Not everyone is a good reader, my best mate and best man at my wedding is dyslexic, a brilliant plant mechanic, but he can't read for sh*tte. He gets paid mega $$ working in the Qld mines and I got him onto audio books, he listens to them travelling to and from work and at night to relax him before he goes to sleep ..... He says it's the best thing ever, conversations no longer go over his head because he now understands a lot of what is being talked about and can join in rather than being on the outside .... it has even helped him follow what the service sheets are telling him rather than watching what others do and then doing the same thing but quicker.
He has reached the stage of following along in the book as he is listening, so the words and letters have a better meaning .... I guess we all did that with our kids when we were teaching them to read and they'd get good enough to know when you were cheating reading their favourite bedtime story
The two different colour lenses in the glasses are said to be really good for those with dyslexia .....T1 Terry
After a discussions I told the lad to grab his things as he was no longer going to THAT school. Went and collected his twin sister from another class and informed her teacher she too was no longer a student there. Hour later they enrolled in the local catholic school and he advanced instantly as he could now read using his glasses. He also had ceribal palsy that did not help. They then found the daughter had a learning difficulty that they were able to correct. Cost a lot less per year for son to attend that school and zero for daughter as they were twins and enrolled together
with the glasses on he jumped about 4 years and was on pare with the rest of his class. Take them off and he went straight back. Had the same problem with maths as the teacher insisted he sit out side as he asked too many question to try and learn. Teacher response was he was too dumb. I taught him basic maths over a couple of nights and then he challenged the teacher on basics such as 1/2 1/4 and simple multiplication etc. He got them all right and apparently quicker than the teacher. Trouble was when he was asked to do it on paper he used my outdated methods so failed as the teacher could not follow it. Had the same problem when I was doing a computer course on spreadsheets as the teacher could not find my macros. When I displayed them he could not read them as I just used the letters where he needed the letter in one cell and a explanation in cell alongside it. I told him the test was to create a sheet for a business and the macros were hidden to stop uneducated people from mucking around, and if he could not read my macros then he should not be playing around.
