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Dyslexia Scotland Roadshow Angus 22 May 2012
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What is dyslexia?
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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.’
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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.
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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:
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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
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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.
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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
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What is dyslexia? Dyslexia is a processing difference experienced by people of all ages, often characterised by difficulties in literacy. Gavin Reid
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Some key facts
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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.
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Some key facts Difficulties can range from mild to severe and individual profiles can be very different, each with strengths and weaknesses.
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Some key facts Dyslexic people often have natural talents, creative abilities and vision.
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Some key facts Dyslexia can occur at any level of intellectual ability.
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Some key facts Dyslexic people can face difficulties in both education and employment
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Some key facts Early recognition, appropriate timely intervention, good structured multi-sensory teaching and additional support for learning contribute to success.
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General Checklist Family history
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General Checklist Family history of difficulties Good orally but difficulty in writing the answer
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General Checklist Family history Good orally but difficulty in writing the answer Difficulty with reading/spelling
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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
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General Checklist Reads a word correctly but fails to recognise it further down the page
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General Checklist Reads a word correctly but fails to recognise it further down the page Spells a word in different ways
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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
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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
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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
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General Checklist Poor concentration
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General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised
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General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays
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General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays Difficulty taking notes
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General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays Difficulty taking notes Difficulty with time/tenses
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General Checklist Poor concentration Badly organised Difficulty planning stories/essays Difficulty taking notes Difficulty with time/tenses Can’t follow a series of instructions
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Screening Dyslexia Scotland: Assessing Dyslexia Toolkit www.frameworkforinclusion.or g/AssessingDyslexia/
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Areas to look at Nutrition Visual Auditory Exercise
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Nutrition A good diet Additives? Essential fatty acids
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Visual
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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
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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
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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
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The rivers effect Reading by the Colours: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities Helen Irlen
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The Seesaw effect Reading by the Colours: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities Helen Irlen
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The Swirl Effect Reading by the Colours: Overcoming Dyslexia and Other Reading Disabilities Helen Irlen
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Visual Coloured overlays, coloured lenses and coloured paper can help.
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Auditory
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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
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Auditory Right temporal lobe Left temporal lobe Corpus callosum
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Auditory Left hemisphere responsible for sequential, detailed part of language: formants > phonemes > words > sentences
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Auditory Right hemisphere mainly responsible for intonation, pitch, stress pattern
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Auditory The sounds don’t always meet up The sounds cross Background noise gets in the way
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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.
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Exercise
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Exercises for co-ordination:
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What does it feel like to be dyslexic?
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Reading
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Spelling
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ovious
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Spelling ovious probaly
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Spelling ovious probaly permant
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Spelling ovious probaly permant competive
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Spelling ovious probaly permant competive sporting
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Spelling obedions
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Spelling obedions herowins
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Spelling obedions herowins orthority
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Spelling obedions herowins orthority lugsureus
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Spelling obedions herowins orthority lugsureus nshore
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Spelling perchsin
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Spelling perchsin sjest
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Spelling perchsin sjest spishus
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Spelling perchsin sjest spishus enkuriged
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Spelling perchsin sjest spishus enkuriged inagsptabal
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Spelling Test
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ohot
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Spelling Test ohot wilf
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Spelling Test ohot wilf veresece
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Spelling Test ohot wilf veresece noinsions
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Spelling Test ohot wilf veresece noinsions neurij
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Spelling Test cloeshon
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Spelling Test cloeshon cachataball
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Spelling Test cloeshon cachataball expnash
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Spelling Test cloeshon cachataball expnash theacher
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Spelling Test cloeshon cachataball expnash theacher oriadanlaty
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Spelling Test incored
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Spelling Test incored obdunses
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Spelling Test incored obdunses eriginaligy
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Spelling Test incored obdunses eriginaligy extrusurher
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Spelling Test incored obdunses eriginaligy extrusurher awkuging
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Spelling Test expurpation
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Spelling Test expurpation yun
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Spelling Test expurpation yun trininalagy
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Spelling Test expurpation yun trininalagy arecinatatey
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Spelling Test expurpation yun trininalagy arecinatatey xx
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Spelling Test ohot
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Spelling Test ohotwhat
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilf
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilfwealth
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilfwealth veresece
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilfwealth veresecevarious
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilfwealth veresecevarious noinsions
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilfwealth veresecevarious noinsionsnonsense
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilfwealth veresecevarious noinsionsnonsense neurij
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Spelling Test ohotwhat wilfwealth veresyvarious nosinsnonsense neurijencouraged
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Spelling Test cloeshon
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Spelling Test cloeshoncollection
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash explanation
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash explanation theacher
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash explanation theacher feature
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash explanation theacher feature oriadanlaty
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash explanation theacher feature oriadanlaty originality
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Spelling Test incored
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Spelling Test incored encouraged
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy originality
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy originality extrusurher
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy originality extrusurher extinguisher
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy originality extrusurher extinguisher awkuging
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy originality extrusurher extinguisher awkuging arguing
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Spelling Test expurpation
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun young
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun young trininalagy
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun young trininalagy originality
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun young trininalagy originality arecinatatey
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun young trininalagy originality arecinatatey originality
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun young trininalagy originality arecinatatey originality xx
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Spelling Test expurpation explanation yun young trininalagy originality arecinatatey originality xx excess
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Spelling Test cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash explanation theacher feature oridanlaty originality
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy originality extrusurher extinguisher arecinataty originality
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Spelling Test
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cloeshon collection cachatball charitable expnash explanation theacher feature oridanlaty originality
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Spelling Test incored encouraged obdunses obedience eriginaligy originality extrusurher extinguisher oriadanlaty originality
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Writing
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I am trying very hard to copy this down quickly and correctly but it is very difficult.
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Writing I keep losing my place and sometimes the words seem to be in a different order.
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Writing Everyone else seems to do it far more quickly than I can.
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Writing
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Reading and understanding the question….
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If there are five apples on a plate and you take three away, how many apples do you have?
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A farmer has sixteen sheep and all but nine die. How many sheep does he have left?
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Is it legal for a man to marry his widow’s sister?
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How many two-pence stamps are there in a dozen?
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James has two British coins which together add up to 55 pence. One is not a 50 pence piece. What are the coins?
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Make one word out of the letters NEW DOOR. (You must use all the letters.)
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Remember ……. Dyslexia-friendly teaching is good for all pupils!
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And finally ……. You don’t have to be a specialist to make a difference.
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And finally ……. YOU can make a difference!!
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www.dyslexiascotland.org.uk
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