All information taken from Shire Learning Strategies and no, I'm not paid to review the website. I found what the author wrote about dyslexia to be fascinating and interesting. Took an interest to dyslexia because my sister is a psychologist with the Dyslexic Association of Singapore. You can read her blog on special learning needs on Joys of Learning.
To be honest, I've never heard of dyslexia until very much later in life, after I was done with all my formal education. Don't even remember the first time I heard about it. But with increased awareness, more children are able to receive help earlier.
People with dyslexia are called dyslexics. They have difficulties in reading, writing and spelling, especially in languages that have "more complicated orthographic, phonological and / or grammatical systems".
However, they are very gifted in thinking in pictures. Shire Learning Strategies describes dyslexia as a gift :
"Dyslexia is like a coin and as such, has two sides. On one side is the difficulties experienced with learning. The other side is the undoubted gift of enhanced picture thinking.
This gift enables us to picture things with great speed and clarity. It allows us to experience our imagination as though it were real.
The gift of dyslexia is the gift of Mastery. Dyslexics learn best when we are using our creative talents. Through hands-on experiential learning we can master concepts that become part of us – we know it because we have created the concept in the real world. This is true mastery."
While dyslexia is a learning disability, it does not mean that there is no hope for dyslexics. Dyslexics face difficulties with reading and writing, but their visual spatial abilities and oral skills can be strong. For the teacher with a dyslexic student, try a multi-sensory approach to teaching. Instead of just writing and reading from texts, include some picture and tactile activities to stimulate and help the dyslexic child in learning.
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