Dyslexia

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EngelsMiddelbare schoolmavo, havo, vwoLeerjaar 3-6

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Dyslexia

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Table of contents
  • What is dyslexia?
  • Statistics
  • What are the symptoms?
  • Video
  • Experiences of someone with dyslexia
  • What causes dyslexia
  • The complications of dyslexia
  • What can you do to help?
  • The case study
  • helpful websites

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What is dyslexia?
  • A learning disability
  • Difficulty reading
  • Difficulty writing

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Statistics
  • around 5 % of Dutch inhabitants has a minor form of dyslexia
  • another 5% has more severe dyslexia
  • 2.4 x more boys than girls have dyslexia. 
  • 3 – 5% of the students have dyslexia  
  • 1 parent = 30 - 40% chance
  • both parents = 80% chance

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Name a symptom of dyslexia

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What are the symptoms
  • school age
  • teens and adults 

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School-age
  • Reading well below the expected level for age
  • Problems processing and understanding what he or she hears.
  • Difficulty finding the right word or forming answers to questions.
  • Problems remembering the sequence of things.

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  • Difficulty seeing (and occasionally hearing) similarities and differences in letters and words.
  • Inability to sound out the pronunciation of an unfamiliar word.
  • Difficulty spelling
  • Spending an unusually long-time completing tasks that involve reading or writing.
  • Avoiding activities that involve reading

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Teens and adults
  • Difficulty reading, including reading aloud.
  • Slow and labour-intensive reading and writing
  • Problems spelling
  • Avoiding activities that involve reading.
  • Mispronouncing names or words, or problems retrieving words
     

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  • Trouble understanding jokes or expressions that have a meaning not easily understood from the specific words (idioms), such as "piece of cake" meaning "easy”.
     
  • Spending an unusually long-time completing tasks that involve reading or writing. 
  • Difficulty summarizing a story.
  • Trouble learning a foreign language.
  • Difficulty memorizing
  • Difficulty doing math problems.

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Experiences from someone with dyslexia
  • 3rd year of the MAVO
  • difficulty reading and writing
  •  most trouble with spelling words
  • extra time helped
  • biggest problems now during work

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What causes dyslexia?
  • runs in the family
  • genes 
  • risk factors

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Risk factors
• A family history of dyslexia or other learning disabilities
• Premature birth or low birth weight
• Exposure during pregnancy to nicotine, drugs, alcohol, or infection that may alter brain development in the foetus.


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The complications
  • Trouble learning
  • Social problems
  • Problems as adults

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What do you think could help a student with Dyslexia?

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What could help a student?
  • Visualise- use a whiteboard. (use letter types like Calibri, Arial, Tahoma or Verdana to make it easier for them)
  • leave instructions/spellings etc on the board for as long as possible. 
  • prepare individual crib sheets to minimize copying from the board. 
  • Testing orally
  • Use a program that reads the text out loud for them.

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The case study
  • The case study can be found on teams
  • you have 15 minutes
  • use breakout room 1 and 2

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