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Michaela Cass Intro to Special Education Professor Lara A.A.C.C Fall Semester
Myth
At left, brain areas active in typically developing readers engaged in a rhyming task. Shown at right is the brain area activated in poor readers involved in the same task.
Signs of Dyslexia
! Learning to speak ! Learning letters and their sounds ! Organizing written and spoken language ! Memorizing number facts ! Reading quickly enough to comprehend ! Persisting with and comprehending longer reading assignments ! Spelling ! Learning a foreign language ! Correctly doing math operations
NIH-Funded Study Finds Dyslexia Not Tied to IQ Research on brain activity fails to support widely used approach to identify dyslexic students Thursday, November 3, 2011
Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. International Dyslexia Association 2002
Fact
15% to 20% of U.S. Population
Has a disability called dyslexia, which is a major cause of reading failure in school.
- kidshealth.org
"Trying harder is impossible when you're already trying as hard as you can. But you can always try DIFFERENT" - quote by Seth Godin
Dyslexia
A Learning Difference not a Disability
A school or a medical professional can perform an evaluation for dyslexia. The evaluation is a comprehensive assessment of the childs competence in the following areas: oral language, phonological skills, decoding, reading comprehension, spelling, and writing. Articulation skills, social skills, and/or oral motor difficulties may also be included in the battery of tests.
! Cultivate the students strengths and interests ! Use Universal Design in Softwareclassroom & Assistive Technology instruction
Earobics - This software focuses on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Ages 4-10
Livescribe Smartpen - Records lectures while the student is taking notes. School Age and up Barton Reading and Spelling System - One-onone tutoring system to help students improve reading, spelling, and writing skill. It also teaches how to tutor a dyslexic student. Kidspiration - Software that integrates thinking, literacy, and mathematical skills with learning. Students create maps, diagrams, and webs in picture view and then expand them in writing view.