In the 1st grade, my oldest was diagnosed with auditory dyslexia and we use a combination of earobics, games and special books to get her reading on track. This was all suggested by the educational psychologist who did the diagnosis. My daughter got through most of the earobics and I would reward her for each 10 minutes she worked at it.
The games were:
She would close her eyes and I would make a noise somewhere in the room. She would have to identify the noise and where I was.
We would start with a word like "it" and come up with all the words you could make from it (sit, fit, bit, etc). We would take turns.
We would play the picnic game: "I'm going to a picnic and I'm going to bring ____." You start with the first item beginning with A, then B, etc. With each item you have to recite all the items before it (works on memory). We would make the things very silly.
I would give her a 2 step (then later 3, etc) set of instructions for silly things to do (stand on one foot and sing the abc song). Then she would give me a set.
I would ask her to repeat all instructions I gave her.
The books we used were Bob Books. They are in a box and are very short, and have similar sounds in them to help the child learn the differences between similar sounding letters.
I do not know what worked the best but she went from behind her peers in the 1st grade to reading at the 12th grade level at the age of 10. She still can't remember the steps if I give her more than a 2-3 step set of directions though.
vickie39139.5663541667Paid more than for it. My four year old seems bored after only a week and the darn thing doesn't have much variety to it.
anyone btdt?