need the Reading from Scratch
material available by clicking
here or calling 1-888-848-6243 in the U.S. and Canada,
or 1-603-621-7612 from anywhere else. The package costs
$153 and includes:
- 2 little
pocket radio/recorder earphones. Example: Radio Shack Catalogue
- 3 RfS
- a set
of magnetic lower case plastic letters
RfS teaching material
will also need:
- a couple
of music tapes of your choice
piece of cardboard,
roughly 6x9 inches, or a pair of glasses with the right
lens removed and the left one covered inside with masking
A word of warning! Signals criss-cross
in the brain. If you want something to go into the left hemisphere,
you have to feed it into the right side of the head. The taped
words must go into the RIGHT ear and the music in the LEFT
Another word of warning. This
kind of remediation requires a lesson every school day, just
like the rest of schooling. You can't learn to play the piano
by taking one lesson a week and hoping for the best. You have
to DO it and DO it, over and over until your muscles learn.
Changing the way the brain operates also requires a year of
consistent practice. Don't start if you plan to be halfhearted.
You will only disappoint yourself and your pupil.
And one last word of warning:
If you plan to teach, read the material over before you start
and FOLLOW IT TO THE LETTER. Don't improvise, and above all,
don't change the order in which the lessons are presented.
You can go through it quickly if your pupil has only a mild
case of dyslexia, but DONT SKIP ANYTHING!
EL in Your Lessons
to Hold Cardboard