Dyslexia

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Dyslexia

• What is it all about???

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Where is the problem?

• The deficit lies in the language system, NOT in
  the visual system
• -- NOT an overall language problem IS a
  localized weakness within a specific component of
  the language system the phonologic module
• Dyslexia represents a specific disability with
  reading
• NOT with thinking skills

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Phonological ????

• Phonologic derived from Greek, phone , meaning
  sound.
• The phonologic module - language factory,
  part of brain where SOUNDS of language are put
  together, to form words and where words are
  broken down into their elemental sounds.

cat
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Whats a phoneme????

• The smallest sound in a word.
• Fundamental element
• of the language system,
• essential building block of all
• spoken words

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How many phonemes are there????

• 44 phonemes in the English language! Produce tens
  of thousands of words!
• c---------a-----------t 3
  phonemes
• Before words can be identified, understood
  , stored, or retrieved, must be broken down into
  phonemes (by the brain).
• Necessary for speaking and reading

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What about the dyslexic child?

• The phonemes are less developed
• Difficulty retrieving phoneme that is similar in
  sound says
• lotion for ocean
• Knows what he wants to say, cannot retrieve it

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• Dyslexic child might put phonemes in wrong order
  emeny for enemy
• Dyslexic children and adults have difficulty
  developing awareness that spoken and written
  words are made up of these phonemes or building
  blocks.

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The Phonologic Model

• Tells exact steps that must be taken for student
  to know that letters seen on a page represent
  sounds he /she hears when the same word is
  spoken.
• The process for learning this is orderly,
  sequential and logical.

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• Also ...
• the process is critical and must occur
  before reading can take place.

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Steps to reading

• 1. student becomes aware that words he hears are
  not whole sounds, but made up of parts
• 2. becomes aware that these segments represent
  sounds (cat has 3 sounds)

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• 3. links letters he sees to sounds he hears
• 4. realization - that letters are related to
  sounds and printed word and the spoken word are
  related.

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• 5. understanding that spoken and written words
  can be pulled apart based on the same sounds
  and, in print, the letters represent these
  sounds.

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Now.

• Now, student is ready to readhas made the
  linkage.
• Mastered the alphabetic principle!