– Steve Jobs
Explicit reading instruction can help students with dyslexia become the best readers they can be, but no matter how hard they try to become adequate readers, visual reading will remain effortful into adulthood.
– Steve Jobs
Explicit reading instruction can help students with dyslexia become the best readers they can be, but no matter how hard they try to become adequate readers, visual reading will remain effortful into adulthood.
Writing by Speaking and Reading by Listening is not just for students who are identified as eligible for special education services. It is for anyone who’s visual reading is not adequate for the reading that he or she is capable of understanding – slow readers, labored readers, etc. With the reading and writing barriers to print removed, students can focus on learning advanced skills – science, language, math, etc. College students and adults can realize their full potential in advanced studies and careers.
Note: The Need for Speed
Reading by listening is not listening, it’s reading.
It’s fast. The sound may be strange to you, but…
Our bright students with dyslexia can read this way with good comprehension and without getting tired, and…
It becomes normal sounding to them.
Writing by Speaking and Reading by Listening is not just for students who are identified as eligible for special education services. It is for anyone who’s visual reading is not adequate for the reading that he or she is capable of understanding – slow readers, labored readers, etc. With the reading and writing barriers to print removed, students can focus on learning advanced skills – science, language, math, etc. College students and adults can realize their full potential in advanced studies and careers.
Note: The Need for Speed
Reading by listening is not listening, it’s reading.
It’s fast. The sound may be strange to you, but…
Our bright students with dyslexia can read this way with good comprehension and without getting tired, and…
It becomes normal sounding to them.
I first heard the word dyslexia after I had spent 18 years trying to learn to read, flunke
Why do we insist that students must sound out and spell words instead of using reading by listening and writing by speaking
I am reminded of the monkey trap, where a monkey hunter drills a hole in a coconut, pushes food through the hole
Enable students to quickly and effortlessly show what they know on their tests.
Advocacy requires that parents and teachers learn what dyslexia is, what dyslexia is not, what we can reasonably expect from traditional reading instruction, what kinds of results students are getting with aural reading and oral writing, and what accommodations are available. Advocates need to know how to ask for accommodations, what the law says about the rights of persons with dyslexia
The first Aural Reading system was one person reading print for another person (user) who could not decode print visually for themselves, but because of the efforts of a few visionaries, the opportunities for persons with print disabilities were to go far beyond one person reading to another. In 1948, Anne T. Macdonald, a member of a women’s Auxiliary, responded to World War II