Teaching Russian to a Dyslexic student

[Alina Israeli]

>Dear Laura
>
>I have never taught Russian to a dyslexic student, but I have taught German
>to dyslexics in my previous job as a secondary school teacher. One thing
>that
>really seemed to work was placing transparent coloured paper over texts
>(blue, green or purple seemed to work best); I don't know why, but the
>pupils
>consequently found it much easier to read the texts. Another  student I
>had used
>to wear glasses with green lenses, which had much the same  effect.

Yes, in Australia years ago they introduced color glasses as a treatement
of dyslexia, different people were prescribed different colors. Somehow it
never caught on in the US.

__________________________
 Alina Israeli
 LFS, American University
 4400 Mass. Ave., NW
 Washington, DC 20016

 phone:    (202) 885-2387
 fax:      (202) 885-1076 

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