I would really really appreciate some help here, especially from experts/experienced people who work in the dyslexia field in schools.
Basically, DS is English speaking and, like millions of children all over the world, is learning to read the Arabic script without understanding a single word of the language. By his age most kids (who also dont understand a word) would be able to fly across the page faster than you or I could read aloud in English.
DSs dyslexia comes with good level of intelligence, fairly sound phonic base (maybe that is why he can read?), and can read at age level BUT he skim reads (very effectively) to avoid reading accurately, has poor comprehension and muddles up words if reading aloud. Also has poor processing speeds and struggles to hold more than one or two pieces of information in his brain at a time (eg 3 part mental arithmetic sum is extremely difficult).
The problem is, there are many people who have taught thousands of "regular" nonArabic speaking students to read the Arabic script fluently, and many dyslexia specialists in native languages (even Arabic I am sure in the gulf), but noone with the specialist skills to help struggling readers decode a foreign script fluently when there are ZERO context clues for self correction ie if you dont know the language you have no way of knowing that you just said odg instead of dog
I'm almost certain noone will have direct experience but I know there are lots on this board who have plenty of knowledge that must be transferrable somehow, so if anyone thinks they may be able to help I can explain more about how Arabic script works and what the stumbling blocks are (as this is vv long already!!!).
Thank you
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dyslexicboy · 22/10/2011 08:37
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