October is Dyslexia Awareness Month! Thank you Park City Education Foundation for highlighting the Dyslexia Initiative in your monthly update!
What One Student Wishes Teachers Knew About Dyslexia
Watch this segment of Good Things Utah featuring Decoding Dyslexia – UT‘s Karee Atkinson and YES! Program‘s Ava speaking about dyslexia. This is good to share with your kids, too!
Dyslexia Awareness – 2016 Public Service Announcement
Watch and share this Public Service Announcement made by DD-UT, in conjunction with Reading Horizons! It also features Utah’s YES! Ambassadors!
11 Children’s Books That Help Kids Understand Learning Disabilities
Another good list of books to help young students better understand learning disabilities.
How Various Learning and Attention Issues Can Cause Trouble With Spelling
“Learning to spell may be even harder than learning to read for some kids with dyslexia.” Yet, spelling difficulties are not limited to dyslexia and this article also reviews common difficulties due to dysgraphia, ADHD, Auditory Processing Disorder and Visual Processing Issues.
Understanding Dyslexia and the Reading Brain in Kids
Excellent article from October 2015.
EXCERPT:
This kind of anxiety and frustration can be largely avoided, said Wolf, who is also director of the Center for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University and author of “Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain.” She and colleague Martha Denckla designed a simple test to quickly know whether there is a problem in the reading circuit very early on, as early as kindergarten or first grade. Called the RAN/RAS test (Rapid Automatized Naming/Rapid Alternating Stimulus), students are timed on how fast they can name letters, numbers, colors and objects.
RAN/RAS or a comparable evaluation is one of the single best predictors that there’s something different in how the brain is putting together letters with their name, which is like a mini-version of the later reading circuit. While RAN/RAS cannot diagnose a reading problem, it does provide educators with a red flag, suggesting that students may need further evaluation.
IMSE Comprehensive Orton-Gillingham Training
This 5 day training course is being offered in Salt Lake City from December 5 – 9, 2016.
Pre-K To Prison Pipeline: A Case For Orton Gillingham!
This September 2015 article provides strong reasoning for using an OG approach in all classrooms.
“Students using memorization as their main source to learn sight words will have a strong bank of words to use and it will help them achieve some level of reading fluency. However as they matriculate through elementary school their ability to decode multisyllabic words poses a significant challenge especially during test time.”
Most Reading Difficulties Can Be Resolved or Diminished
Nice infographic that demonstrates the importance of using Structured Literacy to teach all students.
Understanding Dyslexia: The Intersection of Scientific Research & Education
Watch the full U.S. Senate Committee Hearing that took place on May 10th.
How Does the Magic Happen? Preparing America’s Teachers to Meet the Needs of Students with Dyslexia
Ensuring teachers are prepared to address the needs of dyslexic students will require changes to teacher training for those studying to become teachers and specialized professional development for those teachers already in classrooms.
Filmmaker James Redford on his famous father and dyslexia documentary
“We had him evaluated and the diagnosis was more liberating than we thought it would be, particularly for our son. The minute we heard the word there was a sigh of, ‘OK, at least we know what it is.’ As parents, it’s our firm belief that assessment, diagnosis, open discussion and owning it is important.” – James Redford speaking about his son
The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia is available at our local library.
What is Dyslexia?
This is the first in a series of online videos by expert, Susan Barton.
Ear Readers Completed Over 1 million Pages in Great Reading Games!
What a fantastic accomplishment by these students!
Dyslexia ORBIDA Panel Students
Powerful video out of Oregon’s branch of the IDA.