1. Reading Disabilities
NOT:
Support reluctant readers beyond
dyslexia and other learning
differences
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2. Presented by
Deborah Blashaw
Regina Powers
From Servite High School
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3. Video
Pop Quiz!
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4. What
percentage of
America's
prison
inmates are
illiterate?
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5. http://www.statisticbrain.com/number-of-american-adults-who-cant-read/
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6. What
percentage
of juvenile
offenders
have reading
problems?
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7. Literacy Statistics Reference Information, U.S. Department of Education
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8. “Over 50% of NASA employees
are dyslexic. They are
deliberately sought after because
they have superb problemsolving skills and excellent 3D
and spatial awareness.”
Reference: Mary-Margaret Scholtens, director of the Alternative Programs Providing
Learning Experiences (APPLE) Group, Copyright 2005, Jonesboro Sun
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9. Beyond Bloom’s
Can a
learning
disability be
beneficial?
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10. Why Kids Don’t Read
Lack of
Interest
Processing
Problems
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11. Approximately
what percentage
of children (3-17
years of age)
have been
diagnosed with
ADHD?
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12. Center for Disease Control
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13. What
percentage of
boys have
been
diagnosed
with ADHD?
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14. 13.2%
Center of Disease Control
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15. Is ADHD Under-diagnosed?
• 52% of children not diagnosed
• Girls are less likely than boys to have
condition recognized
• Only about 10 percent of adults
diagnosed and treated
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16. Attention
Multiple
=
Deficit
Attentiveness
Disorder
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17. Multiple attentiveness may mean…
• Unable to focus
• Overactive
• Unable to control
behavior
• or a combination
of these
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18. Obvious Symptoms
 Fidgets with hands or feet or squirms in seat
 Leaves seat when remaining seated is expected
 Runs about or climbs in inappropriate situations
 Has problems playing or working quietly
 Is often "on the go," acts as if "driven by a motor"
 Talks excessively
 Blurts out answers before questions have been
completed
 Has difficulty awaiting turn
 Interrupts or intrudes on others (butts into conversations
or games)
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19. Not obvious Symptoms
 Fails to give close attention to details or makes careless
mistakes in schoolwork
 Has difficulty keeping attention during tasks or play
 Does not seem to listen when spoken to directly
 Does not follow through on instructions and fails to finish
school work or chores and tasks
 Has problems organizing tasks and activities
 Avoids or dislikes tasks that require sustained mental
effort (such as schoolwork)
 Often loses toys, assignments, pencils, books, or tools
needed for tasks or activities
 Is easily distracted
 Is often forgetful in daily activities
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20. The Gifts of Multiple Attentiveness
(ADD, ADHD, Autism)
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21. Gifts of Multiple Attentiveness
(ADD/ADHD)
Flexibility
Creativity
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/ SCIENCE
PHOTO LIBRARY /
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Group
Perseverance
C/O: Photo Japan / Robert Harding World
Imagery / Universal Images Group
C/O: Illustration entitled
'San Francisco Mozart
Festival' by Andrzej
Dudzinski, 1991."
Enthusiasm
Visage / Stockbyte / Getty Images /
Universal Images Group
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22. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
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Read aloud
Read-Share
Audio books
Text-to-audio
features
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23. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
• Engage
Imagination
• Visualize
• Make a movie
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24. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
• Demo parts of
book
• Demo parts of
website
• Don’t assume!
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25. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
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•
•
•
Predict
Share
Discuss
Organize
Preschool students performing in a school play, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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26. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
• Encourage notetaking
• Teach Cursive!
• Teach typing!
*Anything you write you are 6 times
more likely to remember.
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Universal Images Group
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27. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
• Build on
background
knowledge
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28. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
Take a break
every
15 to 20 minutes!
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29. Reading Processing Disorders
Dyslexia
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30. What percentage of the population is
affected by dyslexia?
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31. Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
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32. Out of 10
students with
dyslexia, how
many will
qualify for an
IEP and
support?
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33. 1 out of
10
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34. Reading Processing Disorder Dyslexia
Brain does not properly recognize and
process certain symbols.
Involves difficulties in acquiring and
processing language
Typically manifested by a lack of
proficiency in reading, spelling, and
writing.
High percentage of comorbidity with ADD
and dysgraphia
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35. The Gifts of Reading Processing
Disorders
(Dyslexia)
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36. Vivid Imagination
The Gifts in
Dyslexia
Curious
Problem-Solvers
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Intuitive and Insightful
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37. Support Strategies for Reading
Processing Disorders
Help them see
the big picture.
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LIBRARY / Universal Images Group
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38. Strategies to unlock the gifts of
Dislexics
Reader’s Advisory
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Universal Images Group
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39. Support Strategies for
Multiple Attentiveness
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40. Universal Design
It works for everyone
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41. For Architects
The design of products and
environments to be usable by all
people, to the greatest extent
possible, without the need for
adaptation or specialized design.
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42. For Teachers
Universal design is an approach to
designing course instruction,
materials, and content to benefit
people of all learning styles without
adaptation or retrofitting.
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43. Font Style Strategies
12, 14 size
Use lower case letters
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44. Paper Style Strategies
•Use colored paper
•Use matt paper to reduce glare
•Use good quality paper
•Avoid light text on a dark background
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45. Presentation Style Strategies
•Break text into short, readable units
•Use wide margins and headings
•Use at least 1.5 line spaces between lines of text
•Use bold print to highlight
•Highlight important text in a box or use color
•Keep text left justified with a ragged right edge
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46. Accommodation Tools
A few examples
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47. iPad
Features:
• Enlarge print
• Change background color
• Access audio
• Learning Apps
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48. 1. Settings
Bottom
of page
Settings
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49. 2. Speak Selection
Speak Selection
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50. 3. Turn on features; set speed
Speak Selection
Speaking Rate
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51. Kurzweil
Bookshare Subscriber
Video
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52. Review
Why are we here
today?
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53. 85 percent
of juvenile
offenders
have
reading
problems.
Prison Cell In Alcatraz Prison. Photograph.Encyclopædia
Britannica ImageQuest. Web.
http://quest.eb.com/images/105_1397481
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54. Only 1 out of
10 students
with dyslexia
will qualify for
an IEP and
support.
Prison Cell In Alcatraz Prison. Photograph.Encyclopædia
Britannica ImageQuest. Web.
http://quest.eb.com/images/105_1397481
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55. Librarians Advocate!
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LP Books
Audio Books
Text-to-audio features
Learning to Keyboard
Portable Keyboards
Note-Taking Software
Speech-to-Text
Dictation Programs
• Text-to-Speech Products
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56. Great news!
Audio books sans DRM
http://boingboing.net/2014/01/23/al
l-library-audiobooks-going-t.html
Overdrive announces audiobooks to
be MP3 format i.e., w/o DRM
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57. Useful Resources
• National Center for Learning
Disabilities (NCLD)
• K12 Reader
• Yale Center for Dyslexia
• Learning Ally ($)
• Decoding Dyslexia
• YouTube audio books
• Firefly: Kurzweil ($)
• Edmentum ($)
• LibriVox
See Links page @
ReadingDisabilitiesNOT.Weebly
.com
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58. Every effort was made to credit the
creators of the images used during
this presentation and to cite where
they were retrieved.
Feel free to contact presenter,
Regina Powers, if you feel a
copyright violation is evident.
rpowers@servitehs.org
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