What Teachers Should Know About Dsylexia

Dyslexia is a common learning disability that can differ in each individual and can affect their reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling, and sometimes speech and can exist along with other related disorders. Teachers may notice a child is dyslexic when a child is having difficulty memorizing, spelling, or thinking and understanding. In classroom today teacher witness different types of dyslexia such as, auditory dyslexia, visual dyslexia, attentional dyslexia, phonological dyslexia, surface dyslexia, deep dyslexia, developmental dyslexia, acquired Dyslexia, directional dyslexia, and math dyslexia Back when I was in elementary school there was a program call Hooked on Phonics which helped students with building systematically from letters to sounds, then to words and sentences, and ultimately to reading fluency. Depending on the type of dyslexia they may receive services from speech therapist, reading specialist, and math specialist. Teaching programs do not sufficiently prepare teacher to help remediate students with dyslexia. Although there may not be many programs to help parents can try these things at home read out loud every day, tap into your child’s interest, use audiobooks, look for apps that may help, observe and take notes, focus on effort not outcome, and boost confidence.

Please look at this webpage for more information: https://www.understood.org/en/learning-attention-issues/child-learning-disabilities/dyslexia/understanding-dyslexia