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Struggles and Information
I would like to see this group become a central location for dyslexia information and advocate for dyslexia. Dyslexia is not just reading words backwards, it's the way the brain processes information. The IQ of a dyslexic is normally much higher than the average individual but the learning process needs to be different than normal teaching in today's society.
Dyslexia Misunderstood
Part One:
As a retired school teacher, I know each child is unique and a separate individual. Each learns differently, whether they are visual, auditory, sensory, etc. learners. When it comes to a dyslexic child, that child is not considered dyslexic in most states but is placed in a learning disability category.
Most states teach with the same reading/writing techniques and do not have the funds, manpower, or state laws to mandate teaching multisensory teaching techniques to children with dyslexia. Unless a parent is aware and understands the Individual Education Plan for their child, they cannot ask that these teaching techniques be added to the plan. With that said, the parent still may have an uphill battle as to the system not acknowledging / implementing the multisensory approaches for the child.
My niece, mother, and myself are dyslexic. My child has dyslexia but shh!, our state doesn't believe in the term dyslexia because they feel the word is a general term. She qualified for resources as her IQ was above average but tested below average in her learning ability with problems in receptive and expressive language. I was placed in a position of teacher/parent and felt frustrated with the fight I undertook to have my child tested, to have other techniques placed in my child's IEP, and to make sure the IEP was followed with my daughter. My thoughts were, "What about the parents that do not know the laws for disabilities or listen to what the school/teacher can not do rather than what by law has to be done?" Do many parents know that most state laws state, the parent can stipulate which teacher a child has for the following year or write a letter stipulating their child not take the national test given every year in the school? They can also stipulate how the tests are taken and in which room if written in the IEP. Parent can identify unmet educational objectives and can identify successful and unsuccessful strategies, accommodations, and interventions (or lack of these) designated to achieve program goals. Parents can offer insight on why the methods or programs were unsuccessful, and insist on trying your recommendations.
Dyslexia Misunderstood
Part Two
A few states have written legislation to require schools to address the instructional needs of students with dyslexia not just "learning disabled." The most recognized and one other states should follow is Texas, states could live by their example, they need to look at the state of Texas. Schools must test students early in their schooling if they feel there is a case of dyslexia. Students with dyslexia are placed in a classroom where the majority/all of the students have dyslexia. In this way the teacher can use the multisensory approach. Students self esteem aren't hindered and their commonalities amongst the students are more equal.
A 2000 research effort at the University of Washington concluded dyslexic reading problems were more related to the way children took in the sounds of the words they were trying to understand. The researchers used brain scans to measure how much energy was used in parts of the brain that processed sound.
Texas law states:
(1) "Dyslexia" means a disorder of constitutional origin manifested by a difficulty in learning to read, write, or spell, despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence, and sociocultural opportunity.
(2) "Related disorders" includes disorders similar to or related to dyslexia, such as developmental auditory imperceptions, dysgraphia, specific developmental dyslexia, developmental dysgraphia, and developmental spelling disability.
*****Federal Law states: (why do states not recognize the term dyslexia)******
Both IDEA and Federal Code (300.7) currently define specific learning disability as: "...a disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using language, spoken or written, that may manifest itself in imperfect ability to listen, think, write, read, write, spell, or to do mathematical calculations, including conditions such as perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia."
The only way our States/ Federal Government will mandate these laws is for parents to voice their concerns to their state representatives. This could be a start
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Bright Solutions for Dyslexia
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Dyslexia Research and Dyslexia News; dyslexic; teacher, teach, teaching.
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Ten Years of Research Shows The Brain Reads Sound By Sound: New help for dyslexia.
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SparkTop.org
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Center for Learning Differences
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The International Dyslexia Association
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Dyslexia Discussion
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miaponzo wrote...
I have lived with my two childrens' dyslexia for many years. It can be dealt with. :)
lizziebeth wrote...
Hi! I think this lens is very useful. Thank you for doing it! I do not have dyslexia, but I had other learning disabilities while growing up. I think it's a great thing to have help for learning disabilities, but there is a way to go to help all the students who need it. Thanks again.
paschar wrote...
in responce to moonstoneWhispser : it would be great if the educatational system would allow a dyslexic who has overcome and learned to addapt in order to help those in school who are having the same type of problems ( I still believe that it takes a dyslexic to teach a dyslexic ) professor S.D Waner aka Paschar
paschar wrote...
[in reply to MoonstoneWhipser] great thinkers in history: is what caught my attention and you are 100% correct , some of the greatest inventions of all time were created by those with dyslexia such as the light bulb, the car, the phone we talk on, the atomic bomb wasn`t big on my list but if not for E=Mc2 america would have lost the war,we think of things like this (outside the box) & I truly believe that the educational system should learn to see things our way and hire those who have been there and done that already (it takes another dyslexic to teach one) to help them overcome and learn faster, stop trying to conform us to the way they read and let us do our own thing. now if a font that is d looks like b & q looks like p then it is related to the way the brain processes data (but it is still precieved backwards) as if in a mirror and that`s that , books that are formated like this would solve a lot of the school systems educational problems. we thank you . paschar
paschar wrote...
A fellow dyslexic Quoted: if your going to toot you horn, toot it loud man . Robbin Wiliams so if this seems like spam , were sorry but it is the only way to get the info to those who want to know , I specialize in the research of strephosymbolia ( the perfect mirror image reader & writer ) most call it backwards writing but in the real sence it is because the inverted format is the only way people like myself can read, so with the use of a computer I have found a way to invert the desktop screen , www.planar.com has a graphics card, part # 944-0679-02 that supports the DVI-D mode , while in this mode the screen appears backwards to those of standard vision , to me it looks as if it is standard vision i have to look at the mirror view to precieve the normal view paschar on dyslexia at squidoo & the World Wide Web aka professor Stephen D. Waner Researcher , scientist , Inventor ..
MoonstoneWhipser wrote...
The problem isnt with the Dyslexic, or the slow learner or any of the other excuses used for a failing educational system. The problem is the educaitonal system. In the US and UK both systems cater for people who learn in an auditory fashion - which means they are styling their learning on 25% of the population and ignoring all the other learning methods. It is sad that even now people are discriminated against for learning in a different (not worse) way. In fact a dyslexic has many skills that are under utilised and rather than being labeled as learning disabled they should be simply taught a different way. The failure is not that of the student but the teacher!
Some of the great thinkers in history were dyslexic.
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