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Speech-language pathology
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Read this interview with a parent whose time and effort made all the difference for her daughter with dyslexia.
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Your child's teacher may see 100 or more students per day. There is no way they can possibly know more about your child than you do. Be confident when working with the school!
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How do we get children who are dyslexic to read? Here are a few ways.
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Case studies of individuals with dyslexia who achieved positive outcomes by employing each person's strengths and interests in therapy
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An overview of the state of Michigan guidelines for determining a student's eligibility for services under specific learning disabilities.
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Consistency, firmness, and a forgiving attitude are just three of these five solid attributes required for guiding your dyslexic child down the path of success.
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Given that many dyslexics have difficulty hearing the individual sounds in our language, a skill that underlies spelling, many dyslexics have difficulty learning to spell. The English orthography is derived from many other languages – Greek, Latin, and French to name a few, and as a result, many English sounds are spelled more than one way...
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Many individuals with dyslexia or learning disability think that writing comes easily for others, but this is not the case. Writing is a complex process. Even great writers need to work at it.
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In response to requests from UM students who attending UCLL’s successful workshop Six Steps to Academic Success (SSAS), which is a group format, we developed a program that is based on individual needs to help students with their course work during the semester...
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A young woman discusses her dyslexia and how it has not stopped her from writing.
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Many people who struggle with writing think that good writers just write well. We need to convey good writing is challenging for everyone. We need to have accommodations and supports in place to level the playing field for children with dyslexia and language and learning disabilities; but they need to know the process of writing.
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We have identified some of our favorite books which you might find helpful. For each, we've provided a brief summary about the content.
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A compilation of various phonemic awareness activities such as rhyming, elision, and blending that will help make therapy productive and fun.
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A list of programs and activities designed specifically to target phonemic awareness.
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Without strong skills in phonemic awareness, a child cannot begin to connect the sounds of our language to letters or letter combinations.
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Many students with dyslexia struggle with reading fluency. Not only does fluency include rate and accuracy, it also encompasses prosody (pacing and pausing) and intonation. A reading apprenticeship provides a way to achieve these elements of oral reading.
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We have compiled a list of programs, software and board games designed specifically to target spelling in a structured, but fun way. We have used some of these at the Center and have found them to be successful tools.
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Teaching reading comprehension has multiple steps, and the student must bring all of his or her knowledge to the process.
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It is possible to craft very specific, measurable IEP goals for teaching meta-cognition.
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Phonological awareness is different from phonics (and includes phonemic awareness) and is an essential skill to learn to read. Therefore, it is critical to make this concept explicit for all students with dyslexia. This page and video help explain further.
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By developing your students’ vocabulary, you have not only set up your students for success in school, you have given them the tools they need to become lifelong learners of words.
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Understand how word retrieval fluency and rapid automatic naming affect a dyslexic individual.
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A list of some programs that have been developed for struggling writers.
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You are your own greatest advocate!
