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What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley

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Dyslexia affects up to 1 in 5 people, but the experience of dyslexia isn't always the same. This difficulty in processing language exists along a spectrum -- one that doesn't necessarily fit with labels like "normal" and "defective." Kelli Sandman-Hurley urges us to think again about dyslexic brain function and to celebrate the neurodiversity of the human brain.

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Dr. Sally Shaywitz wrote, "Dyslexic children...go un-identified, un-remediated and un-accommodated with great harm to the children..."

How can the education community close this gap?

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Avatar for Zoe Foreman
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I feel if teachers and parents were more aware of the signs of dyslexia being present in a child, these children would not go un-identified and un-accommodated as teachers and staff in schools would be trained on how to acknowledge these signs and aid these students in areas they might feel that they are struggling in and perhaps even provide resources for these children. After-school clubs or even in-school interventions to aid the students to have a better academic experience. I know when I was in elementary, I had gotten taken out of some of my classes to have some lessons with a speech pathologist that helped me a lot with the struggles I faced in the classroom.


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Dyslexia occurs in children with normal vision and intelligence.
Symptoms include late talking, learning new words slowly, and a delay in learning to read.
Most children with dyslexia can succeed in school with tutoring or a specialized education program.


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we need to talk about dyslexia more louder by social media or build discussion about it in our environment. long time ago, when the information as fast as now, the teacher, parents, and environment judged the kids with dyslexia as stupid person. they are not understand how difficult the kids to recognize the words, its not because the kids lazy to study, but there is a problem in their brain. and we need to encouragement the parients, if the kids with difficult to recognize the word or to read, it is not because their kids stupid, but their kids is special and need more solution to help it.


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There may be not enough information to people in general to understand how it works and what we get frustrated when we have a child with dyslexia, so we need more education and tools to work with them as teachers or as parents.


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Your proposition is very interresting. Could you give me the best solutions to use in this case in your opinion ?


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I agree. Dyslexia is a complicated misunderstood condition. Teachers need more training in how to help these students.


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by telling people and letting teachers learn on how to identify people with dyslexia


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By providing teachers training and identifying students with dyslexia earlier in their education process.


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By providing students with proper interventionists and training teachers in these systematic teaching methods to help students receive intervention as soon as they are identified.


Avatar for ESTEBAN SALAZAR
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By making books that have some some to spell out and some color to decode the words that the person have dyslexia.

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