FAO Head of Special Education

What is the most effective way to increase literacy skills, visual and auditory recall, sequencing,
and organisational ability for dyslexic students?

Part of the task of helping dyslexic students to overcome their difficulties involves stimulating recall ability while at the same time developing organisational and sequencing skills.

And fortunately, both for those of us who teach dyslexic students and for the students themselves, this stimulation and development can be enhanced enormously through the playing of a range of games specifically selected for this purpose.

The games that particularly help in this regard are ones that consist of memory activities involving both visual and auditory recall and those that involve organising items into groups.

What’s more, if the games can relate to the background reasons behind the dyslexic student’s problems then the games become more personal and more productive for those taking part.

This is the object of the games in the Dyslexia Games Manual: to encourage activity in that part of the brain that is developed by using and stretching the different memory functions of the brain.

Not every game in this resource will be relevant to every student. If the individual can do a game straight off then one can give praise and indeed return to it when the individual is struggling with a different aspect of dyslexia.

Indeed, given that each dyslexic student is different, their successes and failures will point to their different strengths and weaknesses.

The games are divided into six groups – memory games (visual and auditory – recall and discrimination), organisational skills (sequencing, orientation and categorisation), key words practice, word building, story building, and literacy skills revision.

To see a sample of this resource please email us at msl@schools.co.uk

You can also find more information on our website.

The resource is available as a download for £24.99 (NZD 58.23).

Payment is required in Pounds Sterling and can be made through the website by clicking here.

If you then click on the International option you can pay by credit card, debit card or Paypal.