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Dyslexia and the Illusion of Inclusion – Making Education Fit the Child [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Accessibility, Accommodations, IEP, Premium, Premium Content, School

There’s a viral post circulating on the Internet from a Texas special education professor: “It’s OK to say dyslexia!” U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan tweeted shortly before his agency released guidance targeting the needs of the 2.5 million students with a learning disability. But while the government highlights the unique needs of students with learning disabilities, they are seemingly […]

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Teaching Common Core Academic Vocabulary to Students with Dyslexia [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Premium, Premium Content, Teachers

Academic Vocabulary are words that usually appear in higher educational settings or advanced texts rather than everyday conversational speech. Before the Common Core, most language arts programs had little emphasis on explicit teaching of academic words, but direct instruction is often very important for students with dyslexia because it contributes significantly to test performance and […]

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Beautiful Minds – What New Research Shows Dyslexia and Artists Have in Common [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Art, Brain, creativity, Dyslexic Advantages, Premium, Premium Content, Research

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Helping Severe Dyslexia – Part 2 Word Learning and Vocabulary [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Being Dyslexic, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Severe Dyslexia, Teachers

In our previous post on Severe Dyslexia, we talked about 6 steps required to read: 1. Seeing 2. Visual Recognition of Words 3. Matching Letters and Words to Sounds – Phonemic Awareness 4. Matching Words to Word Meaning 5. Saying Words 6. Comprehending Text In that post, we talked about how different readers may have difficulty with […]

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Executive Function: What Smart People Do Differently While Learning [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Education, Learning, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Social and Emotional, Teachers, Testing

When researchers compared high IQ and average test subjects in a learning paradigm, the results were surprising. In some areas high IQ individuals work less, as might be expected by the idea that higher IQ people have more efficient brains for learning tasks, but in other areas, high IQ brains were working harder. When were […]

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How Dyslexia Changes at Different Ages [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Assessment, Being Dyslexic, Education, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Stealth Dyslexia, Writing

With all of the advances in our understanding of early intervention, dyslexia in older students and young adults often gets short shrift. The paper by Dr. Kathleen Niesen and colleagues has some interesting findings that have important points for identification, accommodations, and understanding of both the challenges and strengths of adolescents and young adults with dyslexia. […]

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Strategies for Addressing Math Mistakes [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Dyscalculia, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Math, Premium, Premium Content, Strategies

Working memory mistakes in math include mistakes such as losing place in problems, errors due to missed steps or key information, and calculation errors like near-misses or reversed digits, directional errors, or procedural errors like errors of grouping or carrying. In the video below, teacher Leah Alcala shares how she decided to change how she […]

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The Moral Harm of Dyslexia Unawareness

by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, Premium, Premium Content, Social and Emotional

Primum non nocere. - Latin Saying (First, do no harm) The Latin Saying Primum non-nocere may not have originated with Hippocrates, however the advice is also like a laser beam focused on the greatest harm that comes from dyslexia unawareness. A few days ago, a...

[PREMIUM] How to Talk About Dyslexia in Interviews

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Premium, Premium Content, Work

Although it’s not required to disclose one’s dyslexia in job interviews, many people make decisions to do so. Some want to be assured that they are joining a workplace that is welcoming to dyslexic employees. Others feel as if they want to be open with their prospective employer, while others choose to disclose for other […]

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MATH: The Problem with Word Problems [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | dyslexia, Math, Premium, Premium Content, Teaching

For dyslexic students, the problem with word problems isn’t just the fact that they have to be read without error – but that there are many aspects of the language commonly found in word problems that will frustrate many dyslexic students if they aren’t explicitly taught where confusions arise. Here are just a few language-based […]

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[PREMIUM] What Wild Guesses are Telling You on Read Aloud

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Premium, Premium Content

After initial success with the basics of decoding, students may begin to flatten out in their progress as the words and sentences get longer and more complex. Many reading programs focus on monosyllabic words when teaching phonics, but the problem is by the 5th grade, more than 90% of new words are polysyllabic… and more […]

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Breaking Research : Dyslexia in Adolescents and Adults [Premium]

by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Assessment, Being Dyslexic, Dyslexic Advantages, Education, MIND strengths, N Strengths, Premium, Premium Content, Professionals, Psychology, Reading, Stealth Dyslexia

An important paper was published this month from the University of Washington, entitled “Evidence-Based Reading and Writing Assessment for Dyslexia in Adolescents and Young Adults.” The paper is especially important guiding testing professionals who assess teens and adults for dyslexia or see gifted or twice-exceptional students. This paper also takes a more systematic look at the […]

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