Lessons on Showing Compassion to Children with Dyslexia

Lessons by Dr. Robert Zenhausern, CEO and Founder at Enabling Support Foundation

The way Dyslexics are taught can be considered as abuse of the disabled.

The most common problem in Dyslexia is in phonetic decoding.  But phonetic decoding is the way reading is taught and so these children have difficulty reading.  Furthermore, Sally Shaywitz has shown that dyslexics have an abnormal response in the brain system for phonetic decoding, indicating a physical brain disability.

The remediation strategy used by the Education Establishment is simple. That is to fix the brain dysfunction or teach phonetic decoding anyway.  This is equivalent to remediating the blind by making the light brighter.  They teach the deaf to read without phonetic decoding.  Why not the dyslexic?

Questions to move the conversations along in children and adults alike are how does it feel to be dyslexic?  Have you had a “tip of the tongue”?  For most, you know how you get when you are familiar with something but cannot find the words to say it.  How frustrating is that? How can teachers and parents show compassion at school and at home and educate in a meaningful strategy?

That is the frustration a child termed as dyslexic feels all the time.

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