Speech Therapy Therapies To Break The Chains Of Disabilities | Page 4

Can we help teachers help kids
with dyslexia?
• There is no set treatment for dyslexia and the best way to help is
to adjust the way reading is taught. One of these is occupational
therapy. Occupational therapy encompasses many activities
meant to help people develop reading skills. The most common
activity used is multisensory structured language education
(MLSE) which is often used with both kids and adults . Patients
can use other senses to help them recognise sounds and
syllables. One example of this is using sandpaper letters to learn
spelling or learning syllables by tapping with their fingers. As
such, they learn the same sound over and over, helping them to
remember it better .
• An alternative program is the Lindamood-Bell method. This is not
often learnt in school but in private centres instead. In a similar
way to MLSE, Lindamood-Bell breaks down learning to read in
steps. However, instead of just using other senses to learn to
read the word, the program also focuses on understanding
content. This is often in the form of imagery and associating a
certain word or phrase with a mental image .