Building Your Dyslexic Child's Confidence in Reading with Simple Word Tools

Join us for this useful and inspiring episode about how to build reading confidence for your dyslexic child with a tool called Simple Word Books for decoding simple words. Cigdem has a passion for helping children and it shows in her depth of work and beautiful resources. Want more on building your child's self-esteem? Join our 8-Week Parenting Course here: CLICK TO REGISTER. About Simplewordbooks.com and Cigdem's story: From a very early age, my son had a passion for books. Unfortunately, reading did not come naturally to him. In 2015, at age six, he was diagnosed with Dyslexia. With training, he soon began reading simple words and sentences. One night, he picked up Hop on Pop by Dr. Seuss. He read the entire 160+ words over and over, then asked for a chapter book. I googled, talked to experts, teachers, tutors and parents to find low-level/high-interest books. Others were in search of these books, too, but they did not exist. So I began to write for my son; he began to read. And Project Simple Words was born. In "Overcoming Dyslexia", Sally Shaywitz, M.D., professor in Yale University School of Medicine and Co-Director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, talks about many children whose childhood joys were extinguished by dyslexia. The story of Caitlyn's seventh birthday party Shaywitz tells in her book is the one I will always remember. " All through the party, Caitlyn kept asking "When do I get to blow my candles out?" … [her mom] entered with a cake.. Caitlyn ran over to the table, climbed up on a chair, and bent over the cake. She closed her eyes tightly, concentrated very hard, and then blew out all the candles. Then she ran up the stairs to her bedroom and closed the door. [Her mom] found Caitlyn on her bed with her favorite storybook, Good Night Moon, on her lap. Tears streamed down her face. "You said I would get any wish I wanted, but you were wrong. My wish didn't come true." She still could not read any of the words on the page." Caitlyn's story touched my heart and gave me the strength to bring Simple Words Books™ to life. Thank you, Dr. Shaywitz for sharing it.

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Building Your Dyslexic Child's Confidence in Reading with Simple Word Tools is an episode from The Dyslexia Quest podcast by Elisheva Schwartz.

This episode is 50:14 long.

This episode was published on Mar 21, 2019.

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