What have you found effective for dyslexia?

[KingscoteStaff]

I have 3 ‘profoundly’ dyslexic children coming into my Year 6 class in September.

In our handover, their Year 5 teacher was very down about all of their progress in Reading, Writing and SPAG.

So what actually works? Coloured overlays? Remedial phonics? Whole word recognition? Laptop? Reading Recovery? Handwriting groups? Relearning high frequency words? Small motor skills/OT groups?

To make it worse, I feel that I failed with a dyslexic girl this year - I know there isn’t a magic bullet, but I’m sure I could have done more.

@imip I agree parents of these children could apply for an EHCP but experience tells me it wouldn't bring EP input. Only some of our family of schools HLN children get EP involvement and it's one visit per term at best. It's awful how far services have been cut and the rise in tribunals is no surprise.

They would, user. They could lean on IPSEA or SOSSEN for support. Can they demonstrate a graduated approach has been used? Sometimes LA’s tell schools what can and can’t be done, but that’s not the law, it’s only policy.

Great TES podcast with a leading expert recently - www.tes.com/news/listen-what-teachers-need-know-about-dyslexia

coloured overlays are a huge con. They can cut down on visual stress, but the colour itself doesn't matter.

short texts

insisting on reading every lesson

small numbers of spellings

hand writing practice

large clear font

no excuses

avoid laptops etc.