dyseidetic dyslexia specifically

[zaichiki]

So I just found out that there are TWO types of dyslexia. The methods used to remediate one aren't the most efficient to remediate the other.

Anyone out there with a child diagnosed with dyseidetic dyslexia? What reading and spelling programs have you found to be the MOST helpful for your child?

Thank you.

[AngieW in Texas]

I don't have time now, but I'll post extensively tomorrow. My 11yo has dyseidetic dyslexia.

If you let me know what level your dc is at right now and how old your dc is, I can be more helpful.

[zaichiki]

If you let me know what level your dc is at right now and how old your dc is, I can be more helpful.

Angie,
I pm'ed you.
Thanks!

[AngieW in Texas]

I didn't think I'd be able to get back on tonight.

I found your post on the General Board. So your 7yo is the one you think has dyseidetic dyslexia?

It does sound like it from your description.

My dd wasn't able to learn any words on sight at first. At 7yo, she couldn't even recognize her own name until she laboriously sounded it out. If you printed the same word on a sheet of paper 5 times, she couldn't tell by looking that the words were the same. She couldn't tell they were the same until she heard herself sound out and then say the same word again. And then she thought that she had been tricked.

I tried Reading Reflex with her, but she couldn't get past basic code. She also couldn't get over the hump of sounding out every word, every time.

We did vision therapy when she was 6.5yo. That corrected her eye jerking, tracking, sweeping, depth perception, double vision, and eye suppression. It did not correct her visual processing delay or fix her dyslexia. The VT recommended that I get her tested for dyslexia when she finished therapy.

I got her tested at the local ps when she was 7.25yo and I posted the results everywhere in an attempt to find something that would work. My dd tested in the 99th percentile for IQ, but qualified as having an LD in all academic areas. She had discrepancies as high as 3 standard deviations. The ps folks told me they had never seen anybody test like my dd. They had no idea how to teach her to read.

I had her read the I See Sam readers because they were actually decodable for her. They were the first books that she could sort of read. The Bob books hadn't worked at all. She considered those to be baby books.

I had several moms post to me that they had a kids like mine who had made great progress with Headsprout. It had a 30-day money-back guarantee, so I tried it. That program made a huge difference for my dd. It got her over the hump of sounding words out every time. It had games that worked specifically on visual processing skills that she was weak in. It had auditory processing skills too, but my dd didn't have issues in that area. After just one month of working in Headsprout, my dd doubled her reading speed. By the end of Headsprout, she had many words that she could recognize on sight and she was able to move on to advanced code.

I had her re-read the I See Sam books from set 1-3 with Headsprout part 1 and the books from set 4 (which she hadn't ever read before) with Headsprout part 2. These correlated quite well. They didn't follow exactly the same scope and sequence, but they generally covered the same information within 1-2 weeks of each other.

After she finished Headsprout, I wasn't sure what to try next. She definitely needed more instruction. She was reading around 1st grade level at that point (halfway through 2nd grade). I got a recommendation to try Funnix level 2 at that point. Funnix 2 starts right where Headsprout ends.

Funnix 2 worked out nicely. My dd enjoyed the stories. It wasn't as engaging as Headsprout, but my dd actually liked it better because it didn't look as young. She was 7.75yo when she started Funnix 2.

I found Phonics for Reading by Curriculum Associates while she was working through Funnix. I started her in level 2 concurrently with Funnix 2. When she finished Funnix 2, we switched to working on PfR#2 every day. PfR was very good for working on multisyllable words. The stories weren't very good though.

By this time my dd was about to go into 3rd grade and was 8.25yo. I found a local reading tutor who was highly recommended. I had her do an evaluation of my dd and make recommendations for what I should do. At that point, my dd was about to start 3rd grade and was reading at early 2nd grade level. Her reading speed was extremely slow, 50-60wpm in material at 2.0 level. The tutor recommended that I do daily nonsense word work and daily timed readings. She had me use the DIBELS Oral Reading Fluency Passages (free), starting with the 1st grade level. She told me to have my dd re-read each passage until she was able to read it at 100cwpm. It took her most of the way through 3rd grade to get through all 20 of the passages at 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade levels. She finished PfR#2 at 8.5yo and started PfR#3.

At the start of 4th grade, she was reading solidly at a 3rd grade level, but her first reading of a passage was still pretty slow and she completely ignored punctuation. We just kept on with what we had been doing. By the end of 4th grade, she tested at grade level.

We did another evaluation at the ps at that point. Her CTOPP scores were more interesting this time. Her blending score was in the 5th percentile, rapid digit naming in the 9th percentile, rapid letter naming in the 37th percentile, but elision (segmenting) was in the 84th percentile. She did the TOWRE test this time and scored from 39th to 42nd percentiles. On the GORT, she scored in the 50th-63rd percentiles for rate, accuracy, and fluency; but scored 95th percentile for comprehension. At this point she qualified as LD only for written expression.

We were going back to the tutor every 4 months for an evaluation and recommendations for what to do, but I stopped when she hit grade level halfway through 4th grade. We haven't been back.

We did Rewards Reading (Sopris West) during 5th grade.

That's all now. I'll see if I can think of anything else tomorrow.