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Dyslexia

What every Teacher needs to know about DYSLEXIA?

Children with dyslexia suffer in reading, spelling and / or speaking. The degree of suffering varies from one individual to another based on the type of teaching the person receives and on the inherited differences in brain development.
 Characteristics of Dyslexia:
  • Difficulties with accurate word recognition.
  • Poor spelling.
  • Problems in reading comprehension.
  • Reduced reading experience.
Symptoms and signs of Dyslexia: 
  • Difficulty in remembering simple sequences, such as: counting to 20, naming the days of the week.
  •  Difficulty in understanding the rhyming of words, such as: fat and cat
  • Pronunciation difficulties.
  • Trouble in remembering names of places and people.
  • Difficulty in remembering spoken directions.
Causes of having Dyslexia:
  •  Neuroanatomy (neurological aspect). 
  • Genes and Heredity.
  • Gene-Environment.





how to deal with dyslexic students:
  • Taping lectures rather than writing notes, and listening to books on tape rather than reading them.
  • Using computer software to check spelling and grammar.
  • Using flash cards.
  • Making and creating an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
  • providing multisensory experiences for students related to each book that they read, such as using stories and coloring pages.
  • choosing rhyming books with high repetition of words and phrases.
  • Playing sound matching games.
  • Trying to complete a lesson at one sitting. An incomplete lesson is entirely lost on them.
  • Using Mind maps for all subjects.
 



 
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