1. Dyslexia Scotland Roadshow Angus 22 May 2012

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4. What is dyslexia?

5. Mr Krook, the eccentric marine store dealer, has a wall pasted with hand-written alphabets to try and teach himself to read. The law clerk, Jobling says: ‘read, he’ll never read. He can make out all the letters separately but he cannot put them together.’

6. What is dyslexia? Dyslexia can be described as a continuum of difficulties in learning to read, write and/or spell, which persist despite the provision of appropriate learning opportunities. These difficulties often do not reflect an individual’s cognitive abilities and may not be typical of performance in other areas.

7. What is dyslexia? The impact of dyslexia as a barrier to learning varies in degree according to the learning and teaching environment, as there are often associated difficulties such as:

8. What is dyslexia? auditory and/or visual processing of language-based information phonological awareness oral language skills and reading fluency short-term and working memory sequencing and directionality number skills organisational ability

9. What is dyslexia? Dyslexia exists in all cultures and across the range of abilities and socio-economic backgrounds. It is a hereditary, life-long, neurodevelopmental condition. Unidentified, dyslexia is likely to result in low self esteem, high stress, atypical behaviour, and low achievement.

10. What is dyslexia? Learners with dyslexia will benefit from early identification, appropriate intervention and targeted effective teaching, enabling them to become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens. Scottish Government/Dyslexia Scotland/Cross party Group on Dyslexia

11. What is dyslexia? Dyslexia is a processing difference experienced by people of all ages, often characterised by difficulties in literacy. Gavin Reid

12. Some key facts

13. One person in ten (over 500,000 people in Scotland) is thought to be dyslexic and of these one in four could be severely dyslexic.

14. Some key facts Difficulties can range from mild to severe and individual profiles can be very different, each with strengths and weaknesses.

15. Some key facts Dyslexic people often have natural talents, creative abilities and vision.

16. Some key facts Dyslexia can occur at any level of intellectual ability.

17. Some key facts Dyslexic people can face difficulties in both education and employment

18. Some key facts Early recognition, appropriate timely intervention, good structured multi-sensory teaching and additional support for learning contribute to success.

19. General Checklist Family history

20. General Checklist Family history of difficulties Good orally but difficulty in writing the answer

21. General Checklist Family history Good orally but difficulty in writing the answer Difficulty with reading/spelling

22. General Checklist Family history Good orally but difficulty in writing the answer Difficulty with reading/spelling Letters/numbers the wrong way round, for example b/d or 15/51

23. General Checklist Reads a word correctly but fails to recognise it further down the page

24. General Checklist Reads a word correctly but fails to recognise it further down the page Spells a word in different ways

25. General Checklist Reads a word correctly but fails to recognise it further down the page Spells a word in different ways Confusion of left/right

26. General Checklist Reads a word correctly but fails to recognise it further down the page Spells a word in different ways Confusion of left/right Clumsy

27. General Checklist Reads a word correctly but fails to recognise it further down the page Spells a word in different ways Confusion of left/right Clumsy Poor sense of rhythm/rhyme

28. General Checklist Poor concentration

29. General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised

30. General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays

31. General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays Difficulty taking notes

32. General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays Difficulty taking notes Difficulty with time/tenses

33. General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays Difficulty taking notes Difficulty with time/tenses Can’t follow a series of instructions

34. Screening Dyslexia Scotland: Assessing Dyslexia Toolkit www.frameworkforinclusion.or g/AssessingDyslexia/

35. Areas to look at Nutrition Visual Auditory Exercise

36. Nutrition A good diet Additives? Essential fatty acids

37. Visual

38. The letters go all blurry The letters move around so I can’t tell which is which The letters seem to float over the page The letters move in and out of the page The letters split and go double

39. Visual The ‘c’ moved over the ‘r’ so it looked like another ‘c’ ‘d’s and ‘b’s sort of get the wrong way round The ‘p’ joined up with the ‘c’ The words go all glary I keep losing my place Blurring of print

40. Common visual symptoms Difficulty moving from one line to the other Movement of words or letters Short visual concentration span ‘guessing’ words Rubbing of eyes Headaches/migraines Seeing non-existent blotches or diamonds

41. The rivers effect Reading by the Colours: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities Helen Irlen

42. The Seesaw effect Reading by the Colours: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities Helen Irlen

43. The Swirl Effect Reading by the Colours: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities Helen Irlen

44. Visual Coloured overlays, coloured lenses and coloured paper can help.

45. Auditory

46. Some of the problems Difficulty following sequential directions Difficulty with dictated information Difficulty with background noise Slow to respond to questions or directions Gives inappropriate answers to simple questions Has or has had a speech problem

47. Auditory Right temporal lobe Left temporal lobe Corpus callosum

48. Auditory Left hemisphere responsible for sequential, detailed part of language: formants > phonemes > words > sentences

49. Auditory Right hemisphere mainly responsible for intonation, pitch, stress pattern

50. Auditory The sounds don’t always meet up The sounds cross Background noise gets in the way

52. Sound therapy It is designed to stimulate the nerve pathways into and within the brain - in particular the areas dealing with language - and thus improve language processing abilities.

53. Exercise

54. Exercises for co-ordination:

55. What does it feel like to be dyslexic?

56. Reading

57. Spelling

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73. Spelling Test

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89. Spelling Test expurpation

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124. Spelling Test expurpation

125. Spelling Test expurpation explanation

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139. Writing

140. I am trying very hard to copy this down quickly and correctly but it is very difficult.

141. Writing I keep losing my place and sometimes the words seem to be in a different order.

142. Writing Everyone else seems to do it far more quickly than I can.

143. Writing

144. Reading and understanding the question….

145. If there are five apples on a plate and you take three away, how many apples do you have?

146. A farmer has sixteen sheep and all but nine die. How many sheep does he have left?

147. Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?

148. How many two-pence stamps are there in a dozen?

149. James has two British coins which together add up to 55 pence. One is not a 50 pence piece. What are the coins?

150. Make one word out of the letters NEW DOOR. (You must use all the letters.)

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154. Remember ……. Dyslexia-friendly teaching is good for all pupils!

155. And finally ……. You don’t have to be a specialist to make a difference.

156. And finally ……. YOU can make a difference!!

158. www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk