Famous Dyslexic People
He created the iPhone
Who is Steve Jobs?
This part of the brain is responsible for speech sounds.
What is the Broca's area?
These graphic representations can be changed to assist dyslexic students.
What are fonts?
Students with dyslexia most commonly have trouble producing these, the sounds of letters.
What are phonemes?
He was the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
Dyslexics use more of this side of their brain when reading.
Right side
This pen allows students to record lectures and download directly to a computer.
What is Live Scribe Pen?
Students with dyslexia often struggle with this essential skill that is important to writing.
What is spelling?
He was the physicist who invented the law of relativity.
Who is Einstein?
These parts of the brain are not activated when dyslexic people read.
Parietal
Occipital
The type of tablet that is best rated for dyslexic students.
What is an iPad?
Older students with dyslexia struggle with this essential skill-reading smoothly and accurately with expression.
What is reading fluency?
She was one of the most influential first ladies in history.
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
A term that describes how each dyslexic person's brain is different.
What is neurodiversity?
A cutting edge technology that dyslexic students can use to scan a page of text with a camera.
What is Orcam?
Younger students-PreK and K exhibit signs of dyslexia when they struggle with this essential oral language skill.
What is mispronouncing words or struggling to name familiar objects outloud?
He was a member of the Beatles..and an award winning song writer.
Who is John Lennon?
These type of brain scans can be performed on babies to determine risk of dyslexia.
What are EEG's?
An extension for Google Chrome that aids dyslexic students in reading and writing.
What is Read and Write for Google Chrome?
A red flag for dyslexia with older students is the omission of these types of words when reading a passage.
What are connector or short words such as or, and and in.