Dear,

Thank you for your email, my website handles about the issues and influences of our sight, and my experiences and my research into the field of dyslexia, and I'm not a therapist as such so I cannot help you in that way.

On my introduction page, at the last topic Conclusion / Solution I have put some possibilities that you could consider:

• Vision Therapy - I don't know if it's and how it works and my experiences with reducing peripheral view is ok but it isn't natural for me, so I don't do that, I have come to like the way I am. But I'm also older now and perhaps a younger person is more flexible.
• The Gift of Dyslexia - Ronald Davis
• Body -and eye movement exercises - These focus often on the way how you see, for instance you can look to the left by turning your head, body or by turning your eyes, often someone used to look more around with their body/head/neck and not with their eyes so if someone is stressed they freeze a bit or stay to fixated so they cannot follow the text, by doing coordination exercises one might 'loosen' up. Or sometimes the interaction between the left- and right eye isn't optimal and exercises may bring more balance. (It is possible that some of these excersises are included in Visual Therapy.)
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But as I put on my site, dyslexia is very complex and it's about the interaction between seeing, hearing, and motion control, so one slight difference in one of these elements can have an effect on 'reading'. And thus there are different types of 'dyslexics'.

I would look for dyslexia-help-programs in your local area they are experienced and can test your child.

Try to find a way to work with the teachers of your kid's school to give your child some extra help. In my case when I was at school I got great help by getting notes from one of my classmates with a nice handwriting so I could copy them, because my writing is terrible. Even now when I'm typing on my notebook, I'm still not that fluent. But in school you learn so much more than just read and write and all the interaction with other kids so focus on all those other things and be mild about reading, I know there are teachers/persons out there who get a kick when the can spot a spelling mistake, never mind them, it isn't all about the details.

When I was younger I also had some special classes where they give me extra attention for reading, these classes where a few hours twice a week. I can read alright but in a more vague manner, and I sometimes skip over things, and It's still hard to read very precise technical stuff like an accountant to say 'the small letters' also reading in public is something I prefer not to do.

Note: I would suggest first of all to get the book by Professor Bob Frank: Secret Life of the Dyslexic Child: How She Thinks. How He Feels. How They Can Succeed, this will help you as a parent to better understand the issues.

Hope this helps,

kind regards,

michel