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Here you'll find advice from parents and teachers on special needs education.

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Has anyone used the Dore method to cure dyslexia and is it worth the money

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Bananaknickers · 03/04/2007 17:31

Seems it costs £2000 per child. Have you had success. This would mean getting a bank loan out for us to do it as we are skint. If it works it would be worth it

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ChocolateTeapot · 05/04/2007 18:32

I have just found a link to the article I read if anyone wants to read it. But I can't find the letter that Cat64 is referring to.

cat64 · 05/04/2007 19:29

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UniSarah · 05/04/2007 21:16

"cure" dyslexia ? Thats a BIG claim and one Id be very sceptical of. Dyslexia isn't an ilnes, its a condition. You can help give a child coping stratagies and find good ways for them to learn things, but "cure"? might as well say hearing aids are a cure for deafness.

Hard as it seems to believe now, lots of unhappy dyslexic kids DO grow up into confident happy dyslexic adults. If it were my child I'd be looking other more affordable ways to boost his confidence and self esteem before taking out a loan to fund a gamble.

Is there something your boy enjoys doing that you can surport him in doing and getting good at. 11 is a difficult age for LOTS of reasons, but he will get older and will change.
personally at 11 I was a bit of a mess like your son and my parents were where you are now. By 17 I was confident & knew what I wanted to do for a career. It didn't require exams needed some practical training in craft skills nad is what i still do a for a living. Just dont; ask me to type acuratly, I still can;t do that.

UniSarah · 05/04/2007 21:27

sorry I realsise i missed abit-
between 11 and 17 I got very keen on cycling. cycled A LOT, was given a fair bit of freedom to do this by my parents. Spot the simiailarity to teh DORE thing -Regular exercise, motor control, vision control, concentrating on other things whilst exerciseing.

babygrand · 07/04/2007 09:13

Have just obtained the Madeleine Portwood book - am optimistic about being able to do something to help dd.

Was disturbed to read in that Sunday Times article that a large proportion of children with dyspraxia will go on to have drink/drugs problems. It just gets worse...

ChocolateGirl · 07/04/2007 14:29

Bananaknickers

Books from this publisher might also be suitable for your son:

\link{http://www.barringtonstoke.co.uk}

The topic/interest level is for older children but the reading ability required is much younger. So a twelver year old, for example, would find a subject to interest him, and need a reading age of, say, 8, to be able to read the book.

I recommend "Gameboy". Our local library stock some but not many. They occasionally come up on eBay. And Amazon.

hth

ChocolateGirl · 07/04/2007 14:30

Sorry, can't get link to work...

But at least I have mastered smileys

filthymindedvixen · 07/04/2007 15:26

bananknickers, been watching this thraead - we are also looking for the 'Holy Grail'
. Would you like to CAT me (or I could CAT you?) in order to let off steam/compare notes/ etc etc? I have a 9 year-old dswho sounds exactly as you describe your ds, even down to the audio processing problems and immaturity and having to leave Scouts beleive it or not!

sniff · 07/04/2007 15:28

we are on it at the mo even have all the books here if you want me to scan a couple of shets to let you look

TBH its not working yet and cost me £2000

ChocolateTeapot · 07/04/2007 18:18

Babygrand, glad you think the book might be some help. It was the drink/drugs bit that finally got my mother's head out of the sand from her "she will be fine when she is an adult you won't notice". I do think though that good intervention when they are young paired with finding things that they are good at and focusing on them a lot to build self esteem that the future can be quite a rosy one. Well I hope so anyway ! I've just realised that both our DDs are in Year 3, do you fancy having a chat off board ? If so CAT me and don't worry if you would rather not

babygrand · 07/04/2007 22:04

Yes, I would love to. (Haven't registered for CAT service yet, will do it tonight!) As I said before, this seems to be mainly a boy thing, so it's nice to hear of a girl having similar experiences.

swedishmum · 14/04/2007 20:18

My ds is doing Dore programme and he's better than he was last year but I don't know why - he changed schools and I trained as a dyslexia specialist teacher so I'm doing multi-sensory work with him as well. We signed up with a cynical attitude. He's certainly much more co-ordinated and fidgets far less, and his handwriting has improved as has his football and netball. He's more organised too but all of these could simply be to do with getting older. Not sure quite why though. We went into it knowing that we might well be wasting our money and we were happy to do so. (Being a teacher and a parent = over-analysing everything, poor dh!)

glyn · 12/05/2007 08:31

I have very strong feelings on this as you will see...
as an SpLD specialist teacher, I am aware of all themethods used with dyslexics.
The Dore method does not use any new theories- all the man has done (and he is a business man, don't forget) is to promote existing theories, packaged in a very expensive manner.

There has been research around for years that shows that some dyslexics have problems in the brain centred around the cerebellum. There are already books around that parents can use, showing exercises to do at home that stimulate this part of the brain- and that may eventually help with some aspects of dyslexia. This is not new.

There is no cure for dyslexia. All dyslexics need a structured phonics-based teaching programme to improve their literacy.

There are no concrete results for ths Dore porgramme, and the endorsements from ed psychs are not necessarily independent!

The other point is that the staff who administer the program have very little training, and thre are no long term studies of whether it works. It may be that the children respond to the extra focus on their problems, feel more motivated, and their parents also spend more time with them on their reading etc than they did before they started the Dore program.

What worries me most is the cost of thei treatment- if it were so good and offered a lasting "cure" wouldn't anyone who really wanted to help dyslexics want to make it available to as many people as possible for a very small fee- not thousands of pounds?

And finally, this method has not been endorsed by the BDA or any other independent dyslexia researcher.

glyn · 12/05/2007 08:36

I just wanted to add that if anyone has £2K to spend, that money would be better spent on 1:1 specialist teaching outside of school.

I amalso the mum to a dyslexic, who is now at a very good uni, so take heart and don't feel dyslexia is something that holds people back.

Loshad · 15/05/2007 22:24

banana knickers - would be much more tempted to try toe by toe - will cost you about £18 iirc, we use it in school and at home, has made a huge difference (can progess onto wordwasp when get very skilled - costs another £15-20), also have you explicity said to scouts about the dyslexia - i have ds1 mildly dyslexic, and ds3 really quite dyslexic, and for both i cornered the scout/cub leader and told them that if they gave them written stuff to read/follow that they couldn't and weren't being diffult or unco-operative and haven't had any probs on that front at all (thank god as they get enough elsewhere0

improvingslowly · 22/05/2007 18:43

Loshad - what is toe by toe? Thanks

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