[senco-forum] Re: Short SpLD Inset

Have you seen the video How Difficult Can This Be by Rick Lavoie?  It goes
over the range of difficulites that dyslexics experience whilst sitting at a
school desk in a very hard-hitting simulation.

It is excellent.

Philippa

On 2/15/07, BarbaraALooney at aol.com <BarbaraALooney at aol.com> wrote:
>
> You have probably seen these two before but a good activity I saw
> demonstrated was to ask the audience to discuss with the person next to
> them  their last
> summer holiday or other such topic withoput using the letter e.g.  "b". (I
> can't remember what letter was used, I suppose it should be a
> letter  which
> occurs frequently but not too frequently). Obviously it's do-able
> but  without
> fluency or automaticity so showing what it's like for some  dyslexics to
> read and
> write.
>
> Also ask them to write down from memory the symbol for a railway
> station  and
> the disabled sign - mine were extremely inaccurate, thus imitating what
> it's
> like for some children who see words thousands of times but can't quite
> reproduce them.
>
> As a mother of a very bright dyslexic son, (140+ in all modalities) who
> has
> just failed his first year at university, I would like to make teachers
> really aware that poor memory and organisation skills can be as
> disabling  and
> worthy of reasonable adjustment as other more obvious disabilities for
> the  bright
> dyslexics in their classes who have, nevertheless, managed to learn
> to  read
> and write adequately, and who really just seem profoundly irritating.
> Don't
> know how you do that one!
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Barbara Looney
> Secondary SENCO Coventry
> (Usually a lurker!)
>
>
>