[Trombone-l] dyslexic students

[Walter Barrett]

I would think that it would depend on just how the dyslexia manifests  
itself. Does the student confuse letters within words, swap around  
letters, or just can't process the visual input at all? Is there an  
actual diagnosis of dyslexia, or just a seat-of-the-pants guess?

I had a student many years ago who couldn't process the visual input  
at all. He played really well by ear, but never really got too good at  
reading music. One thing that helped with him was to write out stuff  
for him on that easy big note staff paper, so that it was maybe twice  
as big as normal. We also enlarged his band music on a copy machine.  
It helped a bit, maybe because the larger size print got more neurons  
involved in the processing?

You might want to talk with a remedial reading teacher, or a special  
ed teacher, and get some ideas on strategies from them.

On Apr 21, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Steve Gamble wrote:

> Hi All,
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> What have any of you used as a guide for teaching dyslexic students?
> Thanks!
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> Steve Gamble, Librarian
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Walter Barrett

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