Can you imagine me being dyslexia as a medical student while my family didn’t want me to seek for a professional help? It’s very hard going through all these years by myself reading every page of a book very slowly😢, being bullied for always repeating every line that i’ve read just to understand it and not to lose the paragraph line. I , who are very slow at remembering fast speaking of words/numbers while your teacher (doctor) is very sensitive when you asked him/her to repeat/confirm the medicine doses one more time.😢
Assistive technology was a game changer! Use it! It made me independent in school and I didn’t have to rely on someone to spell things for me or lose my train of thought trying to figure out how to spell a word on my own.
I can't able to think further and memories in reading is impossible for me to do that If I can't able to spell the sentence correctly I did repeat the sentence for more than 25 time to get satisfaction on that. Iam cursed person 😣😫😢😢
I'm after some advice from fellow dylexics, I'm trying to read a book.. I can read all the words fine as my dyslexia isnt too bad but I'm having a problem with getting the sentences to register in my brain what I've just read, I read a few pages and then not remember much of what I've just read, I think it's possible because I'm trying too hard to focus on reading it correctly then actually taking it into my brain on what the book is saying to me, I seem to skip words when reading and then i presume what the following words are going to say and then the sentences don't make any sense so I have to reread em again and I think that is messing my flow up where I'm spending too much time rereading the sentences then actually taking it in, as I said I can read all the words fine its something to do with the way I'm reading is wrong... I'm after some tips that might help, like... Would reading it very slowly (like in slow mo) be more beneficial so I can read every word writin and not change the sentences to what I think it's about to say Would it help if I Read a page quickly to see what it's talking about and then reread the whole page again to absorb the information better Reading the book aloud as I find it easier then reading in my head Anybody got anymore tips that can help, thanks
This may sound counter intuitive but read, read, read material about many different subjects. This will increase your vocabulary such that you can make better "guesses" about what many longer words are without "reading" the full word. After each sentence ask yourself if the sentence made sense, if not go back over the sentence to find the word(s) that you misinterpreted. Another one is read and reread and reread simpler "chapter books", my favourite was Winnie the Pooh books - simple and predictable sentences - this can help reading comprehension. Personally in third grade I read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in its original format of spelling - I actually found it easier to read as the spelling made more sense to me. The teacher was not impressed by my using the same spelling and word usage so I was sent to a tutor. The tutor picked up that I knew the word usage and correct spelling of the, they, them, then, there, their, they're (learning these took considerable work on my part) so from testing me on longer multi syllable words she identified my issue of figuring out a longer word then assuming that a word with a similar start was the first word that I had figured out. I was that weird kid that was also smart and much stronger then my peers - undiagnosed ASD, ADHD (2e), ODD and dyslexic - that would get "bullied" into fighting the new kid (I always won). At 15 years old I had a serious concussion - I could read but could not retain going from word to word. Before that concussion I had learned French and could read novels in French, had taught myself Latin and was working on learning Spanish, Italian, German and had just started on Russian and Welsh. As a rainy day bookworm I was very frustrated by being unable to read. Being able to see the roots of the different words from different languages helped me to retain words to where I could remember them as I read a sentence but reading something then answering questions about it was almost impossible to do. Going to College a Professor identified that I seemed to have a lag between assigned readings and being able to answer questions about those readings - during the year he would give a number of snap multiple choice quizzes, a week later he would have them marked then pass them back to us, he would then ask random students to read a question then give what the had answered and if it was incorrect to identify what they thought was the correct answer - I covered his marks and would be able to 100% identify the correct answers even though I had a failing mark. Well, I quit college and went on to a number of different jobs, my rainy day reading was mainly pulp westerns. At age 25 I tried college again in a subject I was interested in, then went on to university and was able to get good marks. Got an official diagnosis of dyslexia when my oldest son was having significant issues with reading and was diagnosed - for him a transparent coloured sheet to put over the page helped him, the person also told him to try my suggestions of working around his reading issues as "his teachers are not always right" (he had really major issues trying to read "whole words").
try to find some books that are audible? Have you tried reading aloud? Try jotting a few key words in the margin of a notebook when you read to help with comprehension.
Dear British Dyslexia association- please can you do a kick ass video about ‘Low Latent Inhibition’. It is very good for empowering and understanding dyslexic people (& self-understanding self advocacy, self-compassion)? #Iamdyslexic
I’m at the point of just give up teaching reading. At this point nothing is going on so I’m just wasting my breath and time. Don’t know what else to do?
