The assembly today is about

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• The assembly today is about
• Dyslexia

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Famous Dyslexics
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• Dyslexia is the most common special educational
  need found in schools
• Numerous statistics indicate that about 5 of the
  population are severely dyslexic. It is severe
  enough for them to need special help during their
  school careers.
• 10 of people show some dyslexic tendencies.

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Dyslexia is a learning difference which can
occur at any level of intellectual ability.

• It can cause difficulties in one or more of the
  following areas
• spoken language
  
• reading
• writing
• maths

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What is Dyslexia?

• Reading Handwriting
• Spelling
• Dyslexia

Short Term Memory
Sequencing
Copying from the board
Self esteem
Organising
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How do we feel?

• Dumb
• Embarrassed
• Everybody else is better than you
• Slow
• Frustrated
• Anxious
• Cross

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How do we sometimes behave?

• Take it out on my friends and family
• Shout and misbehave
• Have a go at everyone
• Just want to sit there dont want to do nothing
• Stubborn
• Chew pen
• Bite nails

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• sometimes my eyes go funny and I cant see them
  it looks like they are going wavy and they get
  mixed up and small words look like black things
  with white in between.

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What are we like?
Clumsy I can trip over my own feet.
Disorganised
Easily distracted
Hard to concentrate
Hard to do more than one thing at a time
Messy
Forgetful
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• My mind is like spaghetti junction.

I wish people were like robots and you could
plug a printer in your head so you can print out
whats in your head.
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However, what school subjects are we good at?

• Art
• Drama
• Music
• Sport
• Design Technology
• Maths
• Science

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Strengths of dyslexic people
Creative
Thinking
Musical
Dramatic
Good at sport
Imaginative
Artistic
Sociable
Good at Design
Talkative
Good at making things
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How do we help dyslexic people?

• A well structured reading and spelling programme
  that is multi-sensory.
• Use of coloured overlays
• Highlight key words
• Use post-it notes to organise ideas

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• Use a computer to do school work especially
  extended pieces of writing.
• Use mind maps to record work and to revise for
  exams.

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Who should I talk to at this school?

• My tutor
• My English teacher
• Mrs Barton
• A teacher who I know is dyslexic Mr Williams
  (Maths) or Mr Millward (Science)