Dyslexia

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3-6

Dyslexia

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

What is dyslexia?

• A learning disability
  
• Difficulty reading
  
• Difficulty writing
  

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

Name a symptom of dyslexia

What are the symptoms

• school age
• teens and adults 

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.

• 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

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
   

• 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

What causes dyslexia?

• runs in the family
• genes 
• risk factors

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.

The complications

• Trouble learning
• Social problems
• Problems as adults

What do you think could help a student with Dyslexia?

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.

The case study

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

Helpful websites

Hersenstichting

Expertisecentrum Dyslexie

Kennis- en Behandelcentrum Dyslexie