FACT VS MYTH
Some people with dyslexia look at letters and words on a page and perceive them as moving around.
What is fact?
One of the first clues that a child may have dyslexia is if he speaks later than expected. He might not begin putting words together to create phrases until after his second ________.
What is birthday?
Brain research has shown that readers with dyslexia use ________ neural pathways for reading than secure readers do.
A) different
B)the same
What is A (different)?
Oftentimes, having dyslexia creates a sense of ______ self-esteem- where a person feels as if he is not very capable of success in anything at all.
Sports greats such as boxer Muhammed Ali, football great Tim Tebow, and Olympic-medalist/swimmer Michael Phelps experienced similar woes early in life.
What is low (poor)?
When a student takes a lengthy multiple-choice test, she can experience anxiety-because it is so tough to process so much print. Maybe she is unable to read all the words.
If a teacher provides the accommodation of ______ the test aloud to her, that teacher will cut down the student's stress level and allow her to prove what she has learned.
What is reading?
If a child is demonstrating a lack of ability to recognize alphabet letter names, or make the sounds, a parent should wait until at least 3rd grade before having an assessment done. Chances are good that he will be OK.
What is a myth?
Sometimes, a person with dyslexia can hear a word correctly but have difficulty _______ it.
For example, spaghetti may come out as basghetti.
What is pronouncing (repeating; speaking; saying)?
Research suggests that, for a child with dyslexia, having him repeat a grade in school ______ advantageous.
A) is
B) is NOT
What is B (is NOT)?
Olivia Spencer is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winner who knows exactly what it feels like to have dyslexia. She was traumatized to have to read aloud in front of her classmates.
Olivia has written children's books to encourage them to follow their _______, despite having a learning difference.
What are dreams?
Some people view an accommodation as a crutch, when actually it can make all the difference between ______ or failure for a student with dyslexia.
What is success?
If a person has a high IQ (possibly even in the gifted range), he or she will NOT have dyslexia.
What is a myth?
Oftentimes, a person with dyslexia will read the first sound in a word correctly-and even the final one- but the letters/sounds in the _______ of the word get all jumbled up.
What is middle?
Non-disabled children need to see new learning an average of 10 times before it enters long term memory.
On average, how many times does an average intelligence, dyslexia child, in the general education or special education classroom, need to see new learning?
What is 100 times?
Then...it needs to be generalized into the regular classroom after being introduced and practiced out of the regular classroom environment.
Women such as Bella Thorne, Keira Knightley, and Jennifer Aniston have risen above their struggles, growing up with dyslexia, to become famous in the field of ________.
What is theater (acting)?
A child with dysgraphia has a very hard time writing quickly or clearly enough to keep up with his peers.
One form of technology that can help is a special pen with the capability of recording a teacher's instruction.
Later, when a student studies, he can use the pen to touch words or ____ he has jotted down on special paper. The teacher's voice will play back so that he can listen and add to his notes.
An example of this technology is the Livescribe Echo Pen.
What are illustrations (pictures; sketches; phrases)?
If a child with dyslexia reads independently for 20 minutes each night, even though he cannot sound out (decode) the words, his reading and comprehension skills will improve.
What is myth?
When a child avoid reading at all costs and has trouble retelling a story-or if she hardly pays _______ to the text-she is showing a tendency toward dyslexia.
What is attention?
Children who receive the right type of intervention at an early age have opportunities to become successful, fluent readers.
Fluency involves reading words accurately, reading them at an acceptable rate of _____, and using good vocal expression.
What is speed?
Patricia Polacco, a best-selling author with dyslexia, wrote a children's book called Thank you, Mr. Falker. In the story, a girl struggling with dyslexia was greatly encouraged by a caring _______.
A person with this occupation can have a dynamic, positive impact on students with learning differences.
What is teacher (instructor)?
A student with an auditory (listening) processing deficit might seem as if she is not paying attention in class, because she is not able to follow multistep directions or sequences.
A wise teacher will break instructions and commands down into simpler ______-to avoid cognitive overload (where the child has too much information to process at once).
What are steps (parts; pieces)?
A person with dyslexia can sometimes read a word with two or three syllables easier than he can read a function word like that or with.
What is fact?
What is vocabulary?
Even though schools have generally identified more boys than girls as having dyslexia, research has shown (through individual testing) that it is found to be present:
A) slightly more often in girls than in boys
B) a lot more often in girls than in boys
C) about the same amount among girls and boys
What is C (about the same)?
Have you ever thought about the variety of learning styles our leaders have had? Although dyslexics may struggle with reading, writing, and/or spelling and even math, many dyslexics excel in their outside the box thinking, vision, leadership, and oral skills and ability to lead and inspire.
Can you name the eight US presidents who have or are believed to have dyslexia?
Who are
George Washington (1st)
Thomas Jefferson (3rd)
Andrew Jackson (7th)
Woodrow Wilson (28th)
John F. Kennedy (35th)
Lyndon B. Johnson (36th)
George H. Bush (41st)
George W. Bush (43rd)
Children with spatial difficulties can have problems writing numbers in small spaces, or trouble keeping digits in straight columns when working math problems.
To avoid frustration, it is important to provide students plenty of room in which to show their work-either a whiteboard or an oversized graph _____.
What is paper?