Devan Masessa

Ashley Rogers
Amy Delaney

https://www.emaze.com/@ATLRIRQC/dyslexia

EEC 424
October 3, 2017
Dyslexia
Characteristics
Definition
Dyslexia is the most
common form of learning
difficulty. Problems with
reading and related
difficulties with
comprehension, spelling
and writing are common
for these students. Many
people with dyslexia also
experience difficulties with
working memory,
attention, and
organizational skills

ACT Government, 2014


Misconceptions:
Its a boy thing
People with Dyslexia read
backwards, thats all
People with Dyslexia just need
to try harder
Dyslexia is a sign of low IQ
Dyslexia is curable
Understood, 2017
Resources
for
Parents:
https://www.understood
.org/en
https://ldaamerica.org/p
arents
www.learningally.org/P
arents/Dyslexia-
Resources
http://dyslexia.yale.edu/
PAR_wordvocab.html
http://childrensdyslexia
centers.org/Resources.a
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Causes
The exact cause is still not completely clear
Brain Anatomy: the ways that the different parts of
their brain interacts and connects to one another
Brain Functions: Students have to use different areas
of the brain to compensate for all
Heredity
Dyslexic students can learn with appropriate teaching
methods
Understood, 2017
Range of Severity
Phonological Dyslexia students cant break down
individual sounds of language and match with
written symbols
Surface difficult to remember whole words by sight
Rapid Naming Deficit cant rapidly name letters
and numbers by sight
Double Deficit Dyslexia mix of phonological and
rapid naming deficit
Visual Dyslexia range of things, and is often an
unusual visual experience when looking at words
Understood, 2017
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Prevalence/ What does it
Statistics feel like to
Most common learning disability
15-20% have some symptoms of dyslexia
have Dyslexia?
Simulation:
80% of children with an IEP have https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ3MFFP
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reading difficulty and 85% of those are
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dyslexic
Nearly the same percentage of people
from different ethnic and socioeconomic
backgrounds have dyslexia
Video of a
Nearly the same amount of males and student who has
females Dyslexia:
Dyslexia Center of Utah, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3EI4eSo
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https://www.gemmlearning.com/blog/reading_and_dyslexia/the-true-cause-of-dyslexia/
Interventions and Assessments:
Reading:
Systematic phonics teaching
Grapheme/phoneme correspondences in a clearly defined, incremental sequence
To apply the highly important skill of blending (synthesizing) phonemes in order, all through
a word to read it
To apply the skills of segmenting words into their constituent phonemes to spell
That blending and segmenting are reversible processes

Writing
Encourage students to write letters, sound patterns (graphemes), words, and sentences to support
and reinforce segmentation strategies and the acquisition of phonics rules.

Math
Multisensory active and interactive integration of visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and tactile
elements of teaching

Self-regulation
Give students time to breathe to refresh their body if feeling overwhelmed
Have students set goals

Visual
Not over visualizing by covering pictures in text and the other sentences below to go line by line
while reading

Auditory
Use speech when reading (audiobooks) to help students connect words to sight

Feedback
Reinforcing that students are smart and showing the positives of what they are doing
Asset lens

Assessments
Make sure you are assessing the content, and not how the student is getting to the content

Identifying and Teaching Children and Young people with Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties, Sir Jim Rose, 2009

Dyslexia Help Success Starts Here, University of Michigan, 2017