Hey! My husband is dyslexic too! He's worked very hard to overcome it and seemed to do better after playing "The Junior Phonics Game" with our son a few years ago. For some reason it seemed to really click with him!
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If it helped him it means that he is not dyslexic. It means that he cannot learn to read with the idiotic "look-and-say" "whole-word" method. He is perfectly normal.
"look-and-say" "whole-word" method is more fit for Chinese or Egyptian ideograms. Western alphabet which is designed to be phonetic and is one of the reasons why Western culture is superior to the Far East.
"look-and-say" "whole-word" method is the MAIN reason why Johnny can't read.
Wow. Well our 17 year old managed to take the ASVAB for the ARMY. We don't have his scores yet, but hopefully he's done well enough to get in after graduation. He's really excited about joining up - I hope he can learn some skills while enlisted so that he'll have a better shot at finding a good job when he gets out. College is not an option with this one.... now the other two - one wants to go to the NAVY and the other the Air Force. I guess we'll just be a family of service members.