Dyslexia+Strategies

__**DYSLEXIA STRATEGIES**__ The website [|Dyslexia Teacher] is a wonderful website resource for both parents and teachers which I have found has helped me to gain a deeper understanding of the hardships students who struggle to read, write and recognise letters and numbers go through. The website contains a number of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's), resources and teaching strategy ideas for teachers who have students in their class suffering Dyslexia. The resources and strategies focus on how to teach in a classroom inclusive of all student abilities while at the same time, further helping students with dyslexia to continue with their learning. Because of the simple definitions and explanations given on this website, Dyslexia is has become an easier learning difficulty for me to understand and therefore, the strategies to help students learn will be easy to implement into a classroom and adapt curriculum where necessary. The resources and teaching strategies and also the FAQ's are suitable for all students K-12.

[] **Dyslexia** Dyslexia is a type of a specific learning difficulty, in which a person has difficulties with language and words (Women’s and Children’s Health Services Western Australia, 2010). The most common characteristic is that the person has difficulty in reading, spelling, and writing. The person may be intelligent, be able to achieve well in other areas and exposed to the same education as others, but is unable to read at the expected level. Proficient reading is an essential tool for learning as it is a large part of the subject matter taught at school (Hodge, 2000). As more emphasis is placed on education and literacy, more and more children are needing help in learning to read, spell, and write. A child with dyslexia, who finds the acquisition of these literacy skills, can also suffer a lot of anguish as they feel they have a learning disability. Much can be done to alleviate this by integrating the child into the class environment where he/she can feel comfortable and develop confidence and self esteem. The webiste [|"Dyslexia"] has strategies for parents and teachers to help students with dyslexia in their learning. It has strategies dealing with classroom management, writing, reading, spelling, maths, homework, and marking of students’ work. These strategies can be used for all year levels of primary school. A wiki page, Dyslexia, has a link to the Dyslexia Association, which provides support to people who have dyslexia or are looking for more information on dyslexia. The link also provides the strategies for teachers to help students with dyslexia.
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**References** Hodge, Patricia. (2000). Dyslexia. Retrieved from [|www.dyslexia.com/library/classroom.htm] Women’s and Children’s Health Services Western Australia. (2010). Dyslexia. Retrieved from [|www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bharticles.nsf/pages/Dyslexia_explained]