Monday, 20 September 2010

Dys - Needs assessment tomorrow

Ahhh and I haven't thought about it. What do I need? What would make a difference? Don't know, do know..

This was interesting though - Management of dyslexia


"Especially for undergraduates, some consideration of what 'reading' is and what it is for can be useful. There are techniques (reading the first sentence [and/or last] of each paragraph in a chapter, for example) which can give an overview of content. This can be sufficient for some purposes. Since stress and anxiety are contributors to a dyslexic's weaknesses in absorbing information, removing these can assist in improving understanding. When a dyslexic knows that not every reading experience must be onerous, it greatly helps their mental approach to the task.


e best approaches acknowledge that the objective in helping to improve a dyslexic's 'reading' is not to 'read-like-a-non-dyslexic-does', but to find a way of extracting information from text that works efficiently for someone who processes such information differently from the majority."


And then some of the crappy news: Students on the breadline - waiting for DSA


  1. Proofing, planning, how to read when I forget things in seconds..
  2. Scanning
  3. Organisational skills
  4. Software and person to person instruction on software
  5. Hardware?
  6. Print and photocopy



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