Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Dyslexia
- What is dyslexia?
- Dyslexia can effect letters and numbers.
- It effects your organisation skills.
- It effects 1 in 10 people.
- You will know someone with Dyslexia!!
- It can be very frustrating for people.
- Is hidden!
- Symptoms
- Tired easily by reading.
- Frustrated by tasks so their behaviour can be erratic.
- Difficulty understanding complex/many instructions.
- It is genetic and inherited.
- Family members will be dyslexic.
- Many young people do not know they are dyslexic.
- Staying focussed can be difficult.
- How can we help?
- Make lessons accessible
- Remember VAK!
- Chunk instructions.
- Display key words.
- Give them a copy of the lesson to refer to.
- Emphasise key points of the lesson.
- Teach key phrases to listen out for.
- Use a buddy scheme
- Use mini-plenaries
- Print onto pastel paper
- Use pastel backgrounds on IWB
- Areas of strength
- Creative
- Art
- Drama
- Music
- DT
- Learn best in a practical way.
- Good at 'trouble shooting'
- Good at developing strategies
- How writing can appear.
- Useful fonts for text
- Tahoma
- Arial
- Verdana
- Comic Sans
- Calibri
- Century Gothic
- Trebuchet