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Dyslexia

By Rachel Nijsink, Stephanie van Dalfzen & Henrieke van Werven

28-05-2020 

What is dyslexia?

What is it like to live with dyslexia?

Problems in the classroom

- Good and bad days

- Hypersensitivity

- The ability to surprise

- Motivational problems

- Fear of failure

- Low self-esteem

- Avoiding new, unpredictable situations

- Poor short-term memory

- Lack of time-awareness and time management

- Difficulty maintaining focus

In the foreign language classroom

- Intricate code breaking

- Confusing words and sounds

- Misspelling words, phonemic spelling

Students might run into the following
specific problems in the classroom: 

- Read inaccurately 

- Have problems with spelling: especially getting tied up in long words 

- Confuse places, times, dates 

- Having difficulties to plan and write longer texts like essays 

- Having difficulties remembering formulas 

- Needing instructions to be repeated

- Suffer poor confidence and a low self-esteem 

This can lead to students showing the following behaviors: 

- Forgetting (which) books to bring to class

- Difficulty organizing life with and around a timetable

- Misunderstanding complex instructions

- Problems keeping up with note-taking

- Actively avoiding hard tasks whenever possible:

- Student feeling strained, tired and irritable, unmotivated, distracted

- Student may complain of stomach or headaches

- Challenging behaviors in the classroom 

More postivive behaviors
in the classroom:

           

                  - Solving puzzles 

                  - Seeing the bigger picture, being able to visualize images  

                  - Coming up with creative solutions 

Helping the dyslectic student in the classroom

No cure

Dyslectic students can be helped by being taught certain strategies and techniques. 

 Holistic approach  

Strengths & weaknesses, motivations  

(Technical) aids:
test time, environment, reading texts out loud and visualizing instructions.

Dyslectic students learn best from teachers when: 

- They understand them and spend time helping them

- They are prepared to repeat instructions and are happy to answer questions and smile when they ask for help.

- They proactively check on them when instructing or working on tasks

- They try to visualize instructions with pictures or writing things down clearly or recording instructions for them to listen to later.

- They teach the basic information, try not to ramble on about other things