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Get Ready to Huddle! Discover Intensive Phonics
(K-3rd Grade SPED) Huddle 4th Tuesday of each
month at 2 pm MT Please Call 1-888-848-0190
Passcode 8768292 Presented by Shantell
Berrett
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Why Dyslexia?

• Research has shown that about 1 in 5 people have
  dyslexia. Dyslexia is about 85 of what you will
  see in Special Education. Most difficulties with
  reading and spelling are some form of processing
  disorder(s) such as dyslexia and require research
  based intervention.

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Myths and facts about dyslexia.

• There are too many misconceptions about dyslexia.
• Knowledge is power.
• We must be empowered as teachers to truly help
  our students and address all of their needs.

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Myth 1 Individuals with dyslexia are of low
intelligence, slow learners, or mentally
retarded.

• Dys (meaning poor or inadequate) plus lexis
  (words or language) It is essentially a problem
  with words.
• Dyslexic people process language poorly, but
  that doesnt mean they aren't intelligent.
• Dyslexia is a unique mind set that is often
  gifted and productive, but learns differently
  than other minds.

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Myth 2 Individuals with dyslexia are just
lazy and simply need to apply themselves.

• People with dyslexia are not poorly taught, lazy,
  or stupid, but have an inborn brain abnormality
  that has nothing to do with intelligence.
• Processing language is laborious and exhausting
  for them.

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Myth 3 Individuals with dyslexia see
backward.

• Dyslexia is not a deficit in the visual
  processing system.
• Those with processing issues can exhibit what is
  called Recency Effect.
• They can also have tracking issues.

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Myth 3 Cont.

• Directional tracking is an important and an
  often-neglected, essential tool in reading.
• For accurate reading, the student must process
  sounds in order from left-to-right. Knowing the
  individual sounds is not sufficient. (Gagen,
  www.righttrackreading.com/tracking.html)
• You need to directly teach proper directional
  tracking because scanning left-to-right in a
  straight line manner is not a natural process.
  Instinctively, looking all over is a superior way
  to gather and process information. (Gagen)

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Myth 4 Those with dyslexia make up a small
percentage of the general population.

• According to the latest dyslexia research from
  the National Institutes of Health, dyslexia
  affects 20 percent of Americans.
• Thats one out of every five children.
• Dyslexia is by far the most common learning
  disability.

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Myth 5 Those with dyslexia will never
improve and will always be poor readers.

• Dyslexia is a not a disease and can not be cured
  by a trip to the doctor or a magic pill. It is a
  way of thinking, the way the brain is wired and
  how it processes information.
• Research has shown that the brain can actually be
  rewired if the individual is taught with
  systematic, explicit, sequential phonics taught
  in a multi-sensory way.

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Primary visual cortex
Inferior frontal gyrus
Visual perception
Angural gyrus
Superior temporal gyrus
Unimpaired Student
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Inferior frontal gyrus
Visual perception
Dyslexic Student
(Attempts to convert visual information into
sounds)
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Clues to Dyslexia

• One of the very first clues to dyslexia may be
  delayed language. Once a child begins to speak,
  look for the following problems
• The Preschool Years
• Trouble learning common nursery rhymes such as
  Jack and Jill and Humpty Dumpty
• A lack of appreciation of rhymes
• Mispronounced words persistent baby talk
• Difficulty in learning (and remembering) names of
  letters
• Failure to know the letters in his own name

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Clues to Dyslexia cont.

• Kindergarten and First Grade
• Failure to understand that words come apart for
  example, that batboy can be pulled apart into
  bat and boy and, later on, that the word
  bat can be broken down still further and
  sounded out as b aaa t.
• Inability to learn to associate letters with
  sounds, such as being unable to connect the
  letter b with the /b/ sound.
• Reading errors that show no connection to the
  sounds of the letters for example, the word
  big is read as goat.
• The inability to read common one-syllable words
  or to sound out even the simplest of words, such
  as mat, cat, hop, nap.
• Complaints about how hard reading is, or running
  and hiding when it is time to read
• A history of reading problems in parents or
  siblings

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Clues to Dyslexia cont.

• Clues for 3rd grade and above
• Very slow progress in acquiring reading skills
• Trouble reading unknown (new, unfamiliar) words
  that must be sounded out making wild stabs or
  guesses at reading a word failure to
  systematically sound out words
• The inability to read small functionwords such
  as that, an, in.
• Stumbling on reading multi-syllable words, or the
  failure to come close to sounding out the full
  word
• Omitting parts of words when reading the failure
  to decode parts within a word, as if someone had
  chewed a hole in the middle of the word, such as
  conible for convertible.
• A terrific fear of reading out loud the
  avoidance of oral reading
• Oral reading filled with substitutions,
  omissions, and mispronunciations
• Oral reading that is choppy and labored, not
  smooth or fluent
• A reliance on context to discern the meaning of
  what is read
• A better ability to understand words in context
  than to read isolated single words
• The inability to finish tests on time
• The substitution of words with the same meaning
  for words in the text he cant pronounce, such as
  car for automobile.
• Disastrous spelling, with words not resembling
  true spelling (some spellings may be missed by
  spell check)

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Summary

• Research has shown that those with dyslexia need
  systematic, explicit phonics taught in a
  multi-sensory way.
• Other Learning Disabilities that include deficits
  in language processing have all been found to
  benefit from systematic phonics and phonemic
  awareness activities.

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The Gift of Dyslexia

• Those with dyslexia will always see and process
  things differently, and truly this can be a gift.
  
• "Dyslexia is not a disease to have and to be
  cured of, but a way of thinking and learning.
  Often it's a gifted mind waiting to be found and
  taught."- Girard Sagmiller, "Dyslexia My Life

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Get Ready for the next Discover Intensive Phonics
Huddle! Tuesday, April 28th at 200pm MT