[senco-forum] Re: Short SpLD Inset

Barbara,  has your son used voice activated software?

Philippa

On 2/16/07, Paul and Philippa Bodien <bodien at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 2/16/07, Paul and Philippa Bodien <bodien at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > It is excellent.
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> > Philippa
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> > On 2/15/07, BarbaraALooney at aol.com <BarbaraALooney at aol.com > wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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.
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> > > 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!
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> > > Best Wishes
> > >
> > > Barbara Looney
> > > Secondary SENCO Coventry
> > > (Usually a lurker!)
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