[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] Dyslexia and general learning needs

Well that would correlate with today's news announcement on a study by the
charity "Extraordinary People" undertaken for the government that 1 in 5
children have dyslexia.

I'm glad as I was thinking I was going mad. I could easily pick 6 children
from some classes that would benefit from dyslexia type support -regardless
of whether I could be 100% sure that they have dyslexia. Some of these are
GLD/SpLD and it breaks my heart to see them struggling, despite lots of in
school support,  until they give up on themselves.

My local college picks up 17% every year using Quick scan. They are
predominately ones who have slipped through the Primary/Secondary net and
not been identified and/or supported previously.

Sharon

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Subject: [senco-forum] Dyslexia and general learning needs

The first step in any problem solving strategy is to define the problem and
in dyslexia, there is no single widely accepted of definition - there are a
number of widely accepted definitions which is of course a recipe for the
kind of confusion which in fact prevails. We do tend to think of dyslexia as
primarily a reading disability because that is the usually its most obvious
manifestation in school -  but we don't even have a professionally accepted
definition of reading let alone dyslexia.

In Education we have two indisputable realities. They are

  1.. Total indecision about the definition of reading
  2.. A consistently high number of children leaving school less than
functionally literate (about 1 in 5)

It is possible to demonstrate that this situation has prevailed for at least
seven decades and I would hazard a guess that these two realities are not
unrelated.

Eddie Carron

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