What is Dyslexia Keith Fechtman takes you on a journey through his struggles and teaches you about Dyslexia and how it affected him. His goal to reach 1 million people by the end of 2020 to educate and teach what most people don't know about it. He speaks at business conferences and schools.

2. ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Keith Fechtman, MBA is the author of a
Children’s Book Series about DYSLEXIA.
(Malina’s Adventures)
Also he is a Military Vet – ARMY 8yrs.
Keith’s own personal struggles with
dyslexia throughout life has taught him to
never give up and push through adversity
and achieve as many accomplishments as
you want.
Malina’s Adventures is a children’s book
series where a little girl struggles with
animal names and calls them by what she
thinks is their real names.

3. www.dyslexiacenterofutah.org/Statistics
One in five students, or 15-20% of the
population, has a language based learning
disability.
Dyslexia is the most common of the
language based learning disabilities.

4. Famous Icons with Dyslexia
Richard Branson
Henry WinklerSteven Spielberg
Tom CruisePablo Picasso
Whoopi Goldberg
Keira Knightley

5. Dyslexia and What I Would
Tell #MyYoungerSelf - Jay Leno

11. https://improvingliteracy.org/state-of-dyslexia
2019 States that has Dyslexia Legislation

12. Indiana Senate Bill 217
• Requires, not later than the 2019-2020 school year, the
department to ensure that each teacher receives
professional awareness information on dyslexia.
• Requires the department to develop and update an Indiana
dyslexia resource guide

16. ORTON-GILLINGHAM
History of Orton-Gillingham:
Orton-Gillingham was the first teaching approach designed
to help struggling readers by explicitly teaching the
connections between letters and sounds.
In the 1930’s neurologist Dr. Samuel T. Orton and
educator, psychologist Anna Gillingham developed the
Orton-Gillingham approach to reading instruction for
students with "word-blindness," which would later become
known as dyslexia.
Their approach combined multi-sensory teaching strategies
paired with systematic, sequential lessons focused on
phonics.
Today, Orton-Gillingham is used in many reading programs
as an effective way to teach literacy.
www.orton-gillingham.com

17. ORTON-GILLINGHAM
What Orton-Gillingham is all about:
Orton-Gillingham is a highly structured approach that
breaks reading and spelling down into smaller skills
involving letters and sounds, and then building on these
skills over time.
It also was the first approach to use multi-sensory
teaching strategies to teach reading, which is considered
extremely effective for teaching students with dyslexia.
This means that educators use sight, hearing, touch, and
movement to help students connect and learn the
concepts being taught.
www.orton-gillingham.com

26. A page out of….
Malina’s Farm Adventure

27. www.dyslexiefont.com
HOW WELL DID YOU READ
THESE SLIDES TODAY?
Dyslexie font is a unique
font developed by
Christian Boer.
A dyslexic himself, he
wanted a way to make
reading, learning, and
working easier more FUN!

28. NEED A MOTIVATIONAL
GUEST SPEAKER
Contact Keith
C: 317-431-2560
Keith.Fechtman@gmail.com