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What is Dyslexia?

According to the International Dyslexia Association (IDA), dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin.  It is characterized by:

  • Difficulty with accurate/fluent word recognition
  • Poor Spelling
  • Poor Decoding
  • Reduced Comprehension
  • Impeding Vocabulary Growth
  • Impeding Background/World Knowledge

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What Are "Red Flags" for Dyslexia?

  • Delays in speech and language
  • Confusion with early concepts: before/after, left/right
  • Difficulty learning the alphabet, nursery rhymes, and songs
  • Difficulty learning letter names and sounds, shapes, numbers
  • Difficulty identifying and generating rhymes and manipulating sounds in words 
  • Misreading/Omitting "little words" 
  • Slow, laborious reading; guessing at longer words
  • Poor reading comprehension 
  • Difficulty Spelling
  • Family History 

Dyslexia Intervention

Early Literacy Skills

Foundational reading skills include phonological awareness and letter-sound knowledge.   All students facing difficulty reading, regardless of age, should be screened for these foundational skills.  Intervention includes explicit, multi-sensory teaching of the following:

  • Letter naming and letter-sound correspondence
  • Letter formation (handwriting) 
  • Early print awarness with books
  • Identifying syllables in words
  • Identifying and manipulating sounds in words
  • Unblending/Segmenting Sounds to make or pull apart words
  • Rhyming
  • Vocabulary Development

School Age Reading

As children progress in school, the demands of reading continue to increase.  Children as young as kindergarten are appropriate for implicit and systematic instruction in reading, spelling, and handwriting.  Students will improve in:

  • Decoding and Segmenting words for more fluent reading
  • Sound-Symbol association
  • 6 syllable types in English
  • Rules of writing and spelling
  • Grammar
  • Reading Comprehension
  • Vocabulary Development
  • Spelling
  • Handwriting/Dysgraphia
  • Meta-cognitive Strategies for comprehension

Reading Comprehension

The ultimate goal of reading is comprehension.  Comprehension is often best met through fluent, accurate reading, as well as understanding the prosody of the text and the meaning of the words they read.  Students will not only work on decoding words and increasing their rapid retrieval of text, but will have unique opportunities to increase their vocabulary, world knowledge, and ability to analyze text through context clues and meta-cognitive strategies to support comprehension. 

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