How music therapy became the key to literacy

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Erin was ready to try anything to get her 11-year-old son to learn to read. He was avoiding school at all costs, lagging behind his peers and disadvantaged by developmental dyslexia. Then, help came in an unexpected form.

A music therapist invited the Humpty Doo schoolkid to take part in a program called Art Stories.

“Ben was not very comfortable with reading and writing – he gets the letters back to front,” Erin Evans says.

“I have seen music therapy work before in different areas of health and well being, and I was grasping for any kind of assistance to get Ben to enjoy school and do some work in the classroom,” she said.

And so began a year-long journey which saw Ben not only learn to read, but take his new-found passion home with him.

“I used to not read at all, now I do a bit,” Ben says shyly.

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Don’t deny – defy dyslexia

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The day Steve Jobs died my son came home from school and asked me:

“Can I also please be dyslexic like Steve?”

Dumbfounded I stared at him as he rambled on about Steve Jobs, about Mac and how “awesome” it was.

Technological icon Steve Jobs left behind a silver bitten apple, a legacy of hard work and most importantly a realisation that learning differences are a gift – not a stigma.

The problem

Nobody truly knows the origins of learning differences. The spectrum is wide and deep, ranging from low attention span, weak memory, speech problems, auditory issues, literacy and numeracy challenges, vestibular and cognitive development and social interaction to behaviour issues this wide umbrella is widening at a startling pace and deepening at an alarming rate. Genetics, diet, environment, academic pressures and competition are all contributing to this increase. Yet the most resonating factor is denial from parents.

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Student, 17, has designs on dyslexic help

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A TRELECH student, who could soon be a patented inventor thanks to an idea inspired by her sister, is looking for help to market her design.

Georgina Nichol-James, 17, of Caerwenog, Trelech, has designed a special educational toy, named the named X-ray i, designed to help dyslexic children improve their reading.

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Volunteer program 
offers free tutoring for dyslexia

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Brilla and Miller have started the Lake Superior tutoring Center for Dyslexic Children and Adults, Inc. (LSTC) which will provide evaluations to identify dyslexia and offer a tutoring service based on the Barton method. LSTC is available for students residing in Ashland, Bayfield and Douglas counties in Wisconsin, at no charge and without discrimination.

Miller said the system was designed for parents to use to tutor their own children and is very user friendly.

“With each new level Monica’s son attains, I learn the next level,” she said. “The manual has a complete script to work from and video training to demonstrate each lesson.”

Brilla said LSTC has three goals, to educate communities by providing information, to offer one-on-one tutoring to children or adults, and to reach out to schools and organize volunteer programs.

“We need students, volunteers and donations,” said Brilla. “We are reaching out to area service organizations as well. Eventually we want to have a permanent site and for now we are hoping to use the school library or other appropriate sites.”

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Teachers gain a new ability to help

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One teacher admits she could use help to deal with the children in her classes with extra needs. More importantly, she would like some strategies to try once they have been identified.

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For Dr Woods this is a pleasing moment. She is part of a team, led by Professor Patrick Griffin, that has been trialling the Abilities Based Learning and Education Support (ABLES) research project in 250 Victorian schools for more than five years. This year the program is being rolled out in all state schools.

The project began about eight years ago when researchers in the Assessment Research Centre of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education decided the best way to help children with disabilities was to provide teachers with better materials and advice to create individual learning plans.

An online program was developed that allows teachers to record observations about children and place them on a developmental path.

“It helps a teacher recognise what they are seeing from the child’s behaviour. It points them to what the child can do and is ready to do next,” says Dr Woods. “We are taking the knowledge special education teachers have when they look at these kids and giving it to other teachers.”

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Dyslexia Impacts Math

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According to an article entitled, The Impact of Dyslexia on Math” by Rosalind W. Rothman, Ed.D., Director, Language and Learning Associates & Claire Lavin, Ph.D., Professor, College of New Rochelle, “The mastery of the symbolic language of mathematics involves many verbal cognitive processes that can be affected by dyslexia. Ignoring the impact of dyslexia on the mastery of mathematics can hamper a child’s progress in school and in life.”

Children with dyslexia may need tutoring and accommodations in Math as well as Reading, Writing, and Spelling.

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