[senco-forum] Re: Short SpLD Inset

www.ricklavoie.com  You need to make sure it is a format compatible with
your video player.

Philippa

On 2/16/07, SUSAN WALSH <susan.walsh12 at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Philippa.............. where can I get hold of that video?
>
> Sue
>
> *Paul and Philippa Bodien <bodien at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
> On 2/16/07, Paul and Philippa Bodien 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 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!)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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