I don’t know about you, but I hear that a lot. Children who zoom out in class or when getting instructors elsewhere, only understand “blah! Blah! Blah!”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Especially teachers who are finding it hard to be entertaining, creating sessions for interactive and creative students. Not an easy task for poor teachers!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Dyslexic children who easily daydream, are distracting and distracted, have different needs when it comes to learning. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Instructions should be shorter and include descriptive language, language that helps them form pictures and movies in their head of sometimes complex concepts. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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They react better to hands in learning, and group projects that are creative and include mining their ideas and problem solving talents. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I have met some awesome teachers that have done that and it’s so inspiring to watch them and the effect on their students.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Humour is an important aspect. My son, being dyslexic, has a great sense of humour, even if not always intentional.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Sometimes mistakes are epic stories we cherish and repeat, in good humour - and other times he makes fun of our little quirks and usually hits the mark.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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He’d imitate and exaggerate phone calls of his dad , when he arranges to meet hundreds of friends and relatives while on holidays in Austria. We’d kill ourselves laughing with his witty take on simple everyday situation and turn them into a Seinfeld-worthy sitcom episode. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
I wouldn’t be surprised if Seinfeld and his writers are on the right brain spectrum. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Is your son about to become a comedian too? When my son was about eight, he told us he’d want yo be a Canadian.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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We figured out soon, that he meant to become a comedian! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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And he stayed true to it for a long time. Being the class clown is one of the favourite and least confrontational way of hiding the inability to learn, to follow in class -or to comprehend. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Another one I’ve seen with some clients is: “that’s sooo boring...” also sounds better than “I have no idea what you are talking about!”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Daydreaming is also popular. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
“Oh, if only your son would pay attention, he’d be doing so much better.”⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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What’s your child hiding behind?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Don’t you think that there are many benefits to bring in lock-down due to Covid19? I for example see more people than ever reading books.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
And after a correction program many students become avid readers, devouring whole series of books.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Sam is one of these passionate readers. Since he completed the dyslexia correction course a couple of years ago, his parents can’t keep up getting him enough books. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
He now wants to become a teacher, he told me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
My son, too, started a book club and all members prefer physical books to kindle versions.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Love the trend!
Jarred’s story has been a great lesson for me; it has changed the three of us: Jarred, his mum and me. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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It has become a yardstick for the One Year School.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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How can we get lessons across the fear barrier? How can we avoid the meltdowns? Facilitate more holistically; address emotional, mental and nutritional issues; package lessons into games and visualisations - and have fun while learning.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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There had to be a road to success, a blueprint to follow, without following rules of a system that hadn’t worked for the visual learners, dyslexic children, children or adults with ADD, ADHD...⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Visit tomorrow to find out how Jarred’s story ended.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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