Dyslexia
10 Dyslexia Friendly Tips for working at home
- Keep the working area clear and organised.
- Use pastel coloured paper.
- Have useful resources ready, a reading ruler, a word spacer, a whiteboard and coloured pen.
- Use the night light setting on your laptop or device to adjust the screen colour/brightness.
- Use a multi sensory approach – visuals, models, resources, sand, magnetic letters or video clips etc.
- Try multi sensory learning – using two or more senses during learning such as using real objects, building models, drawing a picture before writing.
- Make a word bank/sheet to refer to of words that you might need for a piece of work before starting the activity. Or use Twinkl to find a word mat to print and use.
- Break instructions into simple steps – one at a time.
- Give plenty of thinking time.
- To support memory use mind maps, drawing pictures of ideas, taking note or the recording function on a ipad if writing to help remember what is being written.