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DVD
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: Effective Classroom Strategies to Build Students’ Reading and Writing Skills
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- Faculty:
- Mary Asper, MS, CCC-SLP
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 16 Minutes
- Copyright:
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Oct 23, 2020
- Publisher:
- PESI, Inc.
- Product Code:
- RNV056925
- Media Type:
- DVD
Description
Students CAN expand their basic reading and writing skills, even when diagnosed with Dyslexia and/or Dysgraphia.
This presentation is filled with abundant child-centered, classroom-proven strategies and materials for building skills in the seven foundational areas for reading: phonemic and phonological awareness, vocabulary and word knowledge, changes in word meaning, sentence structure, narrative composition and spelling.
Even more strategies and materials are provided for underlying characteristics that affect students’ performance such as anxiety, executive function, auditory processing and visual processing.
Take away strategies designed to accelerate your students’ progress in reading and written expression through innovative and successful field-tested methods and practical tips.
Credit
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual - Dyslexia and Dysgraphia (12.38 MB) | 68 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| Instructions for ASHA credit - Self-Study Only (64.4 KB) | Available after Purchase | ||
| CE Test – 056925 – Paper Option (325.4 KB) | Available after Purchase |
Additional Info
Access for Self-Study (Non-Interactive)Access never expires for this product.
Objectives
- Assess and discuss misunderstandings and inaccurate perceptions about the characteristics of Specific Learning Disorder diagnosis and its’ impact on student performance.
- Use music and physical movement to prepare the brain for learning and to enhance retention and recall.
- Choose appropriate interventions for letter formation, spacing, capitalization, punctuation to improve treatment outcomes.
- Implement techniques to boost reading comprehension and enhance critical thinking skills.
- Apply strategies related to the seven foundational skills of reading to inform choice of treatment interventions.
- Create effective methods to support students’ written language abilities and to reduce anxiety about written expression.
- Formulate plans to improve student outcomes in reading and written language through applying learned strategies and resources.
Outline
Dispelling Myths about Dyslexia and Dysgraphia
- Dyslexia/Dysgraphia can be diagnosed
- Students will not just “get over it” or grow out of it
- Students won’t do better if they just “try harder”
Preparing the Brain For Learning
- The benefits of music and movement for the reading/writing brain
- Engaging positive self-talk
- Resources for implementing movement in the classroom
Foundational skills for proficient readers
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phonological Awareness
- Visual Tracking
- Blending
- Segmenting
- Multi-syllable Words
- Fluency
Boosting Comprehension
- Identifying unknown words
- Thinking and remembering in categories
- Creating meaningful, memorable definitions
- Inference and prediction, Idioms, Multiple-Meaning Words
- Literal vs. Figurative language
- Fact vs. Opinion
Strategies for Written Expression
- Improving letter formation, spacing, capitalization, punctuation
- Overcoming spelling difficulties
- Choosing words to write with
- Building Sentences
- Writing from Pictures
- Collecting and using ideas for writing
Assistive Technology, Accommodations and Supports
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Teachers
- Paraprofessionals
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Other Helping Professionals that Work with Children
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