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Severe Dyslexia Reading [Premium]

Severe Dyslexia Reading [Premium]

by | Dec 15, 2023 | , , , , ,

Q: My daughter is severely dyslexic and is having trouble making progress reading. She is homeschooled. How can I help? A: Ideally, the best person to provide specific information about your student’s dyslexia is the professional who performed a comprehensive assessment. The following information is not specific to your daughter, but more general information in the hopes some of it may be helpful to you. Many severely dyslexic children have trouble perceiving or remembering sounds, sound-letter associations, or the letters that comprise the different spellings of words. If a student has significant working memory limitations, she or he may also have to learn in little bits which may add to the time words are mastered. RE-LEARNING AGAIN AND AGAIN If the problem is that a […]

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Um.. Trouble Finding the Right Words [Premium]

Um.. Trouble Finding the Right Words [Premium]

by | Dec 13, 2023 | , , , , , , ,

A young filmmaker, Lauren, interviewed for our movie shared that she had trouble putting her ideas into words. After the camera had shut off, I told her that many people over the years shared exactly the same thing. Lauren shared that when she reads a book, she gets vivid images of characters, events, and places. When she plans out a movie, she can visualize everything. We know that not everyone has that ability – and her visualization strengths are ideal for what she does today – make films. But there is considerable evidence that what might make you strong at generating pictures and other sensory images, may be balanced by weaker or at least more effortful generation of words. When we surveyed dyslexic and non-dyslexic […]

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Teaching Math with Visual Models [Premium]

Teaching Math with Visual Models [Premium]

by | Dec 13, 2023 | , , ,

One way to teach to students’ strengths is to build on nonverbal reasoning and experimential – multisensory learning strengths in math. What does that mean? It means not being in a hurry to have students work through math problems before a strong foundational understanding and technical math meanings are established, and building on math reasoning before diving into math problem-solving involving symbols and technical language. Room to Discover has an excellent post on Visual Models. With five representations of mathematical ideas, why is there so much focus on verbal and symbolic work?     The creator of Room to Discover also runs workshops and publishes manipulatives and other resources to his store. The Room to Discover site focuses on graphic representations – but a related […]

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Asynchronous Development [Premium]

Asynchronous Development [Premium]

by | Dec 10, 2023 | , , , , ,

Asynchronous development refers to an unevenness in development which may include wide differences in various aspects of cognition, physical development, and emotional development. The unevenness in these different aspects of development can create paradoxes (being ahead in some abilities as well as behind) and opportunities as well as stress. Asynchronous development was first introduced in the academic and educational literature in the context of gifted children – children who showed wide discrepancies between strengths and weaknesses and who were sometimes referred to as being “twice exceptional”.     In the figure below, an example of score variations is seen in a gifted student with dyslexia. Where the standard scaled score for age is 100, this student had strengths in verbal comprehension with a score of […]

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Should I Help with Homework? [Premium]

Should I Help with Homework? [Premium]

by | Dec 7, 2023 | , , , , , , , ,

“His mother had read everything to him and in medical school his wife was reading aloud all books and references…there was some opposition to his continuance in medical school on the part of the dean and one other faculty member, but the opposition subsided… After his graduation a report came from a distant medical school hospital stating that this man was the best intern they had had for some time. He passed his American boards in internal medicine and became the head of a group practice clinic in a large city…” — Lloyd Thompson, Reading Disability Should you help with homework? The answer is YES. There is a qualifier on that – you should help but only to the point that you’re helping your student […]

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Discovering Strengths [Premium]

Discovering Strengths [Premium]

by | Nov 11, 2023 | , , ,

How do I develop my strengths? How do I develop my strengths in my kids? We get asked these two questions a lot. It does seem that if you ask people how they found their careers or life’s passions there are twists and turns and there seem to be serendipitous events that make a person take one path vs. the other. But it probably is a good idea to have more conscious thought involved with careers or it may be more likely that you (or your child) could end up in an unsatisfying and poorly fitting career.     HOW DO MIND STRENGTHS FIT INTO THIS PICTURE? Dyslexic MIND strengths were the result of surveying this community and comparing them to non-dyslexics. It doesn’t mean […]

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Helping Your Student with Intensity [Premium]

Helping Your Student with Intensity [Premium]

by | Nov 8, 2023 | , , , , ,

“Challenging behavior is just a signal, the fever, the means by which the kid is communicating that he or she is having difficulty meeting an expectation. “ — Ross Greene, The Explosive Child The difference between the experience of one student and his or her dyslexia can vary a great deal depending on temperament. In psychology, temperament refers to consistent differences in emotional disposition and behavior that are biologically-based and relatively consistent over time. Temperament is part of a person’s personality, which also includes intelligence, humor, interests, and talents. Among the various temperamental differences, certain “difficult temperamental traits” may make some school experiences (like remediation or pull-out) difficult to accept. Examples of difficult temperamental traits include: negative responses to new people or situations, slowness to […]

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Redefining Dyslexia [Premium]

Redefining Dyslexia [Premium]

by | Nov 6, 2023 | , , , , , ,

In the past year, there have been some remarkable papers published in the field of dyslexia. By and large, the changes seem to be good news and more inclusive of the diverse ways that dyslexia presents – including gifted individuals with dyslexia. But change is likely to be messy – and schools and educational and research groups are likely to different and present different information to students and their families. THE PENDULUM SWINGS AGAIN ON DISCREPANCY Although the earliest professional accounts about dyslexia recognized the unexpected connection of high intelligence with difficulties in reading, writing, and spelling, the dyslexia field has been involved in many warring opinions about whether cognitive tests are worthwhile. Without pointing fingers, many researchers and educational leaders over the years questioned […]

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Q: What If My Professor Rejects My Accommodations Request? [Premium]

Q: What If My Professor Rejects My Accommodations Request? [Premium]

by | Oct 9, 2023 | , , , ,

Q: WHAT IF MY PROFESSOR REJECTS MY ACCOMMODATION REQUEST? A: You haven’t said what accommodation you are seeking, but the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA requires that postsecondary institutions must provide “reasonable accommodations” to participate in courses, programs, and activities. From the American Psychological Association: “These accommodations can be in the form of academic adjustments or modifications such as extended time for test taking or completing course work; substitution of specific courses to meet degree requirements; modification of test taking or performance evaluations so as not to discriminate against a person’s sensory, speaking or motor impairments, unless that is what is being tested.     Accommodations can also take the shape of auxiliary aids and services such as qualified sign language interpreters, note takers, […]

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Understanding Dyslexia as an Adult [Premium]

Understanding Dyslexia as an Adult [Premium]

by | Oct 9, 2023 | , , , , , , , ,

When I listened to music, I used to get really frustrated because I could never understand the words of a song that I had just heard for the first time… then I reread my report: “Isla struggles with auditory processing.” Now, I understand…that makes a lot of sense, something that I hadn’t thought about, which is why I think it’s so important.” – Isla McDade-Brown When Dr. Brock Eide was in England, he met up with young filmmaker Isla McDade-Brown from the University of York who was filming a documentary for her final Film and Television dissertation. Isla was identified with dyslexia at the age of eight, but now as a final year college student, she was reading her assessment as an adult and reflecting […]

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Understanding Severe Dyslexia [Premium]

Understanding Severe Dyslexia [Premium]

by | Sep 20, 2023 | ,

What is Severe Dyslexia? Although almost every comprehensive talks about dyslexia varying severity (mild, moderate, severe), but surprisingly little research has been conducted about successfully intervening for children and adults with severe dyslexia, although there are signs that things are beginning to change. Much of current dyslexia legislation efforts are directed at trying to include “phonological processing” into definitions of dyslexia or teacher training programs, however, for dyslexia is much more than that, and a recent study of Tier 3 students in RTI (Response to Intervention) showed that intensive Tier 3 intervention consisting of daily and smaller group instruction involving “explicit, teacher-directed instruction in phonemic awareness and phonics, with the opportunity to apply skills in connected text with teacher feedback” showed “disappointing outcomes of the […]

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The Letter – Getting a Good Start to the School Year [Premium]

The Letter – Getting a Good Start to the School Year [Premium]

by | Sep 16, 2023 | ,

  If you’re the parent of a student with significant academic challenges due to dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia, crafting a letter is a familiar ritual.   THE GOALS The big picture goals are for your student to have a good year – to enjoy being at school, to be developing in all areas, and to have good relationships with teachers, the school in general, and friends. But all students don’t start the school year on the same footing. If your student is below grade level in reading and is trying to overcome anxiety and/or feelings of failure, she or he may be bringing that to school before the first bell rings. THE CHALLENGE The challenge is that many teachers may not have had training in […]

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