| Most of the time you can trust the diagnosing dyslexia | | | | condition, then that child will have difficulties with certain |
| and dyslexia treatment of your children to skilled | | | | parts of the game. An adult observer who knows the |
| teachers in your local education system. Dyslexia in | | | | rules from reading the handbook can quickly see, and |
| children is now routinely screened for and detected. | | | | make note of, the specific problem area. Then armed |
| But every parent wants to help his or her kids do | | | | with the info a specialist can be consulted. |
| better in school. | | | | Also there are games available that help treat dyslexia |
| And many parents feel that the education of their | | | | symptoms in children. Games have been developed |
| children is too important to pass off to the teachers | | | | using proven methods to help dyslexic children work |
| and forget about. If you have a child with dyslexia or a | | | | around and overcome their problems. Trained |
| child who is having difficulty in reading you want to help. | | | | specialists have incorporated these methods and |
| You want to get involved in homework, interact with | | | | techniques into games that children find to be both |
| your child and understand how the child is progressing. | | | | entertaining and fun. |
| Fortunately there are a variety of tools available to | | | | That makes the games easy to teach the children and |
| help you in this. | | | | play with. This, as well as being highly effective in |
| First off, there is a line of computer games used in the | | | | teaching useful skills and ways to overcome dyslexia |
| diagnosis of dyslexia in children that you might want to | | | | symptoms. |
| look into. There is a whole series of such games | | | | These games are easy to obtain over the Internet. |
| developed by The Diagnostic Gaming Company, with | | | | You can download them and print out the parts that |
| different games used for different ages and stages of | | | | need to be printed out. Then you read over the |
| development of the children they are designed to test. | | | | instructions and start playing the games with your |
| Qualified specialists have participated in the design and | | | | children. For many games the whole thing can be |
| testing of these games, to make them useful tools in | | | | downloaded, printed out and started playing within |
| early dyslexia screening and testing. | | | | minutes. |
| It ends up being just some fun games for the children | | | | For more information on dyslexia in children, the |
| to play. They usually have no idea that there is some | | | | diagnosis of dyslexia and reading games to help your |
| kind of test involved. A parent or teacher reads the | | | | child read, just follow the links below... |
| manual first, understands what is supposed to happen | | | | [By the way, if you have a dyslexic child, have YOU |
| and can just unobtrusively watch while the children | | | | ever been tested for dyslexia? There's a genetic link |
| play. Parts of the games are designed to test for | | | | you know... it runs in families. The links below will also |
| dyslexia symptoms. | | | | take you to sources for adult dyslexia testing... |
| If a child has a potential problem with some dyslexic | | | | |