tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post3345489531278994287..comments2024-01-04T15:23:05.055+08:00Comments on Luqman's Dyslexia Blog: UnlearnLuqman Michelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-31093666186252782992019-12-26T14:34:09.088+08:002019-12-26T14:34:09.088+08:00This is one of my first few articles in this blog....This is one of my first few articles in this blog. Soon, I decided not to use the word dyslexia as it made no sense to call all kids who could not read as dyslexic. Most of them are instructional casualties.Luqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-46084287410475294942019-09-12T05:31:47.542+08:002019-09-12T05:31:47.542+08:00Thank you for your comment and your recommendation...Thank you for your comment and your recommendation, Joice. I will listen to the video suggested in the next few days.<br />Wish you well.Luqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-78102686584529351412019-09-03T17:57:34.828+08:002019-09-03T17:57:34.828+08:00Dear Mr. Luqman Michel: Thanks so much for your pe...Dear Mr. Luqman Michel: Thanks so much for your perspective. It does help!! And, it's really important to teach the correct sounds of the letters, especially to young children.<br /><br />As for certain sounds of the letters, sight words/high-frequency words, extension spellings and suffixes, we do have reliable rules. Of course, some will not fit into them and that's why they are called rule-breakers. Yes, some can be just crazy, but sure they are interesting to learn.<br /><br />I came across this wonderful site that has a practical, multi-sensory approach, great ideas and teaching resources that will be helpful to you and your learners: https://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/all-about-reading/<br /><br />Please don't miss this video of Ms. Marie Rippel: https://www.allaboutlearningpress.com/about<br /><br />Thank you, and all the best!!<br /><br />JoiceAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-36662515188869852492011-03-22T06:05:35.273+08:002011-03-22T06:05:35.273+08:00Thank you Superkate's mum for your comment. Un...Thank you Superkate's mum for your comment. Unfortunately I have not seen a child with auditory closure.Knowing when a child shuts down and helping the child to overcome that particular problem is paramount.Luqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-64357888295025700472011-03-19T06:02:26.604+08:002011-03-19T06:02:26.604+08:00Hi,
My daughter is certainly one of the children y...Hi,<br />My daughter is certainly one of the children you describe. I noticed her 'shut down' for the 1st time when she went into year 1. On the first day of school she met her new teacher who was in a rush. The teacher fired several questions at Kate very rapidly and Kate's eyes began to fixate and glaze over.<br />I have seen her shut down in class many times since. Kate was taught the alphabet correctly, with the appropriate voiced and voiceless sounds. The problem for her was blending the sounds together due to issues with auditory closure. She could not identify words if they were broken down, partially spoken,spoken with an accent, or spoken with the epmphasis on the wrong syllable.<br />What a varied and complex condition dyslexia is.superkate'smumhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00795266469763739392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-16049328158293922292010-09-24T18:56:54.097+08:002010-09-24T18:56:54.097+08:00As for spelling just let it take its course. You w...As for spelling just let it take its course. You will see later on in my blog how I teach my dyslexic students and you may apply the same method with your son. Just tell him that all dyslexic children are logical thinking children and that is why they find it difficult to learn to spell in English. Tell him that he finds it difficult because it is not a logical way of spelling.Read this comment to him. Tell him that it is not he who is the problem but the English language is. You may also read some articles from my other site to your son. It is at :<br />http://www.excellent-student.com<br /><br />I have been spending most of my time here and have almost forgotten the other blog. I'll write more articles there as well.Luqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-73214976100981131992010-09-24T18:48:37.132+08:002010-09-24T18:48:37.132+08:00Every child that I know likes to be read to. You a...Every child that I know likes to be read to. You are lucky that he reads by himself but get him to read to you too. I am sure you are a busy lady but you can ask him to read to you while you are cooking or doing some house chores.He will enjoy reading to you while you cook or even while you are lying down. Ask him to read to you while you try taking a nap. He may enjoy that and you will also be able to correct him. Why not get him to read while you drive him to school or any where else?<br />You should try and read to him daily. I remember a lot of stories my mum used to read to me when I was a little boy (though this was in Tamil.)<br /><br />When you read to your son, you can read words that are above his reading level. Even if he does not understand it it does not matter as it will lie dormant somewhere in his head and pop up later.Luqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-8016143127965002072010-09-20T10:41:04.148+08:002010-09-20T10:41:04.148+08:00bit,
Your comments are so correct and from heart ....bit,<br />Your comments are so correct and from heart . <br /><br />I can understand it very well becoz its the same way my son works . <br /><br />And from what you said I can see there will be days when the sun will be brighter . <br /><br />Luqman, <br /><br />Thanks for the piece of advice . I had somewhat given up reading to my son becoz nowadays he reads by himself . Yet I was confused how I will correct the words he reads wrongly . <br />Yesterday I told him that I will read for him also after I read for his sister .Usually he reads by himself during this time . Even though at first he said there is no need, when the time came he was ready with a book from our library which he hasn't read .<br /><br />Thanks for giving a new start .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-54830489013334747772010-09-18T17:12:14.441+08:002010-09-18T17:12:14.441+08:00Hi Luqman ,
Thanks for your comment on my blog ....Hi Luqman , <br /><br />Thanks for your comment on my blog . I was going thru your blog . And thanks for speaking from the side of the parent . <br /><br />My son is in fourth grade . He is finding it very difficult with spelling . Especially now that they have started Geo and history in full swing it is almost impossible to teach him to spell all those words .<br /><br />As he takes resource help from school they may not cut his marks and he scores 90% or above almost always . Or the least 80. <br /><br />But he seems to be very worried when he scores very less for dictations . And they have surprise dictations almost every day . No matter how much I play it down in front of him I am concerned how it will affect his confidence. <br /><br />Other than the spelling problem we have fared well since he was diagnosed . He is taking spelling lessons from the resource for his level and I think he needs a few more years wrt spelling. <br /><br />Can you guide me on what stand I should take ?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-67940258133201026612010-02-20T12:00:34.625+08:002010-02-20T12:00:34.625+08:00Yes, computer are very helpful for a person with d...Yes, computer are very helpful for a person with dyslexia.<br />I would like you to share more with me so that we may help many parents with dyslexic children, E-mail me if you don't mind.Luqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-53895175491676811862010-02-19T16:22:48.964+08:002010-02-19T16:22:48.964+08:00Time seem to help. Things improved but slowly. My ...Time seem to help. Things improved but slowly. My spelling improved little by little. Why or how I am not sure. I just kept on tying. <br /><br />It was not repletion. That did not work I learned in school the more I repeated a spelling list the worse my spelling became. If I did not study the spelling lists given I could eek out a passing mark. When I practiced the list a few times I failed. If I put in a real effort I would normally get 20%. I eventually refused to study spelling at all.<br /><br />Technology has made a world of a difference. When I had a spell checker I found that a majority of my words were spelled correctly. I no longer had to examine each and every word. Incredible! was my response and then I could place attention on the words that I misspelled. I was finally able to see the errors. Spelling improve very rapidly for a while. Spell checkers gave me the confidence to write. Communications, completeness of thought, and the transfer of information became the issue.<br /><br />Yes there are days. Days when I just cannot spell if my life depends on it. I before e or e before i remains a issue. There are words like function that I invariably spell wrong. I don’t know why but I seem to leave out the n. But I know that I do it and so I have to go back and add the n after I complete the word.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08591959695850955775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-68902769851110240382010-02-19T15:42:27.830+08:002010-02-19T15:42:27.830+08:00But now when you write, you do all the spelling yo...But now when you write, you do all the spelling yourself? You've learned all the spelling through repetition, but do you still have to put a lot of thought into your spelling? <br /><br />Are there, perhaps, some days when you want to write a simple letter, and you just can't remember if you "received" something or "recieved" it?<br /><br />For the longest time I was spelling airport as aeroport...(but that's because I speak French - and it's completely unrelated)Hakim Bin Luqmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13026334710161459952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-72448369551571748692010-02-19T14:27:06.872+08:002010-02-19T14:27:06.872+08:00Bad habits. How about a few examples
C sounds l...Bad habits. How about a few examples <br /><br />C sounds lick the c in cat. K sounds like k in kit. Qu sounds like k in quit.<br />So when someone says spell cut I might spell it as cut, kut, quut.<br />I remember one time having to spell upon. Said as u.pon’ but people had several other pronunciations such as up.on’ or often au.pon’. What did I come up with<br /> Apon as in appreciation.<br />Eighpon as in eight<br />Aupon as in August<br />Opon as in Ontario<br /> <br />And there were a few others. My hearing was just fine back then but the rules where confusing and as clear as sh sounds like sh in shush, therefore sure is spelled shure, fiction is spelled fikshon, fission should be spelled fishun, action is therefore spelled akshon. There where rules and exception, rules to the exception with exceptions which lead to kaunfuseshun. Wouldn’t you say that it was very straight four word.<br /><br />Then came the sounding out or reading the written word. English is strait forward easy to read, so straight forward. For example I found phoenix straight forward, “ I fo und fo en x stra ig ht fo r word.” The knight exercised chivalry. “The k nigh t ex cer sisd chi val ree.” But that is a different topic (to pic). <br /><br />When it came to selling I was forced to make my own rules just to survive c as in cat was c. So toolcit , and loc, care, and corc. Silent letters were dropped, nife, noledge, sychology and nite. Double letters became single, bokeper instead of bookkeeper, uf instead of off, suport instead of support, adres instead of address, fite instead of fight and acounting instead of accounting. Ph and f sounds like f in fish. So please visit your fusishon. <br /><br />What happened was from grade 3 through grade 11 I never received any comments on anything other then “you should know how to spell that”, “do something about your spelling,” “buy a dictionary,” “don’t you know how do use a dictionary?” “look up the words you are not sure of in the dictionary.” Truth is, there was not one word in the English language other then “I” that I was confident of. Please try looking up the above words in the dictionary, please do. I use a dictionary a lot and spent more time looking up words then I spent researching and writing a paper. If I could not spell the word I had to leave it misspelled.<br /><br />I took school serious, I was determined to get away from that town and all that frustrated me. I became one tough and unsatisfied customer of the school system.<br /><br />I worked harder then anyone else in my classes. The ramification of the single minded emphases on spelling was that though I wrote a lot trying to improve my skills my writing was an absolute disaster. How would I know? The teacher would say write a paragraph. Since spelling was their only concern, I must have done the exercise correctly. No comments on punctuation, ergo my punctuation is good. No comment of sentence structure therefore sentence structure is fine. The system contributed to my functional illiteracy. Teachers talk to each other and often compound the mistakes without breaking a cycle. <br /><br />After grade 11 I left school for a couple years and when I returned I was in a different school in another city. Wow, I was informed and raked for having bad punctuation and poor spelling. I did not know how to right a sentence; I normally got subject and predicate backward, “A car is what I drive.” “Work is where I am going.” I could not write a parallel sentence. My arguments were not constructed correctly; my paper was a stream of sensuousness. In truth I was unable to communicate through writing. My contempt for English, English teachers and all things English grew without bounds.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08591959695850955775noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-20256393369162177452010-02-18T20:07:08.694+08:002010-02-18T20:07:08.694+08:00This phoenix seems to be a particular system of te...This <i>phoenix</i> seems to be a particular system of teaching phonetics, as I gather from my cursory search on Google. By bad habits, you mean that the phoenix system didn't teach the proper sounds for all the letters?Hakim Bin Luqmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13026334710161459952noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-92113394397711380972010-02-18T17:57:16.171+08:002010-02-18T17:57:16.171+08:00Thank you for your very valuable comment.Thank you for your very valuable comment.Luqman Michelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13089314934834818707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2929940323242620649.post-2939434002477904632010-02-18T15:04:32.546+08:002010-02-18T15:04:32.546+08:00Here, here! Oh mygosh and I thought it was only me...Here, here! Oh mygosh and I thought it was only me. As a kid I was taught some of those bad habits. When I entered school I was a bright and very enthusiastic student. My enthusiasm waned very rapidly because of the language issues. I felt that I really wanted to do well and had no ware to turn. My parents where some of those that believed that their role as educators ended with the enrolment in elementary school. I kept on trying and when I tried to change my way of thinking I had a sense that part of my head went numb. After a few years of doing very poorly, about grade 5 or 6, I was sent to a special class. Initially they did a test of my language skills. Then they gave me a month or two of phoenix. They then tested my language skills again, the results were worse then when I started. I was accused of trying to sabotage their efforts. When I insisted this was wrong they sent me out to have my hearing tested. I have become a real disbeliever in the teaching of phoenix and yet I see its purpose. <br /><br />You are so right, it needs to be taught correctly, it has a purpose but there are pit falls. I still have a problem with words that end in the “shun”. I don’t here the difference in the ending of such words as fashion, tuition and fusion. But I find they are still at it, teaching phoenix. To quote your favourite Albert Einstein “the definition of insanity is to do the same experiment again and again expecting a different result.” To those that teach phoenix think about what you are teaching, I don’t know how else to say it.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08591959695850955775noreply@blogger.com