Section B: Specific Additional Requirements • Describe 3 examples of syndromes/conditions of your choice. • Describe 2 strategies for each example described above. These strategies could be medical‚ nutritional‚ educational‚ social or emotional which are meant to meet the children’s additional needs. Down Syndrome Down Syndrome‚ also referred to as Trisomy 21‚ is a condition which causes delays in the development of children‚ both mentally and physically‚ due to extra genetic material
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Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects reading‚ writing‚ spelling‚ and sometimes speaking in children. Dyslexia is known as one of the common disabilities in children. This disorder can be mild or severe. Every single child diagnosed with dyslexia is different in some way. Treatment for dyslexia should be started as early as possible for best results‚ however; it is never too late. One in Ten students in the United Stated have Dyslexia. I think most educators that fail to identify students
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DIAGNOSIS AND REMEDIATION OF STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA AND DYSCALCULIA IN THE NIGERIAN EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM BY ABUBAKAR SALIHU MADA KADUNA POLYTECHNIC‚ KADUNA Abstract: Dyslexia is a learning disability that manifest itself as a difficulty with the visual notation of speech or written language‚ particularly with reading‚ while dyscalculia is a learning difficulty in which a person has unusual difficulty in solving mathematical problems and grasping mathematical concepts‚ memory of
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are very different problems. There are many definitions of dyslexia. The International Dyslexia Association states that; “dyslexia is a neurologically based‚ often familial‚ disorder which interferes with the acquisition and processing of language” .[2] British Dyslexics say simply “individuals….struggle to learn through the medium of written or spoken language” ‚[3] but have a list of definitions from other sources which include “dyslexia is the ability to see multidimensionally‚ all at once‚ or
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essay will address Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) with particular focus on Dyslexia. Dyslexia is one of the more widely recognised of Spld’s and has been defined as a difficulty with written language skills and phonological processing even in the presence of adequate learning opportunities and IQ. This essay aims to highlight the influence that developmental psychology has had on our understanding of Dyslexia and how this has translated practically in our treatment of it. As well as the course
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post centers on possible causes of learning disabilities‚ specifically that of dyslexia. Common symptoms of dyslexia are difficulty in the areas of speaking‚ pronunciation‚ reading fluency‚ decoding‚ comprehension‚ and word retrieval (Society for Neuroscience‚ 2012). However‚ in languages such as Finnish and Italian‚ which are more consistent in their relationship between letters and sounds‚ the only evidence of dyslexia may be slow reading (Society for Neuroscience‚ 2012). Physical differences
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principal that ×Ishaan needed time to learn because he has dyslexia. He gives him his time‚ patience‚ care and he ultimately helps ×Ishaan find himself. As time goes by‚ ×Ishaan had a great improvement and he even won in the painting contest. In that time‚ at the end of the school‚ his parent went there and has a great evaluation about their child. Reflection/ reaction We all have individual differences‚ as well as ×Ishaan in the movie that has dyslexia. He is a person that just cannot seem to get anything
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Learning Difficulties and it is these SPLD’s that are common in most mainstream schools i.e. dyslexia‚ dyscalculia‚ and dyspraxia. Most commonly these are difficulties with reading‚
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Interestingly‚ some researchers compare the abilities of developmental phonological dyslexics and developmental surface dyslexics. For example‚ Hanley and Gard (1995) conducted various tests and found that Mandy and Gregory scored significantly low on reading and spelling tasks. Gregory was found to score lower than Mandy on nonword reading tests and phoneme counting tasks. Thus‚ both the patients were suffering from different types of reading and spelling deficits. These results indicate that Gregory
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the classroom each week and policy news and information on the Department of Education resources. Most publications require payment so I don’t understand what you get for the money you pay. Part 2: Dyslexia Basics URL: http://www.ldonline.org/article/Dyslexia_Basics Summary: Dyslexia is a learning disability that affects many language skills especially in reading. No causes of the disability have been found but dyslexics can learn
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