(Part 2) Top products from r/Dyslexia

My 13yo has the same issues and also has a very high IQ - while he has been diagnosed as dyslexic by Dyslexia Institutes of America another psychologist thinks he is not dyslexic. That being said, I think I am very mildly dyslexic and I learned other ways to do multiplication tables which I taught to him. Not much help with addition and subtraction and only a little help with division but its at least something. It is very basic but once he started to use it, it seems like he got a lot faster.

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Down the list:

1. Ones - of course are easy, and not worth mentioning
   
2. Twos - just double the number (also not really worth mentioning)
   
3. Threes - we use the song from Multiplication Rock Three is a Magic Number - three, six, nine, twelve, fifteen, eighteen, twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-seven, thirty, etc
   
4. Fours - double twos - ie 4x4 is 4x2x2 - so if you can easily do twos, you can do fours (as long as you can keep it in your head)
   
5. Fives - count by five (can keep track on your fingers - 1 finger for 5, 2 for 10, etc)
   
6. Sixes - double three
   
7. Sevens - these are the hardest - I don't really have an easy answer - I've had him remember things like 56 is 7x8 (5,6,7,8) - but basically he does sevens by using the other number and remembers 7x7 is 49
   
8. Eights - double fours or quadruple twos
   
9. Nines (my personal favorite) - take the number (single digit) that you want to multiply by 9 and subtract one - that's the first digit of the answer - the second digit of the answer makes the two digits add up to 9. For example 9x3 - that's subtract one from three to get 2 - then 2+7=9 so 9x3 is 27.
   
10. Tens - again not worth mentioning but add a zero
    
11. Elevens - for single digits easy - for double digits, add the two digits together and put the sum in the middle - so 11x12 is 1+2=3 so 132; 11x25 is 2+5=7 so 275, etc
    
12. Twelves - double six or quadruple three
    
    He used these methods along with fingers for adding until it somehow got easier for him - although I still don't think he could pass a timed math facts test, he can now do math facts.
    
    When I have to add a column of numbers, I end up using little tick marks - so I'll put six dots next to a six, etc because I also sometimes have problems quickly adding in my head.
    
    This is also an issue with people who are visual-spatial (both of us are.) Linda K Silverman and her website http://www.visualspatial.org/about.php have excellent resources. Dyslexia is very similar to being visual-spatial. If you go to the Articles on her website, there is a resource for teaching math to non-sequential learners, which uses some of the techniques that I mentioned. I highly recommend her website and her book Upside Down Brilliance. It has helped us so much!
    
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This is a copy paste of an email I've sent a couple of friends. My child has dyslexia and I found these resources useful. The Amazon links are not affiliate links or anything, just links to the books. The first two books were especially intersting and useful, and will apply even as an adult!

Dyslexic Advantage - by Brock and Fernette Eide


Overcoming Dyslexia - by Sally Shaywitz - the first part of the book is the most interesting - it's the science of dyslexia - the second is strategies for teaching/learning


Some other books:
I read them all - at least mostly - but I can't separate the info in my memory to remember which was best at what

• http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Kids-Who-Cant-Keep/dp/1609184726
  
• http://www.amazon.com/The-Dyslexia-Empowerment-Plan-Confidence/dp/0345541235
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Smart-but-Scattered-Revolutionary-Executive/dp/1593854455
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Right-Brained-Children-Left-Brained-World-Unlocking/dp/0684847930
  
  Some good websites:
  
  
• http://dyslexia.yale.edu/
  
• http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10435.aspx
  
• http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm
  
• https://www.understood.org/en
  
• https://www.understood.org/en/tools/tech-finder
  
• http://www.dyslexiaresourcegroup.com/
  
• http://dyslexia.yale.edu/EDU_signs.html < the yale site is good in general
  

Ben Foss might be of interest to you; he's a dyslexic that focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses. He has a strength assessment on his website to help identify and map your dyslexia

http://headstrongnation.org/adults/map-your-dyslexia

This is from school-age kids perspectives, they discuss their experiences, and talk about finding their strengths.

http://www.amazon.com/All-Kinds-Minds-Abilities-Disorders/dp/0838820905

This might be a good one too

http://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/

http://www.amazon.com/The-Dyslexic-Advantage-Unlocking-Potential/dp/0452297923

I would steer clear of Ron Davis, he is widely disputed in the dyslexia world.

I'm in my 40's and if anyone, friends or colleagues I know, tries to correct my spelling I jokingly say 'do you always pick on the disabled, remember I'm dyslexic. You look the sort that would, do you tell people in wheelchairs to try a little harder to walk' and laugh it off.

Have a look at this book The Hickey Multisensory Language Course Third Edition https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1861561784/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_DupVzb9YQG1PE

It's a little expensive but it's designed to teach children to read and write through multisensory lessons and it really helps. It's an hour a day where they get to learn about a single letter and it's sounds etc. They get to use playdough or other things to create the letters in their hands and each session you run through the previous letters through index cards the child has made themselves.

You could perhaps build your own system or suggest your school invests in it and a teaching assistant used to take any dyslexic students out of lessons 1 to 1 during the week.

I struggle with basic math (but oddly not advanced math concepts) on account of my dyslexia, too. A few resources that I have found handy are:

• Mathematics for Dyslexics 3rd Ed. by Chinn & Ashcroft
  
• The Complete Book of Fingermath by Edwin M. Lieberthal
  
  Other books I have found helpful include Ray's Arithmetic (an 8+ volume set of schoolhouse math books from ~150 years ago; Mott Media has reprints readily available on Amazon. Also, any book you can find on the basics of numbers and counting might be helpful. For me at least my math problems boil down to a subtle bug in my brain's ability to skip-count.
  
  Thank you very much for the upside-down brilliance link. I'll check it out.

An easy and great read (IMO) is The Journeys of Socrates: An Adventure.


http://www.amazon.com/The-Journeys-Socrates-An-Adventure/dp/0060833025

I was exactly the same as /u/Ismith946, diagnosed in university, never picked up through school. But looking back it was pretty obvious all the signs were there, I just had the "skills" in place to cope with mainstream education. It was only when the education requirements increased that I struggled and was unable to cope.

Reading the [Dyslexic Advantage] (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Dyslexic-Advantage-Unlocking-Hidden-Potential/dp/1848506392) has helped me in numerous ways, most importantly, dyslexia really is only a disability in modern education, thinking differently is possibly an advantageous mutation. It also helped explain how the brain is different in dyslexics and this in turn helped me have a starting point in how I may struggle and what I can do to help myself.

I also have the theory that school education is very repetitive, you're there 6hrs+ a day doing the same things, reading, writing, and as you grow older you do these things less. Think about your handwriting after having the summer off when you were younger! So by not doing these repetitive things you're having to make up ground to get back to what you class as normal.

If you're worried and struggling, do homework, practice your left and rights ( I still always look at my hands, left hand makes an L with thumb outstretched), practice writing, do a bit of reading, build it up.
Don't worry though, you'll get there with a bit of time and patience.

I would recommend that you get something like [this] (http://www.amazon.co.uk/ACE-Spelling-Dictionary-David-Moseley/dp/1855034786) if he has trouble spelling. I haven't actually used one, only heard about it not long ago.

Here's a video explaining a bit how it's used

Check this out:
https://www.amazon.com/Wild-Book-Margarita-Engle/dp/0544022750

Sorry, brain melt, I mean mind map:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Mind-Map-Tony-Buzan/dp/0007146841/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330598789&sr=8-1

Spatial and memory issues are often co-morbid with dyslexia and dyspraxia. Some researchers believe this is related to stunted growth of myelin sheaths over neurons during infant brain development--this book on dyspraxia goes into the mechanics of that while still being reader-friendly.

I am not dyslexic but words do move around on the page when I'm very tired. Words and sentences will move closer to me or further back and then drift into other rows, forming nonsense phrases and making me think I'm hallucinating. It may be an exhaustion or stress issue, or even related to my astigmatism.