My child was just diagnosed with dyslexia. Now what?
After being diagnosed as dyslexic, you can feel many different emotions, including being overwhelmed, stressed and nervous. The range of emotions occurs as you don't know what could happen, how it might change things in your life and how others would react.
What Do I Do After My Child is Diagnosed with Dyslexia
Make your learning process as active as possible (Active learning, active recall) Use Spaced repetition to get information into your longterm memory Use apps with built-in Spaced repetition like the Anki app (AnkiApp) Utilize audio files to enhance your learning especially of you are dyslexic Be open about your ...
Types of Evidence-Based Interventions
A structured literacy approach to reading instruction is considered the gold standard treatment for dyslexia. At home, read both to and with your child every day. It will reinforce skills they learn at school and expand their vocabulary, which helps with reading, too.
Understanding and supporting individuals with Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, and Dyspraxia is essential for fostering an inclusive and effective learning environment. These disorders can also coincide with other conditions such as ADHD and Autism, requiring a comprehensive approach.
Spelling Accommodations
Traditional ways of teaching spelling don't work with dyslexic students. While we teach them spelling in a different way, we ask that you: Do not grade spelling tests and do not let student spend hours practicing spelling.
The recommended seven hands-on learning strategies that can promote learning and support for struggling readers during literacy instruction include Build the Words, Feel the Words, Whole Body Letters, Five Finger Retell, Sight Word BINGO, Elkonin Boxes, and Word Swat. Young children learn in a variety of sensory ways.
People with dyslexia have the ability to see how things connect to form complex systems, and to identify similarities among multiple things. Such strengths are likely to be of particular significance for fields like science and mathematics, where pictures are key.
Both mothers and fathers can pass dyslexia on to their children if either parent has it. There is roughly a 50% – 60% chance of a child developing dyslexia if one of their parents has it.
Research by the University of Strathclyde has found that people with dyslexia are much better at being curious and exploring new ideas and more likely to be found in careers where this is an advantage, such as art, media, architecture, creativity, engineering and inventing things!
Dyslexia assessments. If there are still concerns about your child's progress after they have received additional teaching and support, it may be a good idea to have a dyslexia diagnostic assessment. This can be carried out by an educational psychologist or an appropriately qualified specialist dyslexia teacher.
5 things not to say to your child about dyslexia
There are four types of dyslexia in common those are; Phonological dyslexia, surface dyslexia, rapid naming deficit, and double deficit dyslexia.
Disability Living Allowance. You may be entitled to receive a benefit from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) if your child has dyspraxia/attention deficit/dyslexia etc. DLA stands for Disability Living Allowance and it is not means tested, nor is it taxable.
Schools have a range of ways to help struggling readers catch up. There might be a period of extra phonics teaching or extra reading practice 1:1 or in a small group with a teacher or teaching assistant. Lots of research has shown that children can catch up and keep up when they get the right help.
A 3-2-1 prompt helps students structure their responses to a text, film, or lesson by asking them to describe three takeaways, two questions, and one thing they enjoyed. It provides an easy way for teachers to check for understanding and to gauge students' interest in a topic.
Appendix 5Types of interventions
The Many Strengths of Dyslexics
Bill Gates, one of the richest people in the world didn't let his dyslexia hold him back.
Words such as "to, it, of, what, have, from," etc. (sight words) are trigger words which must be mastered to eliminate the trigger for disorientation.
Famous actors like Johnny Depp, Keira Knightly and Orlando Bloom all have dyslexia. Pablo Picasso's teachers described him as “having difficulty differentiating the orientation of letters”.
According to UMHS, the following conditions can present similar symptoms and difficulties to dyslexia: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Executive Dysfunction. Memory Impairments.
Dyslexic people may have difficulty processing and remembering information they see and hear, which can affect learning and the acquisition of literacy skills. Dyslexia can also impact on other areas such as organisational skills. It is important to remember that there are positives to thinking differently.