Story - Hartwig Distler

desire was it to learn reading and writing again, particularly in the view to be able to read out to his daughter later.
This goal he had in front of his eyes and was firmly decided to work hard to reach this. And the work began…
Been suitable to the renewed acquisition of the writing language appeared to me „Anagramm”, a fastidious program, in which with increasing
degree of difficulty all letters and combinations of letters of the “ABC” are learned anew again.
At the 26. 4. 2006 we began with the first chapter, in which the Grapheme T, H, A, U were introduced. Mr. Distler task was to put characters in
the correct sequence and to create small sentences such as „the woman has a colored hat“, or gap sets with a given words should be filled or
small cross word mysteries should be solved. Read exercises and writing after a dictation of sounds and words.
In order to embody the characters better in memory, we put together so called “Anlaut-Tabellen” (initial sound tables). Mr. Distler should
connect individual characters with certain articles like A for apple or H for head. For that purpose we took school like initial sound tables and
partially private words such as Distler for “D”. In the therapy I used magnet characters which Mr. Distler should pick out and assign. At home
he did use large wooden characters.
28.05.2008
Therapy 1
In order to get an idea of the time which he required to learn four or five new characters, it took about three weeks to obtain this. The
characters compiled in the therapy should be strengthened at home in small exercises. I could give to Mr. Distler never enough „homework“,
always everything was thoroughly and fast settled and beyond that tasks of diligence made.
Gladly Mr. Distler used even the smallest places, in order for example to fill hole DIN A 4 pages with A’s or H’s.
The 45 minutes of therapy were loosened up by interesting discussions. Mr. Distler always let me be part of his new experiences and
realizations over his experiencing language, the characters, the numbers, the memory… and I was fascinated from the almost childlike joy,
with which Mr. Distler did relearn the writing again, without ever complaining about his fate or express displeasure or express thoughts about