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Dyslexia explained
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Deuan Adelina Iulia
Lascu Andreea
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What is Dyslexia?
a specific learning disability
impairs a person's fluency or comprehension
accuracy in being able to read
difficulty with phonological awareness and decoding
affects orthographic coding and rapid naming
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Short history 1878-Dr. Kussmaul: the reading blindness
1895- the case of Percy 1925-Dr. Samuel T. Orton: teaching strategies
1939-Dr. Alfred Struss and R. Heinz
Werner:findings in learning difficulties
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Types of dyslexia
Visual dyslexia
Phonological dyslexia
Dyspraxia
Verbal praxis
Dysgraphia
Dyscalculia
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Causes genetic condition
phonological processing impairment
different brain functioning cerebellum dysfunction
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Who has it? Dyslexia appears to be more common in
boys than girls. Dyslexia affects people of all ethnic
backgrounds
A person's native language can play animportant role
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Symptoms1.Symptoms in preschoolers
Problems with pronunciation.
Problems with rhyming words and
learning rhymes.
Difficulty with learning shapes, colours
and how to write their own name.
Difficulty with retelling a story in the
right order of events.
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2.Symptoms in primary school children
Problems with reading a single word.
Tries to avoid reading aloud in class.
Doesnt like reading books.
Reads below their expected level.
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3.Symptoms in high school children Poor reading.
Difficulties with writing summaries.
Problems with learning a foreign language.
Bad spelling, including different misspellings
of the same word in one writing assignment.
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4.Symptoms in adults Doesnt like reading books.
Reading and spelling problems.
Better than average memory.
Avoids tasks that involve writing, or else gets
someone else to do the writing for them.
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Diagnosing DyslexiaEvaluation includes :
observations
input from teachers and parents
analysis of student work
developmental and social histories
intelligence
educational
speech/language assessments
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In fight with Dyslexia
build confidence in children suffering
from dyslexia
help students see written language
phonetically
practice alphabets
create activities
utilize technology to cure dyslexia
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Where to get help? Your doctor
Specialist educational psychologist
Your childs school
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Famous People with Dyslexia
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Things to remember
Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties withreading for no apparent reason.
One of the early symptoms may be the
childs inability to understand rhymingwords.
Dyslexia can be hard to diagnose unless the
problem is severe, so seek professionaladvice from a specialist educational
psychologist.
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