What is Dyslexia

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What is Dyslexia?

• Presentation by
• Amber Wilde and Kate Demko

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Famous People with Dyslexia
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Questions Surrounding Dyslexia

• 1) The question of conceptualization.
• The question of teaching.
• 3) The question of resourcing.

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CONCEPTUALIZATIONWHAT IS DYSLEXIA?

• Many definitions
• Which is right?
• Many characteristics/symptoms
• What are the true indicators?

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Some Symptoms

• Speech/language difficulties
• Poor short-term memory
• Difficulties ordering/sequencing
• Poor concentration
• Poor verbal fluency
• Frequent letter reversals
• Low self-image
• Etc. etc. etc.

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Discussion

• Can we differentiate between children with
  dyslexia and children with literacy difficulties?
• Can we locate individuals into clear
  dyslexic/non-dyslexic groups?

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TEACHING INTERVENTIONS

• Its all about PHONICS!
• Reading Recovery Program

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What it feels like to be dyslexic
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RESOURCING

• PROBLEM getting resources for kids
• Inefficiency resources used for
  diagnoses/classification that could be better
  used for intervention
• Inequality suggests that other poor readers
  (without dyslexia identification) have less
  access to resources/support

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References

• Julian G. Elliott is a Professor of Education at
  Durham University. He has worked with children
  with literacy difficulties as a mainstream and
  special education teacher, an educational
  psychologist, and more recently as an academic.
• Elliott, Julian G. (Spring 2006). Dyslexia
  Diagnoses, Debates and Diatribes. Education
  Canada 46 (2), 14-17.