{"id":3759,"date":"2023-07-10T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T13:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/?page_id=3759"},"modified":"2023-07-10T14:20:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:20:28","slug":"dyslexia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/?page_id=3759","title":{"rendered":"Dyslexia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sess.ie\/categories\/specific-learning-disabilities\/dyslexia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What is dyslexia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sess.ie\/categories\/specific-learning-disabilities\/dyslexia\/tips-learning-and-teaching\">How can I support a child with dyslexia?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zafiGBrFkRM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The video  above helps break what dyslexia is and also gives examples of some famous people with dyslexia. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Programs that work in teaching reading and spelling to students with Dyslexic difficulties differ in their specific techniques but&nbsp;have many principles in common.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>All programs that work&nbsp;include multisensory practice for symbol&nbsp;learning.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Teaching&nbsp; approaches that are&nbsp;effective use direct, explicit teaching of letter-sound&nbsp;relationships, syllable patterns, and&nbsp;meaningful word parts, and provide a great deal&nbsp;of successful practice of skills that have been&nbsp;taught.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fluency-building exercises, vocabulary&nbsp;instruction, language comprehension and writing&nbsp;are also included in comprehensive programs of&nbsp;instruction and intervention.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Word recognition&nbsp;and spelling skills are applied in meaningful&nbsp;reading and writing of sentences and text&nbsp;passages, and students receive immediate&nbsp;feedback if they make mistakes.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guessing at&nbsp;words and skipping words are discouraged and&nbsp;replaced by knowledge of how to analyse and read unknown words.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Since dyslexia occurs on a continuum, a specialised teaching approach is best, rather than a program or method which does not allow flexibility<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>There is comprehensive evidence that supports the use of programs and interventions based on the Orton \u2013 Gillingham principles and approaches \u2013 a multisensory, structured language approach.&nbsp; This approach taps into sight, sound, movement and touch to help student\u2019s link language to words. Students learn the rules and patterns behind why and how letters make the sounds they do.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is dyslexia How can I support a child with dyslexia?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3759","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3759"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3771,"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3759\/revisions\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stoliverplunkett.ie\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}