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What can impact learning?
Ears Infection Damage
Eyes Far sightedness Near sightedness Eye movement problems
Nose Allergies Sinus Infections
Throat Tonsils
Brain trauma Concussions Seizures Strokes Tumors
Dyslexia Medications Sleep Disorders Speech ADHDThis is only a partial list of factors that can impact a child’s ability to learn. Please notice that most are medical. See a professional.
What can impact learning?
Sleep 0-3 months: 14-17 hours 4-11 months: 12 to 15 hours 3-5 years: 10 to 13 hours 6-13 years: 9 to 11 hours 14-17 years: 8 to 10 hours 18-25 years: 7 to 9 hours 26-64 years: 7 to 9 hours 65 and older: 7 to 8 hours
What is Dyslexia?
Definition: Dyslexia is a specific (to print) learning disability that is
neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with
accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor
spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically
result from a deficit in the phonological component of language
that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary
consequences may include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experience that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge. Adopted by the IDA Board, November 2002. This definition is also used by the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), 2002.
Definition of Dyslexia from the Texas Education Code
TEC 38.003
“Dyslexia” means a disorder of constitutional origin manifested by a difficulty in learning to read, write, or spell, despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and socio-cultural opportunity. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction. Secondary consequences my include problems in reading comprehension and reduced reading experiences that can impede growth of vocabulary and background knowledge.
Primary Characteristics of
Dyslexia Difficulty reading words in isolation
Difficulty accurately decoding (sounding out) unfamiliar words including nonsense words
Difficulty with oral reading (slow, inaccurate, or labored)
Difficulty spelling
Primary Characteristics are most often associated with
the following Segmenting, blending, and manipulating sounds
in words (phonemic awareness)
Learning the names of letters and their associated sounds
Holding information about sounds and words in memory (phonological memory)
Rapidly recalling the names of familiar objects, colors, or letters of the alphabet (rapid naming)
Decision Points Difficulty in one or more primary characteristics of dyslexia
Result of a deficit in phonological processing (see Phonemic Awareness section for examples)
Unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of effective classroom instruction
Assessment Process Notify parents/guardians of proposal to assess student for
dyslexia
Inform parents/guardians of 504 rights
Obtain parent permission to assess student for dyslexia
Administer measures only by individual trained in assessment to evaluate students for dyslexia and related disorders
Assessor gathers data
Committee Meeting Committee reviews all accumulated data
Review the data in relation to the 3 decision points
Committee Decision is made Does the student have dyslexia? Yes, they automatically
receive appropriate instruction. No, continue through the RTI process.
Instruction Wilson Language Program
Explicit, direct instruction that is systematic, sequential, and cumulative
Multisensory
Definition Phonemic awareness refers to the ability to
segment and manipulate the sounds of oral language. It is not the same as phonics, which involves knowing how written letters relate to spoken sounds. Activities that develop phonemic awareness in children provide practice with rhyme and with beginning sounds and syllables.International Reading Association
1980’s research – “preschoolers phonological aptitude predicts his reading three years later…training a young child to attend to the sounds in spoken words before he goes to school significantly improves his success in learning to read later on. Overcoming Dyslexia-page 55 Sally Shaywitz
Difficulty of Skill Sequence
Rhyme (recognition, production)
Alliteration
Syllable Counting (blending, segmentation, deletion)
Phoneme Isolation (initial, final)
Phoneme Blending
Phoneme Manipulation (addition, deletion, substitution, transposition)
Activities
Rhyme Read or sing nursery rhymes Take turns saying words that rhyme
Bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, gnat, pat, rat, that, vat, chat
They can be real or make-believe words Questions
Does _____ rhyme with _____? What rhymes with __________?
Activities
Alliteration Read aloud Tongue Twisters (Peter Piper) Create new ones
A name and job (Teresa Teacher) A simple sentence (Dogs dive.) A sentence (Donuts dipped in dots is
delicious.)
Activities Syllable counting, blending, segmentation and deletion
A syllable is a push of breath (hand under chin to feel the mouth open or hand in front of mouth to feel the push of breath)
Say a word and count the syllables. (jump=1, castle=2, elephant=3)
Blending: Say sea, wait 1-3 seconds, say shell. What’s the word? (compound words) Say win, wait 1-3 seconds, say ter. What’s the word? (multisyllabic word)
Segmentation: Say cupcake. The child tells you the parts. Deletion: Say cupcake without the cup. Say winter without
the ter.
Activities
Phoneme Isolation Initial
What is the first sound you hear in __________?
FinalWhat is the last sound you hear in
___________?
Activities Phoneme Blending
Read my mind: starts with /p/ ends with /eek/ What am I saying? /p/ /ouch/ Same as above breaking it down into each individual sound. /p/ /ee/ /k/ Same as above breaking off the last sound. /pee/ /k/
Troll talk story that can be used for each of the above activities. Once upon a time, there was kind, little troll who loved to give people
presents. The only catch was that the troll always wanted people to know what their present was before giving it to them. The problem was that the little troll had a very strange way of talking. If he was going to tell a child that the present was a bike, he would say /b/ /i/ /k/. Not until the child has guessed what the present was would he be completely happy. Now I will pretend to be the troll. I will name a surprise for you . When you figure it out, it will be your turn to be the troll.
Activities
Phoneme Manipulation Addition: say /est/ add /w/ to the
beginning; say/wes/ add /t/ to the end Deletion: say meat, say meat without
the /m/; say meat, say meat without the /t/; say clap, say clap without the /c/; say clap, say clap without the /l/.
Substitution: Say hard. Change /h/ to /k/. Transposition: Sunshine changes to
shinesun
Credits The Source for Dyslexia and Dysgraphia by Regina G Richards
How to Reach and Teach Students with Dyslexia: Practical Strategies and Activities for Helping Students with Dyslexia by Cynthia M. Stowe
Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz
Dyslexia: Definitions and Services PowerPoint by Tracie Young
http://dyslexia.mtsu.edu
http://www.region10.org/Dyslexia/Index.html