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Property of Region 10 Education Service Center

Dumas ISD Parents’ Night Teacher Training

2015-2016

Assessing and Identifying Dyslexia

Special Services - Dyslexia

Dumas ISD/Region 16 ESCAdapted from materials provided by Gina Mitchell of Region 10 ESC


School Success

Lifetime

Achievement

Effective Instruction

Dyslexia

Present/Future Accommodations

Appropriate Placement Documentation


Dyslexia Fact or Myth

1. Dyslexia cannot be diagnosed until about third grade.

2. Children who reverse b’s and d’s are dyslexic.3. Students cannot be dyslexic and

Gifted/Talented.4. More boys than girls are dyslexic.5. A test is given to diagnose dyslexia.6. Dyslexia is outgrown.


Dyslexia is:

• Of constitutional origin

• Difficulty with reading, writing, or spelling

• Unexpected


International Dyslexia Association Definition 2002

• Specific learning disability

• Neurological origin

• Difficulties in accurate / fluent word recognition, poor spelling, and decoding

• Deficit in phonological component of language


International Dyslexia Association Definition 2002

• UNEXPECTED in relation to other cognitive abilities and effective classroom instruction

• Secondary consequences in reading comprehension, reduced reading experience that impedes vocabulary growth and background knowledge


Prevalence (Shaywitz, 2003)

• 5%-17% of school-aged children have dyslexia. • Dyslexia is the most common learning disability.

• Dyslexia occurs with equal frequency in boys and girls.

• More than 1/3 of fourth-grade students cannot read well enough to comprehend grade-level material. (National Center for Education Statistics, 2001)


Heritability• Family history is an important risk factor 23% - 65%

of children have a parent with dyslexia.

• The rate among siblings is approximately 40%.

• The skills of readers with dyslexia become more accurate over time, but they do not become automatic. Therefore, causing reading to remain effortful--even for the brightest student and persists into adulthood.

(Torgesen, 2002)


Right Hemisphere Left Hemisphere

Child #12 With Reading

Difficulties

Child #1 Normal Reader

Reprinted by permission, Jack Fletcher, Center for Academic Reading Skills


Before After

Child #1 with Reading Difficulties

Child #2 with Reading Difficulties

Reprinted by permission, Jack Fletcher, Center for Academic Reading Skills

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Research Findings• Specific Reading

Disability/Dyslexia affects at least one out of every five children in the U.S.

• Dyslexia is not a developmental delay. Of children who display reading problems in the 3rd grade, 74% will be poor readers in the 9th grade and into adulthood without intervention.

• Reading, writing, and spelling failure caused by dyslexia is highly preventable through direct, explicit instruction in phonemic awareness.

NICHD 2002


Refining

• Current/on-going research

• New findings


MEDICAL EDUCATIONAL

•Symptoms •Characteristics

•Examinations •Observations

•Tests/Procedures •Tests/Assessments

•Diagnosis--Identification

•Medical Treatment •Educational Treatment


What is required by the state of Texas for the identification of the

student with dyslexia?

TAC§74.28 §504 IDEIA §504

TEC §38.003 TEC §7.028 TEC §28.006


The Dyslexia Handbook, 2009, is a guideline

• Written procedures • Recommendations for

assessment, identification, and

placement.

http://www. region10.org/dyslexia


There is NO one test for dyslexia


Identifying Dyslexia

“Tests don’t identify, people do”


Identification of Dyslexia

Made by a committee of

knowledgeable persons


Outcomes• Depend on severity and intervention

• Can be long term; students not on track by third grade are less likely to catch up

(Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998)

75% of poor readers in third grade remained poor readers in ninth grade

(Francis, Shaywitz, Stuebing, Shaywitz, & Fletcher, 1996)

• Are broader than just poor reading skills (Snow, Burns, & Griffin,

1998)


Video

Dyslexia: Finding the Answers

International Dyslexia Association


Suggestions For Parents• Learn about dyslexia

• Understand your student and

help your student understand

• Support your student

• Collaborate with educators


Resources

• The Dyslexia Handbook

http://www.region10.org/dyslexia


Questions & Answers

The most frequently asked questions about dyslexia.

• The Dyslexia Handbook Revised 2014

Appendix C

Pages 60-79


Dumas ISD Dyslexia Contact

Jo Stroebel

806-935-4155 ext.2022

[email protected]

Denia Brinkmann

806-935-4155 ext.6011

[email protected]

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