Access some of the best free dyslexia resources
Anyone who has read my book, ‘Dyslexia. Wrestling With An Octopus’ will know how highly I rate the resources produced by All About Learning Press. In this post, I will give you the link to over 50 free dyslexia resources produced by that company.
Marie Rippel, the developer of these resources, has a similar story to my own. She struggled to find anything that would help her dyslexic son learn to read. Fortunately for all parents in a similar position, Marie devised a multi-sensory program based on the Orton-Gillingham approach. Here is an affiliate link to a free booklet about Orton-Gillingham. This is quote from the booklet:
“The Orton-Gillingham approach helps take the mystery out of reading and spelling by translating sounds into phonograms and by teaching students to apply rules and generalizations that help make reading and spelling much easier. After all, even though the English language contains just 26 letters, these letters combine to create 44 speech sounds, and there are over 250 ways to spell those sounds.
It’s easy to see why reliable rules are so valuable for students as they learn to read and spell. The Orton-Gillingham approach has been effectively proven over decades. But as a quick overview, the Orton-Gillingham approach works because it…
Instills confidence
Helps children overcome learning disorders
Makes it easier for children to learn to read, including children with dyslexia and other learning challenges”
Marie’s resources made all the difference to my dyslexic son.
This isn’t a post about how to use ‘All About Reading’ or ‘All About Spelling.’ For a blog post on using these resources, click here, but in the meantime, I wanted to share with you some excellent free resources Marie has on her site. This is an affiliate link and using it help to fund my website.
I taught my son to read and spell in 30 minutes a day. Here are my affiliate links to the resources I used, All About Spelling and All About Reading.
If your child also struggles to learn the multiplication tables, check out this blog post on how using stories will help them remember the facts.
Speechify is an app that can help children at school as it reads text from websites. Here is my affiliate link https://bit.ly/3AbVxRO