Carolyn's Tutoring
Specializing in Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability. "Dyslexia refers to a cluster of symptoms, which result in people having difficulties with specific language skills, particularly reading. Students with dyslexia may experience difficulties in other language skills such as spelling, writing, and speaking. Dyslexia is a life-long status, however, its impact can change at different stages in a person's life. It is referred to as a learning disability because dyslexia can make it very difficult for a student to succeed academically in the typical instructional environment." By using an evidence-based program, such as an Orton-Gillingham multi-sensory, structured language approach, dyslexics and other struggling readers learn to read and write well.
-Taken from The International Dyslexia Association (IDA)
Here are a couple of ways to spot the dyslexic in the classroom:
1. Does he/she have trouble with sequence? (telling time, days of the week)
2. Does he/she have trouble with "critical symbols?" (d-b-p-q/m-w/u-n/6-9/h-v)
3. Does he/she form letters with a clockwise (rather than counterclockwise) motion?
4. Does he/she fall apart under time limits and pressure? Does he/she work very slowly?
Sally Shaywitz, M.D., co-director of Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
“Science has moved forward at a rapid pace so that we now possess the data to reliably define dyslexia … For the student, the knowledge that he is dyslexic is empowering … [It provides him] with self-understanding and self-awareness of what he has and what he needs to do in order to succeed.”
-—Testimony Before the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, United States House of Representatives