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Thread #124046   Message #2737784
Posted By: Rasener
04-Oct-09 - 05:59 AM
Thread Name: BS: Things that help people with Dyslexia
Subject: RE: BS: Things that help people with Dyslexia
Lizzie
Nothing wrong with you participating, but come up with something new and original.

All you keep on doing is talking about your children and Home Learning and about how crap the schooling system is. Most of that is copied information that has been written by sombody else.

Stop preaching and provide us with tools and ideas that will help parents who have dyslexic children do the best for their children.

Step outside you problems and look at how you can help other people who do not understand Dyslexia, without ramming your self centred doctrination on us all the time.

I realise that you have had a tough time, but then most of us have a tough time, but how do we help people see the wood from the trees.

This is the sort of idea I mean, but is not necessarily related to Dyslexia. This was a person with severe issues.

I have on numerous occasions, had to be involved with teaching people IT skills who clearly have a problem with using the mouse to point and click and that leads to frustration and anger at times.

I remember once when a man who had mental issues and great difficulty holding and using the normal mouse. Before I was involved with this person, people were just forcing him to use the computer without looking at his personal needs to help him achieve.

I watched him for 5 minutes struggling. I had a mouse like this http://www.infogrip.com/product_view.asp?RecordNumber=98 which I had used in the early days for my daughter at home. The next time I saw him, I had installed this mouse on the computer and got him, to try using it. It worked a real treat and instead of anger and frustration, he suddenly had a tool that helped him to use the computer. I then put put a program on the PC that allowed him to use an on screen keyboard, that predicted words and sentences as he clicked on each letter. He used the mouse with it, and suddenly from somebody who could hardly speak more than a sentence clearly, he was able to create word documents that had meaning.
His whole world changed becuase he was now able to communicate with the outside world and make sense. He went on to e-mailing his relatives and getting e-mails back from them.
All I ever got from him was smiles after that.
I gave him the mouse to keep and he was so overjoyed he burst out crying.
The cost of solving that was minimal, but it had a major impact on this person.

Have you got things like that , where other people can benefit from, without involving how good your family is etc etc. I am sure you have.