information

10.Organising notes and other information

11.Notes squares for the perfectly composed paper or essay, dissertation, PhD or book (like painting by numbers but extremely rapid)

12.Proof reading: this is not just a case of reading your work back aloud. There is more to it than that

13.Going blank in exams and when speaking The most important thing for the dyslexic student to understand is why they go blank in exams or when speaking and what to do when that happens.

14.Oral presentations: what the dyslexic needs to know to make impressive oral presentations.

15.Mind mapping and why it is crucial for good exam results to learn this skill.

16.Exam technique: for example what to substitute for mind mapping

17.Organisational skills

18.Scotopic sensitivity

19.Word pronunciations: how to learn securely

20.Dyspraxia: what is it and do dyspraxics benefit from voice techniques (yes, they do)