dyslexia: how to make the most of what you've got to be the best that you can be

Presented by:

Darla and Kaila Hatton

info@dyslexiafacts.net

The Family Café 11th Annual Conference

June 5, 2009

Who Are We?

• Family History

• Early Reading Strategies

• Info Overload– Needle Haystack– Shorten Learning

Curve

• What does that mean• What it doesn’t mean• Out of Box (Envelopes*)

*most quotes from www.powerofdyslexia.com

• Approriate Instruction

– Interventions– Remediation– Accommodations– Assistive Technology

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Problem

Reading Components

• Phonemic Awareness• Phonics• Fluency• Vocabulary• Comprehension

“Dyslexia is a weakness in a sea of strengths.”Sally Shaywitz, M.D

“The strengths are as important to find and address as the deficits….All too often we focus on the deficit and not the asset, and we really need to focus on that as well.“

E. Emmerson Dickman, J.D., Former President of IDA

Ride horses Hanging out with friends Dog Training

Good News

Ninety percent (90%) of children with reading difficulties will achieve grade level in reading if they receive help by the first grade.”

www.schwablearning.org/articles.aspx?r=349

“Is it a Reading Disorder or Developmental Delay”, by Susan Hall

Sobering News

If help is given in fourth grade, rather than in late kindergarten, it takes four times as long to improve the same skills by the same amount.

www.schwablearning.org/articles.aspx?r=349

“Is it a Reading Disorder or Developmental Delay”, by Susan Hall

The Potential

Pre-K Screening Resource

Get Ready to Readwww.getreadytoread.org

Symptoms Listing for Children & Adults

Bright Solutions for Dyslexiahttp://www.dys-add.com/symptoms.html

Adult Screening ResourcesWashington State Screening Tool (Learning Needs Screening) http://www.ncwd-youth.info/assets/guides/assessment/sample_forms/learning_needs_screening_tool_word.doc

http://www.onestops.info/pdf/LearningNeedsTool.pdf

Empire State Screening Tool

http://www.ldaofwny.org/ess_screening.htm

Web Sites

• Bright Solutions for Dyslexia– www.brightsolutions.us

• SchwabLearning– www.schwablearning.org

• LD Online– www.ldonline.org

Additional Web Sites

• Misunderstood Minds– www.pbs.org/wgbh/misunderstoodminds

• International Dyslexia Association– www.interdys.org

Additional Web Sites

• National Center for Learning Disabilities– www.ncld.org

• RTI Action Network– www.rtinetwork.com

• Great Schools– www.greatschools.net

Recommended Must Reads

What Worked

• Multisensory (OG and LIPS)– Three senses– Systematic– Direct / Explicit– Diagnostic– Synthetic

What Worked For Us

• Closed Caption TV

• Help Child Realize/Develop Strengths

• Develop an Action Plan

• Teach Self Advocacy

• Technology / Accommodations

Florida AT Resources

• Assistive Technology Industry Association– www.atia.org

• FETC – www.fetc.org

Additional Resouces

• Reading for the Blind and Dyslexic– www.rfbd.org

• Bookshare– www.bookshare.org

• FCRR– www.fcrr.org

Spell Checkers

• Ginger*– www.gingersoftware.com

• Ghotit*– www.ghotit.com

*requires internet connection to run

Kurzweil http://www.kurzweiledu.com/k3000demo/k3000demo20.html

Dragon http://www.nuance.com/talk

GoBinder www.gobinder.com/NoteTakingTutorial.aspx

OneNote http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/onenote/HA101686341033.aspx

Thanks for coming!