What Can You Do?

• Do little but concise work: When working with your child, avoid the idea that too much work would be better. Make sure your child does not worry about the amount of work. If using a workbook, break it up into parts. With this technique, your child will not be discouraged and will complete the assigned work in time.

• Free your environment from distracting stimuli: If your child is easily affected and distracted by the visual stimuli on the work, leave an empty space for the work. It would be better to use paper. Additionally, things like highlighting lines with highlighters and taking small notes in the margins will also attract your attention. Choose things written in capital letters and space the spaces to designate separate areas.

• Underline important information or highlight it with highlighters: If your child can read a normal book but has difficulty finding important information. If so, you can highlight important information with a highlighter.

• Do additional studies: Some activities may not be sufficient for the skills your child needs to acquire. You should observe these issues well and do extra work on these areas. Guided games, parent-child activities, activities where they can find their own mistakes, computer programs and extra worksheets can be used.

• Develop reading guides: What we call a reading guide is to make your child more comfortable while reading. Here are some things to implement. For example; It should make things easier, such as understanding the main idea or being able to see different details. For this, you can give a reading paragraph by paragraph, page by page or chapter by chapter.

• Use a voice recorder: Instructions, stories and some special important lecture notes should be recorded. The process of understanding will become easier by listening to the instructions or other spoken statements over and over again. In addition, to improve his reading skills, he can silently follow the lines while listening to what is written in the book.

• Get help from technology: Tablets, electronic book readers, dictionaries, speech programs, audio books and more. Use many practitioners similar to these.

• Create daily routines: Since many children with learning disabilities will have difficulties in organizational skills, daily set routines will make their life easier.

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• Give step-by-step instructions: Introduce new or difficult information in small steps. This allows the learner to clearly see what is more important for the learner.

• Give visual and auditory information at the same time: Support verbal information with things such as a piece of paper that explains and summarizes the visual subject, headphones, etc.

• Get a blackboard: Use the blackboard to study difficult concepts.

• Use clues: Use words and materials that remind you of keywords and concepts.

• Pay attention to daily repetitions: Repetition of the previously studied topic will enable your child to make connections with new information.

• The content of the study you will do Create a list that shows: The child who has the content in hand follows the lesson more easily and achieves success more quickly. Takes more meaningful notes. Moreover, it gives your child organizational skills and the ability to manage time.

• Encourage him to use a calendar, agenda or a notebook where he can write down tasks: A place where he can write important dates, school activities, exam dates and schedule. Let him use something. Let him write his studies and school-related things in separate sections.

• Grade the worksheets from easy to difficult: The feeling of success will ensure that more work is done.

• Show a similar task as an example: Showing an example of how to plan and what is expected as a result of the task clarifies the tasks your child will do.

• Express the tasks to your child. Edit accordingly. For those who have difficulty in writing or reading, you can support them with verbal instructions while doing projects and activities, or if there is a difficulty in the verbal field, indicate that they can answer the work in writing.

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