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1. How to build a Child’sHow to build a Child’s
resilience and Self-resilience and Self-
Esteem?Esteem?
CopingCoping
with Dyslexiawith Dyslexia

3. What is Dyslexia?
Dyslexia is a learning
difficulty that
primarily affect the
Skills involved in
Accurate and fluent
wording, reading and
spelling.
Students with dyslexia usually experience
difficulties with other language skills such as
spelling, writing, and pronouncing words.

4. Co-Occurring Difficulties
These may be seen in
aspects of Language, Motor
Co-ordination, Mental
Calculation, Concentration
And Personal Organization,
but these are not, by
themselves, markers of
dyslexia.

5. What causes dyslexia?
The exact causes of dyslexia are still not completely
clear, but anatomical and brain imagery studies show
differences in the way the brain of a dyslexic person
develops and functions. Moreover, most people with
dyslexia have been found to have problems with
identifying the separate speech sounds within a word
and/or learning how letters represent those sounds, a
key factor in their reading difficulties. Dyslexia is not due
to either lack of intelligence or desire to learn; with
appropriate teaching methods, dyslexics can learn
successfully.

6. Myths About Dyslexia
• Dyslexia is a Visual Problem
• Dyslexia Only Affects boys
• If you perform well in
schools, you can’t be
dyslexic
• People who are Dyslexic are
unable to read.
• Smart People can’t be
dyslexic. If you are smart,
you can’t be dyslexic.

7. What are the effects of
dyslexia?
• The impact that dyslexia has is different for each person and
depends on the severity of the condition and the effectiveness of
instruction or remediation. The core difficulty is with word
recognition and reading fluency, spelling, and writing. Some dyslexics
manage to learn early reading and spelling tasks, especially with
excellent instruction, but later experience their most debilitating
problems when more complex language skills are required, such as
grammar, understanding textbook material, and writing essays.
• Dyslexia can also affect a person's self-image. Students with dyslexia
often end up feeling "dumb" and less capable than they actually are.
After experiencing a great deal of stress due to academic problems, a
student may become discouraged about continuing in school.

8. Challenges of Dyslexia
• Struggles with Organization, Memory and planning
• Poor Concentration
• Struggles with day to day things ( Telling time etc.)
• Struggles with literary skills
• Low Self - Esteem

9. Other problems experienced by
dyslexics include the following:
• Learning to speak
• Learning letters and their sounds
• Organizing written and spoken language
• Memorizing number facts
• Reading quickly enough to comprehend
• Persisting with and comprehending longer reading
assignments
• Spelling
• Learning a foreign language
• Correctly doing math operations

10. Not all students who have difficulties
with these skills are dyslexic. Formal
testing is the only way to confirm a
diagnosis of suspected dyslexia.

11. Do you know them?

12. How is Dyslexia treated?
Dyslexia is a life-long condition. With proper help, many
people with dyslexia can learn to read and write well. Early
identification and treatment is the key to helping dyslexics
achieve in school and in life. Most people with dyslexia need
help from a teacher, tutor, or therapist specially trained in
using a multisensory, structured language approach. It is
important for these individuals to be taught by a systematic
and explicit method that involves several senses (hearing,
seeing, touching) at the same time. Many individuals with
dyslexia need one-on-one help so that they can move
forward at their own pace.

13. Assessment of Dyslexia
• If you think your child
is struggling with
reading, writing,
spelling or math and
not making progress?
• This is the time to
have them assessed
by an Educational and
Developmental
Psychologist.

14. Strengths of Dyslexia
• Great at Visual thinking – thinking in pictures
• Fast Problem solvers, able to think laterally
• Verbally articulate – great Communicators
• Highly Creative then average person
• Can be very driven, ambitious and persistent;

15. Helping Hand
• Speld Victoria Provides full assessment services to
Diagnose the Dyslexia.
• To Book an assessment please call (03) 9480 4422

16. Services & Information
• We are a not for profit
organization and from last
48 years we have worked to
serve Children with Specific
Learning Difficulties (like
Dyslexia).
• Our vision is “Every
Victorian child has the
opportunity to reach their
learning potential”.
• Parents/Caregivers Support
Groups
• School Consultancy
• Technology Services
• In School Workshops
• Assessment Services
• Membership Information
and Registration
Who We Are Our Services

17. Speld Victoria can be reached at any of the below
options.
• Visit us: 60 High Street, Preston, Melbourne,
Victoria 3072
• Call the infoline- 1800 051 533
• Call the office- 03 9480 4422
• Fax us- (03) 9480 3322
• Email us: admin@speldvic.org.au