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READING AND IQ
If your pupil is in school and is reading badly, you can probably get a reading level from the school. If he is an adult and reading badly enough to want to go through tutoring, you probably don't have to do a reading test, unless you want a nice before-and-after showing for your efforts.For an I.Q. test, a child in real trouble in school may already already have had one. If not, you're entitled to ask for it. You don't need an exact score, just an indication that the student is at least average or above in intelligence. If he is somewhat slow, his reading problems may be due to something other than dyslexia.
Here are two basic diagnostic test-
Misspelled Homophones and Tactile Localization.
Tell your pupil that some of the "words" he sees in the following bunch actually sound like real words, although they would be spelled differently. Have him look down a column - without reading them aloud - and have him point to any he thinks would be real words. When he points to one, then have him pronounce what he thinks it would be. You do this because otherwise you may miss some of his mistakes. For instance, if he looks at "sed" and says that would be a real word, you will think he has it right. But if he tells you that it would say "seed" you know it is a mistake. Then go on to the next column until he has done them all. He should be able to do this without more than one mistake.
| zam | lep | crope | bete | mord |
| sed | rool | peze | frire | blone |
| baik | calp | hib | masp | thoe |
| vust | praid | blut | kern | crasp |
2. TACTILE LOCALIZATION TEST
This is a test for the Corpus Callosum. If you touch someone lightly on the inside of his fingers with his hand behind his back (where he can't see what you do), and then you ask him to show you on the other hand where he was touched, that information has to goes through the Corpus Callosum.
The Corpus Callosum is fully matured by about ten
years old, so no adult should make more than one or two mistakes on this. Here is how you do the test:Have a child's paint brush ready for light touching. Imagine the finger broken into three sections called "pads" separated by the joints. The three sections are the fleshy parts of the finger. You will touch either the far pad (fingerprint area) or the near pad next to his palm (never the middle one.)
Have your friend hold out both his hands, palms up, fingers spread out, one in front of him and one behind. Explain that you will be touching the fingers on the hand behind him where he can't see it. He is to point with his thumb on his front hand to where you touched him. Hold out your own hand, touch one of your fingers, and ask him where he would point on his own hand. Do this with several spots on both the inside and the outside joints of your fingers until you know he has the idea and never tries to touch that middle joint. Warn him that when you have touched the hand behind him, he is NOT to wiggle those fingers at all.
Touch him twice on each location on each finger, skipping around, of course, making a total of 16 touches, four to a finger, on each hand. Make sure your touches are light and quick! Make a diagram of the hands, and mark the spots where you touched him. If he identified it right, mark a 0 and mark a X to the wrong spots. If he makes three or more errors, his Corpus Callosum is not transferring information from one hemisphere to the other quickly and accurately.
If you find someone with reading problems who is intelligent, makes mistakes on the Misspelled Homophones and blows the Tactile Localization test, you are as sure as you are going to get in this world that you are looking at dyslexia.
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