Dyslexia

“Building this routine into the lesson can greatly enhance comprehension of students with learning disabilities” (Bender, 2008, pg. 53). In mainstream education teachers, should also be able to develop alternative assessment methods, because pupils with dyslexia might show a better understanding of a topic using an alternative means of demonstration than a pencil and paper such as intervention. Teachers need to support children with SEN in every lesson so this could be challenging as whole class…

Verbal short term impairment in dyslexia One major deficit that is visible amongst dyslexics is a deficient verbal short term working memory. Studies have shown that short term memory ability is important as it is a predictor of oral and written language development in children (Ramus, Marshall, Rosen & Vanderlely, 2013; Majerus & Cowan, 2016). This entail that a deficit verbal short-term memory will impair and further increase difficulties carrying out academic task. A deficit verbal working…

When students begin to doubt their abilities to complete projects or understand content, a self-fulfilling prophecy develops. Wigfield and Eccles partnered in two studies about the effect ability beliefs have on performance; in both the 1996 and 1995 studies, they found that believing that one is capable of completing a task influences the motivation to begin the task and the persistence to continue the task until the desired results are accomplished. The problem of motivation, combined with a…

I have never had the passion of reading. When I was younger my mom would always read me a short story before bed time. As a toddler, I would try reading to my mom and make up little stories of my own. Growing up, I was diagnosed at an early age with ADHD (Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder). When I was not on medication, consecrating on homework or class work was always a challenge for me. Reading and writing has never been a passion of mine. The only time I would read a book or a novel…

2. Multiple Oral Re-Reading (Moyer, 1979) Let’s start off by looking at the Multiple Oral Re-Reading treatment, which was first used by Moyer (1979) in a patient with pure dyslexia. MOR is a text base reading treatment, where patients are instructed to read a passage from Scientific Research Associates Reading Laboratory series (SRA; Parker & Scannell, 1998) aloud during a weekly (?) session with their therapist. The SRA series is divided into 12 levels of text, each which have 12 passages.…

Is cursive writing a powerful brain tool? In my opinion cursive writing is neccessatiy all schools should.There is no wrong or right way to write it's just a better way. Cursive writing is necessary because it helps the brain become stronger, it is a common teaching tool, and it reduces the effects of brain damage or weaknesses. First, cursive writing is important because it strengthens the brain. Medical brain scans provide evidence that writing in cursive helps stimulate the brain on…

guessed it to bring home to her parents. While Mr. Daniels figures out Ally can really think outside the box he teaches her to play the strategy game of chess after school. Her new teacher suggested that Ally goes to specialist who diagnosed her with dyslexia. The therapist gives her these multi- colored pieces of see through paper to put over what she is reading to make her headaches less frequent and,…

starting point for support. By examining the evidence from all parts of the assessment, the test results and my consultation with TR, there is strong evidence to confirm the existence of a specific learning difficulty (SpLD), dyslexia. Please see the Conclusion for a definition of dyslexia (page 23). In addition TR demonstrates some dyspraxic tendencies. The following patterns of strengths, weaknesses and indicators have been observed. Areas of Strength:…

effect (pg 435). In experiment two Grainger and colleagues (2003) gave the same test to non-dyslexic children but were the same age as the dyslexic ones. They found that there was no difference between the children of same age that had dyslexia or didn’t have dyslexia when it came to identifying the letter. When identifying the word and reading it aloud the non-dyslexic same age group children did better on both tasks. The experimenters still found that there is a pseudoword superiority effect…

Johnson, 2005). Of special interest is to understand neurobiological risk factors or end phenotypes for developmental reading disorder and how deficits in processes like auditory and speech perception, visual and audiovisual processing contribute to dyslexia, and more widely to reading fluency, reading comprehension and reading/information seeking in digital media. Our aim is also to…