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Mind Games Pack -Visual Learning Programme for Dyslexic Children
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MIND GAMES is
a visual learning programme for students aged from 7 to adulthood. It offers
life long learning strategies to help students succeed at the all important
day to day things that most of us take for granted in life. These include
spelling, the ability to read, organisational skills, increased short term
memory, auditory skills and increased self confidence. A computer is not
necessary, just a CD player or cassette player; as you start to learn the
system even they are not necessary.
Mind Games consists of two CD’s or cassettes which guide you through
the two books, one for words one for numbers. It can be used by the student
without assistance because it is not necessary to be able to read to use
the system. An even better way is for the student to be assisted by a parent
or friend. Mind Games is also being used in schools with the books and CD’s
supplemented by some classroom-specific items. Although the programme can
be completed in 12 one hour sessions each experience with Mind Games can
be as long or as short as you like. Mind Games is designed to be fun, not
hard work, but there has to be a desire to learn if the best results are
to be obtained. All of the tests show that this desire can be increased
by the support of parents or teachers, and the results are even better when
they are involved.
Mind Games is based on a long-established, well understood principle, that
of word association. It provides a method of creating a visual image for
each letter of the alphabet and for each number. Once these images are learnt
they are stored in 'files' and used to create bigger images or stories to
enable the student to spell any word or recall times tables, phone numbers
etc. Dyslexics can see and remember images but may not have the same ability
with words or numbers. This is what Mind Games addresses. Every person with
dyslexia or related conditions is affected differently and one benefit of
Mind Games is that you can use all or part of the programme depending on
your learning objective. The pack enables the basics of the concept to be
learnt and extending that learning into a life-long strategy can be facilitated
by regular use of the principles in everyday life or by the teacher's extended
use of Mind Games. We are also working on the 'advanced' programme which
should be available in the first half of 2004.
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