We just had a reading intervention seminar for parents of our pupils this week and I was tasked to discuss about learning disabilities and what parents can do to help their children. I made a very simple presentation on interventions which I found from my readings.

1. Learning Disability
And Interventions you can
do
Roxanne H. Fuentes

2. Disclaimer:
• No two people with dyslexia are exactly alike
because dyslexia ranges from mild to
moderate to severe to profound. Some people
with dyslexia also have ADD/ADHD.
• Only a developmental pediatrician can
properly diagnose a child with a learning
disability.
• http://www.dys-add.com/dyslexia.html

3. Dyslexia
• No generalization. (Can read a wordon one
page, can’t identify on the other)
• Substitution – house for horse, beach for
bench
• Reversal - /b-d/ /b-p/ /n-u/ /m-w/
• Becomes visibly tired after reading.
• Omission – ang, ay, ni, si
http://www.dys-add.com/dyslexia.html

4. Dysgraphia
• Handwriting is illegible.
• Illegible copied work.
• Irregular sizes, shapes or slants of letters.
• Inconsistent spacing
• Omission, Substitution, Reversal
http://www.sess.ie/categories/specific-learning-disabilities/dysgraphia
https://ldaamerica.org/types-of-learning-disabilities/dysgraphia/

5. • Children with Learning Disabilities,
for instance, Dyslexia, have a problem
with left-brained styles of learning:
logic, rationalization, sequence and
analysis.
• Children with Learning Disabilities
can be hyperactive.
http://www.aboutlearningdisabilities.c
o.uk/learning-styles-for-children-with-
learning-disabilities.html

6. • Kinesthetic
• Tactile
• Multi-sensory
• Why do parents need to know
this?

7. Read with your child.
•Connect
words to
pictures.
•Ask questions.

8. Read on the go.
• The world is
full of words.
• Mcdonald’s,
Jollibee, etc.

9. Read aloud.
• Focus on one
word at a
time.
• Let your child
choose
reading
material.

10. Write, Recite and Repeat.

11. Use coloured background.

12. Painting

13. Reversal Fist Trick

14. String and Straw Play

15. Glue it!

16. Sky Writing

17. Sandpaper Flashcard

18. Tracing Letters on Rice, soil, etc.