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DDAI Webmaster (Abigail)
| | Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 06:09 pm: | 
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I have heard of some people successfully using different colors of clay for different alphabets - but I don't think that's entirely necessary. The important part would be to model and fully master each alphabet separately. If there is confusion, as part of the mastery the student might look at at letter and identify it as "H in English" or "English H" - then for the same letter, she would say the Russian name ("en"? I'm not completely sure here).
Of course with word modeling it is important to try to keep the languages separate - if her Russian skills are good then she simply might do all of the steps of Symbol Mastery in Russian. If not, she might point to a word and say "this says ___ in Russian".
I hope this helps.
Best wishes,
Abigail |
Keith Snail
| | Posted on Friday, December 16, 2005 - 06:49 pm: |
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We have a 9 year old son who is in a French Immersion program in the Washington DC area. He was diagnosed with Dyslexia last year and is also Gifted & Talented. We speak English at home. It took over a year of meetings with his school (and thousands of $$ of testing) to get them to finally agree to giving him special educational services. This year as a fourth grader, his reading, spelling & comprehension grades have really plummeted. (Reading to learn rather than learning to read?) I'm wondering whether two languages are too much for someone with Dyslexia and am actively searching for a tutor to help him. |
libby
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 08, 2006 - 07:55 am: |
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My son six year old son is about to go to the Lycee in DC in September 2006 and although we are in the process of having him tested but deep down we are pretty sure he is dyslexic. We also speak English at home which is his first language so it is difficult for me to provide support for him. I would also be actively looking for someone to coach him on arrival. Can you advise me what type of support the school gave you. I fully appreciate your concerns considering you have made an enormous investment in his education (not necessarily financial) to provide him with more opportunities as a bilingual child.
Libby |
Divishinating
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| | Posted on Monday, February 05, 2007 - 07:41 pm: |
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I know this is old, but my boyfriend has dyslexia and was in French Immersion. He doesn't appear to have any more problems because of it. I believe it's just important that your child have a handle on English both reading and writing it as well as French. So a little bit of tutoring at home every day perhaps.
hope that helps,
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Psicopink
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| | Posted on Tuesday, August 03, 2010 - 01:43 am: |
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It interesting to see other peoples opinion I don't think is a case of wrong or right i like the sound of colour coding the alphabet to individualise the different letters more, you might even have a grater limbic response the more "memory markers" you give some thing the better you will remember it & more depth you create but not always in my case i would remain confused its more a problem of having the memory of what you want convinced you right but its a corrupted memory i am trilingual i don't think it hinders it gives me more options when i verbalise my thoughts and it can be corrected later other languages are more descriptive and easer to describe and spell in what i am saying in a very round about way is do what works for you but try every thing first good luck
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