Activities for people with dyslexia

If you work with people with dyslexia, here is a selection of activities to improve cognitive stimulation interventions for people with dyslexia.

In this article, you’ll find a selection of five exercises for working on dyslexia, a learning disorder that affects between 5% and 15% of the world’s population.

Take a look and discover new activities for working on dyslexia!

Activities for working on dyslexia

1. Which One Exists?

Which One Exists? is an activity for children focused on working on their discrimination skills.

What it involves

With this worksheet, young users must be able to identify which word in a group of words actually exists.

What the activity works on

This activity trains discrimination, as children have to read and think carefully about each letter and its position.

Activity levels

This NeuronUP worksheet has five difficulty levels that become progressively harder: basic, easy, medium, hard, and advanced.

Format and language

This activity for children is available in both digital and paper format for professionals and users who use NeuronUP in Spanish.

Other versions of the activity

Which One Exists? has an adult version called Visual Discrimination of a Real Word.

2. Letter Detective

This second activity for children, called Letter Detective, focuses on working on vocabulary and discrimination.

What it involves

This worksheet for children is a very comprehensive exercise that involves matching phonemes with graphemes by pointing to the position of the indicated letter.

What the activity works on

This activity works on language, specifically young users’ vocabulary and discrimination.

It’s a key exercise for training the written representation of words, since children have to name items, know how they are spelled correctly, and point to the correct position of the grapheme.

Activity levels

The 77 available worksheets are organized into five difficulty levels that become more challenging as you progress: basic, easy, medium, hard, and advanced.

Format and language

This activity for children can be used in Spanish in digital and paper format.

3. What Number Do You Hear?

What Number Do You Hear?, the third activity in this selection for working on dyslexia, focuses on young users’ discrimination skills.

What it involves

With this NeuronUP worksheet, children have to choose the number they hear from several options.

What the activity works on

With this exercise, young users train their auditory discrimination of numbers, which is essential in everyday life since so much information comes in this format, such as clock times or prices.

Activity levels

What Number Do You Hear? is organized into five difficulty levels: basic, easy, medium, hard, and advanced. The difficulty increases as you move up through the levels.

Format and language

This activity is available in digital format for users who work with NeuronUP in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Catalan, and in paper format for users who work with the platform in Spanish and English.

Other versions of the activity

What Number Do You Hear? has an adult version called Differentiate numbers.

4. Lightning Categories

This game, called Lightning Categories, focuses on improving children’s inhibition, processing speed, and sustained attention.

What it involves

In this game, young users must select the items that belong to the indicated category as quickly as possible, while avoiding the ones that don’t.

What the activity works on

With this exercise, children can train their inhibition, processing speed, and sustained attention.

As the level increases, the decision time gets shorter, requiring faster thinking (processing speed), impulse control (inhibition), and steady focus so as not to miss any of the words shown (sustained attention).

Activity levels

This activity is organized into nine difficulty levels, with the first ones being easier than the last.

Customization options

Lightning Categories lets you customize some parameters and general settings to adapt it to each child’s characteristics and needs.

Other versions of the activity

Lightning Categories has an adult version called Categories Against Time.

Example

In this video, you can see an example of Lightning Categories:

5. Rotated Letters

The generator called Rotated Letters, which focuses on pre-reading skills, is the last activity in this selection for working on dyslexia.

What it involves

In this activity, children have to find the indicated letter among a group of rotated letters, regardless of its position.

What the activity works on

With this exercise, young users work on their visuospatial skills, since they have to analyze each letter, mentally rotate it, and decide whether it matches the model, as well as their attention, since they have to correctly recognize the letters that match the one shown and ignore the rest.

Customization options

Rotated Letters lets you customize some parameters and general settings to work individually with each child.

Format and language

This game is available in both digital and paper format for users who work with NeuronUP in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese, and Catalan.

Example

In this video, you can see an example of Rotated Letters:

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