[senco-forum] Re: Short SpLD Inset

On 2/16/07, Paul and Philippa Bodien <bodien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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!)
> >
> >
> >
>