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Reading Disabilities NOT
Discover New Ways to Support Learning Differences
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Presented by
Deborah Blashaw Regina Powers
From Servite High School 2
Why Kids Don’t Read
Processing Problems
Lack of Interest
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Pop Quiz #1
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What percentage of America's prison inmates are illiterate?
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63%6
http://www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-american-adults-who-cant-read/
Prison Cell In Alcatraz Prison. Photograph.Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. 16 Jan 2014. http://quest.eb.com/images/105_1397481
What percentage of juvenile offenders have reading problems?
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85%8
Literacy Statistics Reference Information, U.S. Department of Education
Processing Problems
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Pop Quiz #2
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What percentage of children (3-17 years of age) have been diagnosed with ADHD?
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What percentage of boys were diagnosed with ADHD?
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Attention Deficit Disorder
Multiple Attentiveness=
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Multiple attentiveness may mean…
• Unable to focus• Overactive• Unable to control
behavior• or a combination
of these
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Is ADHD Under-diagnosed?
• 52% of children not diagnosed
• Girls are less likely than boys to have
condition recognized
• Only about 10 percent of adults
diagnosed and treated
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Not obvious Symptoms
Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless mistakes in schoolwork
Has difficulty keeping attention during tasks or play Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly Does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish
school work or chores and tasks Has problems organizing tasks and activities Avoids or dislikes tasks that require sustained mental
effort (such as schoolwork) Often loses toys, assignments, pencils, books, or tools
needed for tasks or activities Is easily distracted Is often forgetful in daily activities
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Gifts of Multiple Attentiveness (ADD/ADHD)
Flexibility
Creativity
EnthusiasmPerseverance 19
Reading Processing Disorders
Dyslexia
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Pop Quiz #3
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What percentage of the population is affected by dyslexia?
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Out of 10 students with dyslexia, how many will qualify for an IEP and support?
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1 out of 10
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Reading Processing Disorder - Dyslexia
• Brain does not properly recognize and process certain
symbols.
• Involves difficulties in acquiring and processing language
• Typically manifested by a lack of proficiency in reading,
spelling, and writing.
• High percentage of comorbidity with ADD and
dysgraphia
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The Gifts in Dyslexia
Problem-Solvers
Curious Intuitive and Insightful
Vivid Imagination
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Universal Design
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Target Interests
Reader’s Advisory
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Advocate
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Encourage Creativity
• Engage Imagination
• Visualize• Make a movie
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Train Students & Teachers!
• Demo parts of book
• Demo parts of website
• Hands-on• Don’t assume!
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Universal Design
In the Classroom
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Help them see the big picture.
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Build on background knowledge
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• Predict• Share• Discuss• Organize
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Take a breakevery15 to 20 minutes!
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• Encourage note-taking • Teach Cursive! • Teach typing!
*Anything you write you are 6 times more likely to remember.
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Take Notes!
Paper/Presentation Style Strategies
•Use lightly colored background
•Use matt paper to reduce glare
•Use good quality paper
•Avoid light text on a dark background
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Presentation Style Strategies
•Break text into short, readable units
•Use wide margins and headings
•Use at least 1.5 line spaces between lines of text
•Use bold print to highlight
•Highlight important text in a box or use color
•Keep text left justified with a ragged right edge
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Font Style Strategies
Use lower case letters
Sans S
erif
12, 14 size
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Accommodation Tools
A few examples
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iPad
Advantages & Set-up
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Recommended Apps
• OTB Notebook – for organizing ($4.99)• Notability – for organizing • Voice Dream – reading software• Noteshelf and LiveScribe Pen - write on paper
and have notes transferred to ipad ($40)
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1. Settings - Accessibility
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Bottom of page
- Settings
2. Speak Selection
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Speak Selection
3. Turn on features; set speed
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Speak Selection
Speaking Rate
Highlight
Words
PC
Advantages & Set-up
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Software
• iStudiez – For organizing (about $10)• Dragon Speech – Voice to command PC ($79)• OneNote – For organizing (free with MS)
• Sonocent - Note taking ($250)
• Luminant Audio Notes – Note taking($20)
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1. Control Panel
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2. Text to Speech
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3. Manipulate speed and voice
1. Pull-down Menu
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2. More Commands
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3. Add Speak to Tool Bar
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Bookshare.org
Bookshare /Kurzweil User Video
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Resource Highlight
Why are we here today?
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85 percent of juvenile offenders have reading problems.
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Prison Cell In Alcatraz Prison. Photograph.Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. http://quest.eb.com/images/105_1397481
Only 1 out of 10 students with dyslexia will qualify for an IEP and support.
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Prison Cell In Alcatraz Prison. Photograph.Encyclopædia Britannica ImageQuest. Web. http://quest.eb.com/images/105_1397481
What have we learned?
• Cracks in education system exist• Learning disabilities = learning differences• Universal Design helps EVERYONE• Train, train, train!
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And…
Advocate!• LP Books• Audio Books• Text-to-audio features• Learning to Keyboard• Portable Keyboards• Note-Taking Software• Speech-to-Text
Dictation Programs• Text-to-Speech
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Useful Websites• National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD)• K12 Reader• Yale Center for Dyslexia
• Learning Ally• Decoding Dyslexia• YouTube audio books• Kurzweil • Edmentum• LibriVox• Headstrong Nation • Landmark College
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