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Using acronyms.

 

ITERA.

The use of acronyms can be helpful to a dyslexic student when a list of facts or sequence of items must be remembered, and your memory is just not up to it!.

An acronym is a word or phrase made from the initial letter or letters of each of the successive parts or major parts of a compound term.

For example, the acronym ITERA stands for Intuitive Thinking in Environmental Risk Appraisal.

Of course, acronyms can be created by a student to remember a specific item, such as the planets in our solar system in sequence (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto).

Taking the first letter of each word, you would have:

m, v, e, m, j, s, u, n, and p.

Make up a nonsensical phrase to help you remember the exact order, such as,

"My very elegant mother just served us nine pies."

Acronyms can sometimes be helpful in remembering the sequences of procedures, for example, to follow in order to make a computer program operate correctly.

For example:

1. Put in the figures,
2. Add them together, and,
3. Total them.

The three highlighted letters give - F A T - which is easier to remember than the whole sequence.

This is just a small example, but you may be able to make one up to match your own studies.