Dyslexia

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Definition: Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. 

Intervention in Skills: auditory discrimination, auditory memory, and auditory close sure. 

Attributes: Recognizing Signs of Dyslexia: Phonological, auditory: Difficulty in processing in sounds (blending, identifying, isolating, low vocabulary, low level of word recognition). It is a processing difficulty, remembering words in their heads, confusing words like specific and pacific. 

Types of Dyslexia

Visual or Surface or Orthographic Dyslexia

• Having trouble with working memory, picturing the words or letter in the mind. Difficulty with visual processing. Might be very good at general phonics, but may have trouble with irregularly spelled sight words

Attentional Dyslexia

• Letters seem to jump, usually happenes with first letter-wind king- will be read as kind wing.

• Work on visual tracking skills! Visual tracking is easiest to fix!

Neglect Dyslexia

• "Negleting" focus on the sequence of letters

• Visual tracking

Rapid Naming Deficit Dyslexia

• Difficulty in quickly naming

• Reading slower

• Usually happens with phonological dyslexia

• Trouble with comprehension

How to teach a Dyslexic child to read:

• Sit near or host regular private conferences with the student (to frontload, uphold dignity through discretion, repeat things in different ways, touch the paper and words together as you talk). 

• Provide bulleted lists or colored copies of notes that the child can highlight as you teach aloud.

• Speak slowly, minimize directions or information presented, and chunk information

• Use photos and visual representations in teaching, especially for words you know the child has struggled with

• List technical spellings in board before the session

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