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Education During the Pandemic: Preparing for the Unpreparable [Premium]

Education During the Pandemic: Preparing for the Unpreparable [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Feb 11, 2022 | Being Dyslexic, College, dyslexia, Education, Learning, Parents, Premium, Premium Content, School

As I am writing this, omicron cases have not reached their peak in the US, and calls for schools to close again because of the extreme contagiousness of this variant. How do parents, teachers, and tutors prepare for another unpredictable year? ONE STUDENT AT A TIME If pandemic education has told us anything thus far, it’s that students will tell us what they need as much as any best laid plans. No matter what you decided for your students for the past year, reviewing what worked and what didn’t can be valuable going forward. If you have several children, you might have seen something work for one student, but not another. As before, the goals should be focusing on reasonable fits and not inflexible […]

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Eugene Matusov on Teaching and Motivation [Premium]

Eugene Matusov on Teaching and Motivation [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Nov 9, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Learning, Neurodiversity, Premium, Premium Content, Psychology, School, Social and Emotional, Teaching

I recently discovered Eugene Matusov’s writings on motivation and agency. He is a professor at the University of Delaware and he is also dyslexic. I found it interesting that he ended up choosing a career teaching other teachers and yet his early years seem to be fairly traumatic in school. He had some very bad learning experiences, but also good ones, and it’s clear that today, he remembers the good teachers that impacted his life and that the choices he made in his own career were influenced as much by the negative experiences as the positives. One negative experience that was shared involved a writing assignment that many of us are all-too-familiar with – “What I Did Over Summer Vacation.” Listen to Eugene tell […]

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Auditory Processing and Remote and Hybrid Learning

Auditory Processing and Remote and Hybrid Learning

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Oct 23, 2021 | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Education, Modifications, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content, School, Strategies, Teaching

“Children with dyslexia often exhibit increased variability in sensory and cognitive aspects of hearing relative to typically developing peers.” – Hornickel et al., 2012 PNAS There is a long research history establishing auditory processing difficulties among children and adults who are dyslexic. What may be confusing to non-scientific people is that auditory processing is not simply “hearing”. It relates to the complex networks in the brain that interpret what sounds are heard.

Auditory processing difficulties in dyslexic people don’t present with abnormalities on simple screening hearing tests; instead, the difficulties present in tests that examine the effect of listening over background noise, for instance, or processing of rapid sounds. The reason it’s important to be aware of this is that auditory processing […]

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My Pandemic Hack for Classes

My Pandemic Hack for Classes

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Oct 23, 2021 | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, creativity, dyslexia, Learning, Modifications, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content, School, Strategies, Teachers, Teaching

Shelley Wear, a long-time volunteer on our Dyslexic Advantage editorial team shared these pandemic hacks for her classroom. Thanks Shelley! “The struggle is real to make sure students understand what you are saying with a mask on. I purchased a personal amplifier (small box with microphone headset) and it has been a game changer for my classroom. Students are much more attentive and I believe it has really helped. I am also using a multisensory approach to decoding, teaching Visual Phonics. The paras have overheard students talking about how fun it is when kids are in the hallways and think no one is listening. I am relieved, because I have limited access to middle school materials to teach decoding and a large percentage of my […]

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The Dyslexia Crisis in Schools

The Dyslexia Crisis in Schools

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Sep 26, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, College, dyslexia, Education, Learning, Neurodiversity, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content, School

The house is on fire. There is a conflagration of factors coming together that are affecting dyslexic students in public school beyond COVID. COVID certainly has its share of blame and breaking the camel’s back when it comes to providing essential services to dyslexic students. If you have a student in public schools now, get informed and be prepared to advocate and supplement your student’s education if necessary. The San Francisco Examiner recently discussed the devastating consequences for dyslexic students in the midst of the pandemic.

COVID CLASSROOMS – HARD FOR STUDENTS TO HEAR AND SEE With the requirement to distance and wear a mask, it is harder than ever for dyslexic students (who often have auditory, visual and motor imitation difficulties) […]

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Helping With Homework If You’re Not A Wiz Yourself [Premium]

Helping With Homework If You’re Not A Wiz Yourself [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Sep 12, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Education, Learning, Math, Neurodiversity, Parents, Premium Content, School, Strategies

These are strange times and even if you’re not accustomed to helping with homework (including different types of homework), it may help a lot if you can help. Even pre-pandemic, when parents were surveyed about their helping with homework and trouble lending help, about 50% said they had difficulty… so you’re not alone. There are healthy debates about whether you as a parent should help with homework…and that doesn’t even consider whether a child might be dyslexic, dysgraphic, or dyscalculic, or all three. Helping with homework is not a good idea if the student doesn’t learn how to do the work. Now if a student is drowning, and no one is around to help, then a little help might not seem to be a terrible […]

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Education Where Things Are Now & Looking Ahead To Fall Semester [Premium]

Education Where Things Are Now & Looking Ahead To Fall Semester [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Jul 4, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, College, dyslexia, Education, Neurodiversity, Premium, Premium Content, School, Testing

As expected, many students have experienced learning loss because of school changes related to the pandemic. As new cases fall and immunizations rise, school plans begin to take shape. Although some educational reports have tried to take a rosy picture of the pandemic’s effect on education, learning loss appears to be worldwide with the widest losses among lower socioeconomic groups, Blacks and Hispanics, and students with disabilities. The research firm McKinsey & Company found that learning loss during the pandemic average 6.8 months for K-12 students. In order to make up for losses, the report recommended at minimum 50 hours of targeted instruction over a two week period. Many states put waivers on dyslexia screening, teacher training, and intervention requirements due to […]

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Surviving and Thriving in Hybrid Classrooms

Surviving and Thriving in Hybrid Classrooms

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | May 16, 2021 | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Education, Learning, Modifications, Resources, School, Teachers, Teaching

With the rise in vaccinations, many schools have opened with a hybrid schedule which has some pros and cons for dyslexic students. ONLINE ASSIGNMENTS - GROUP PARTICIPATION and AUDIO The reduction in written assignments since of the start of the pandemic has...

Homeschooling or Modified Schooling?

Homeschooling or Modified Schooling?

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | May 16, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, Curriculum, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Education, IEP, Learning, Modifications, Parents, School, Teaching

This is an older post from when students were heading back to school after the pandemic. We'll keep it up in case it's helpful for other families considering homeschooling or modified schooling First off, it's best to be aware that there is rarely a perfect...

Not Falling Behind in MATH

Not Falling Behind in MATH

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Mar 19, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, Dyscalculia, dyslexia, Education, Learning, Math, Modifications, School, Strategies, Teaching

"The studies vary in how severe they gauge the so-called “COVID slide” to be, but all of them found on average, students would lose more ground in math than in reading. Three studies based on NWEA data predicted students could learn half or up to a full year less math...

Crisis Schooling: The Dyslexia Edition [Premium]

Crisis Schooling: The Dyslexia Edition [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Nov 4, 2020 | dyslexia, Education, Premium, Premium Content, School

This older article was written during the pandemic. We’ve kept it up here in case it still has helpful information. Are you going to be homeschooling or perhaps willing to give traditional school a try under the new rules? Teacher mom blogger Heather Ann said this: “You are NOT homeschooling. You are CRISIS schooling. There is a huge difference. You may choose to homeschool after this, but this is not what homeschooling looks like, not even remotely.” I completely agree. If you are schooling, no matter what form, you are crisis schooling and not homeschooling or traditional schooling. Even with all of the protections in place, something is likely to go wrong, whether its activities that can’t be done, or unexpected quarantines because of someone […]

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How to Avoid Turning into a Zombie with Remote Learning

How to Avoid Turning into a Zombie with Remote Learning

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Sep 29, 2020 | dyslexia, Education, Parents, School, Teaching

If you are finding that you or your students are remote learning, not out of choice, but because of the school changes or the pandemic in general, it's still possible to resist having your upcoming school year turn into zombie learning. When our son took an online...

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