Should I get a dyslexia tutor for dd over the summer

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She is 8 and will be going into year 5.

She has just had ed psych assessment paid for by the school and she has an a official diagnosis.

I dont really know how to help although she is making progress I don't want to lose momentum over the holidays.

Have booked her into a dyslexia "club" after school starting in September.

The trouble is im not sure we can really afford 1:1 at £35 an hour every week. Do you think she would benefit from fotnighy sessions and then maybe work with me on stuff ( typically whilst she is a good girl and will do anything for her teachers she is pretty stubborn and will resist doing stuff with me). Or would she not get the benefit of it only every other week?

Could you get her doing the library reading trail over the summer?

Thats a good idea littleturkish. Ill look into it ;)

How did you find the dyslexia after school club?

I paid fortnightly for my daughter, as could not afford weekly, it helped her as 6 weeks holiday is a long time for a dyslexics brain not to be working.
Does she like simple games on the iPad (or similar) anything for simple brain training helps.

I'm dyslexic not discovered till older than your dd. at moment i own my own business at mo. I feel blessed i was given dyslexia as it's given e more than you can imagine. Just get her interested in reading full stop. My mum let me read Enid Byton books at breakfast. Read, read and read and make it fun...... As someone mentioned the library trial. Just make reading fun. Anything she's interested in let her do or read. What matters whats she reading. Has she been shown the 9 times table that you sort out with your fingers. I've even lucky to have sone amazing teachers that took one look at me and took me through it and I kept passing and I got my degree. Still dont get the right and left thing.....

If she doesn't like working with you, would she work on the computer?

If so you could try
Wordshark
www.wordshark.co.uk/wordshark/wordshark-home-use.aspx
or
Nessy
www.nessy.com/uk/product/nessy-reading/

Or if you can get her to do 10 mins a day with you then look at the Sound Foundations books
www.soundfoundationsbooks.co.uk/

Maybe the Fast Track depending on her reading level

These would work out cheaper than a weekly tutor until Sept.

Dd is 6 and has been going to a dyalexic tutor weekly for 6 months. I think its worth it tbh and want to keep going with it

Have you had a meeting with her school and the person organising her support in school?

Ask what work they will be doing when she gets back to school, what schemes they use so you can help her at home.

Find out what reading band she is at and aim to read together every night.

If there are any word groups you could review with her.

What maths she has learned this year and what level/scheme so you can review with her over the holidays.

If they can give you any homework for her.

Another poster on a dyslexic thread has linkef to the apple and pares wedsite, they are work books and a set of teacher handbook and four workbooks cost 100 which look very good for eaching phonics.

If reading is an issue I wold recommend the toe by toe book. It needs to be done everyday until completed, this may take years, but no more than 10 mins a day.

It also depends on how good the tutor is and what they will plan to teach your child.

I would think teaching a student starting high school time management, organisation in regards to homework diary, revision and studying would be worth it but simply re reading ORT books which you could do would not be worth it.

Air of Hope
Apples and Pears is Sound Foundations as well which I've linked to above.

Depending on what the report said, I would focus at least in part on core phonics work. They really need it to progress in reading. DS1 & 2 are both dyslexic and DS1 took off with reading when he was 7 but that was after doing additional phonics work since Yr1. DS2 is 6 and he is starting to get more confident but again he has had phonics training for Yr1 and Yr2.

Reading is great but they need the gaps in their phonics knowledge filled before they will become strong readers. However, do encourage reading, read to your DD and don't rule out audiobooks. If she is a hesistant reader she may not get the rhythm, flow and expression in her reading but she will hear and learn that from hearing someone else read.

Sorry forgot to add
Toe by Toe is good but it is a bit dry so if she is resistant to working with you it may become a battle.

Thanks for all of these suggestions

Find books that she can engage with and that are easy to read. By that I mean the flow. When I read a book out loud, including children's books, some are very easy to read and with others, well. I. start. to. read. like. this. Because the writing isn't good for dyslexics.

I find JK Rowling's Harry Potter very easy to read out loud as I'm reading it to DS(8) at the moment. Reading HP (or a similar dyslexia-friendly book) to her will help her understand the structure and flow without consciously trying.

Glad your DD was diagnosed early and that you're supporting her. I'm sure she will blossom.

Julia Donaldson books are dyslexia-friendly. Have a look in the shops as some have a "dyslexia-friendly" label on the front.

Great. Thanks some good ideas here

I have a dyslexia tutor but she does not work over the summer holidays. So that could be an issue.

Agree with reading being the key, and to encourage the love of reading.
Do you know if she would benefit from coloured acetates/book marks, to change the contrast from stark black and white to something less harsh? You can buy packs of the bookmarks online, and they are well worth it even if they only help a little.

Lots of good ideas for interventions. I'd add acceleread, accelewrite. It has an app which looks good. I use the original version in school.

I pay for a tutor twice a week for my 9 year old dyslexic son. Over the summer he'll have 3 weeks off as we are away then he'll see her once a week until school starts and he'll go back to twice a week.

He loves his sessions with her so he wants to go through the summer; he is very bright and has a thirst for knowledge that school doesn't satisfy.

Yegods I am going to get her eyes tested for erlans. They did try a blue overlay at school but it didn't help so they think not.

What would a tutor do?

I am not certain, sorry, as only have second hand knowledge from friends and family. I do have a biik about lans/iIirlans. I wear lunted specs myself. Optmetrist tried out different colours and strengths.

Will pm you...

*have a book about Erlans/Irlans

Thanks x

Lots of good advice. i would recommend frequent sessions (once a week) but maybe shorter, especially if your child tires easily. My DD is having extra dyslexia tutoring over the holidays, as we're worried she will forget lots of stuff with such a big gap.

Toe by toe is good if boring and some kids really like being able to tick things off. A good tutor will work out specific strategies to encourage your daughter to read.

Overlays can be helpful and there are quite a few opticians/optometrists offering colorimetry. DD has visual stress and wears tinted specs. I was quite sceptical at first but they are helpful. There are some very expensive set ups out there but you can also do it pretty inexpensively/probably better (see for example Anglia Ruskin Eye Clinic).