I have an adult friend who has dyslexia. While they have been pretty successful, they are now in a position where they write more and it is effecting their work. The dyslexia was diagnosed later in life so they've never gotten "help" for it. What kind of resources/books/tutors are out there for this problem? My friend is feeling very lost.
Susan Barton is an expert in dyslexia.. http://www.dys-add.com/
I have dyslexia and so does my 8 yr old son. I tutor my son using Susan Barton's tutoring program, and she has made herself accessable to me. If I can help in any other way, message me. :)
There is a gal on here who is dyslexic. Hopefully she will come on and help you.
I too have a dyslexic friend and she is very careful about what she does. She has her daughter and husband help her alot. And if they are not around, she either does not do any function that requires her to fill out paperwork or read anything, or she'll call one of us who knows her condition, if it is important, to come and help her. She is very adept at hiding it.
There is a ton of info out there-I found this-hope it helps!
A little trick that helps me is a colored background, it helps me focus more on the words and they swim around less, also less of letter/word switching happens. It seems that not one color works for everyone with dyslexia so I had to play around till I found which color background worked best for me. I have found light blue is that color.
On the computer I change the background on the word document to a light blue.
When reading I have a colored overhead transparent that I can put over the book/paper work. I obtained it at a ADD/ADHD/Dyslexic convention years ago.
The book that has helped me the most is The Dyslexic Scholar. It is geared towards helping a child succeed in the school system but the last part of the book has great help for being an adult with dyslexic. It also lays out helpful ways to be the best that you can be. Also finding a support group can really really help! This book also goes about telling how to find one that will help you the most, and how to get the most out of it.
Other books (helpful hints, succes stories):
Time Management for Unmanagable People by Ann McGee Cooper
Susan's Story by Susan Hampshire
You Don't Outgrow It by Marnell Hayes
Reversals by Eileen Simpson
Succeeding Against the Odds: Strategies and Insights from the Learning Disabled by Sally L. Smith
Unlike the poster below, I do not hide that I am dyslexic. I have found ways that work for me to function. At work I have to fill out an event report for every event, what I have asked is if the event report be printed on colored paper (pastels work well for me) and I can fill it out without asking for help reading or writing. Sure I mispell some thing, and it takes me longer to read/write but I do the best that I can. I also am incharge of keep inventory, so I have created a sheet that is easy for me to use once again copied on colored paper to work from/with. You can never be rid of dyslexia BUT you can find ways to function. It just takes time and the person has to want to spend the time to figure out and make the changes.
Here is a fun list of Famous Dyslexics:
Agatha Christie
Leonardo da Vinci
Michelangelo
Tom Cruise
Whoopi Goldberg
Chr
Nelson Rockerfeller
General George Patton
Dr. Harvey Cushing
Loretta Young
Nolan Ryan
Winston Churchill
Also here are a few that had a disability of some sort:
Charles Darwin
Albert Einstein
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Abbott Lawrence Lowell
Saarinen
I like looking through that list as a reminder that you can succed even with a disability, you just have to keep at it and figure out what works best for you.
