Dyslexic kids can have an awfully hard time staying organized. To keep your dyslexic child's life on track and on schedule, she needs to know exactly where she should be and when and what color file to take there. Colored files, towels, pencil cases, water bottles, and anything else available in assorted colors make life easier for your child. When she can reach for a color rather than a written label, knowing that blue stuff is always hers, she does stuff quicker and with minimum fuss.

At the start of each school semester, help your child color code anything that can, within human reason, be allotted a color. Drawers and files are obvious things to stick colored labels on, but your child may like to color code other things, like musical notes (on the page and on the instrument), nouns and genders (using highlighter pens) in a written foreign language, and topographical features on maps.