Thinking positively of dyslexia

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How do you remember facts

On the 10th June, I asked my facebook community of 15,000 a question "How do you remember facts". Here are there responses. There is some really insightful approaches here that other dyslexic use to remember facts.   Brandi Ryan Geer The proven theory of the day is that most memories are tied to emotion or sensory [...]

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Develop self-learning with self-acceptance

I am a big believer with dyslexic students learning with self-learning. Self-learning helps the student learning:- self esteem self-acceptance of their own abilities ability to see they can do work develop their learning techniques own their own develop an understand of what works best for them   I believe many of dyslexic problems is in [...]

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Tips for using black board to help dyslexia students

I understand why you use the board to teach students because you do it in an all in one style which allow you to direct your student together. But dyslexic student find it difficult to read on black and white Using these boards means reading and then writing notes for the dyslexic and that means [...]

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Teaching study skills is important for dyslexics

Dyslexics are intelligence students but they are taught by non-dyslexics so they are taught to learn in a non-dyslexic style which causes them to struggle. So as a teacher you need to have dyslexic students to learn in dyslexic styles of learning. When you ask students to do a piece of work, give student example [...]

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Top 10 tips to help a dyslexic in class

Use colour pens when using the white pen Don't give student pages with lots of text to read When giving out notes to the class, have the notes on bullet points Use videos in class, dyslexic will remember more Don't ask students to read out aloud in class Its the content in a dyslexic work [...]

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Top 10 reading tips for dyslexics

Try reading on ipad or computer if you can, this will reduce the glear from the text that you normally get from paper. When picking a book to read or paper on text, try and find pages that have larger text and spread out more. If your eye are stressed from reading, take your time. [...]

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Top exam tips for dyslexics

Read the question 5 times before answering it Have a spare peice of paper to write down some notes Take your time, its better to get the question rights Look at the paper and answer the questions you know first and then answer the questions you will have difficult with after When you have an [...]

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Top 10 coursework tips for dyslexics

Plan out your report before you start Think of an report or essay as introduction, findings and conclusion Take your time and plan your work and then research it When writing your work do, write it first and then read through it and re-edit your grammar Try and use a computer to do your work [...]

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Study tips for dyslexics

User bullet points for notes Have 3 books for each class, classwork, homework and revision notes When researching a topic, read books that have pictures and alot of spacing in book. So not much text on the pages, this will help you to read more easily Ask your teachers for topics to research in your [...]

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Reducing stress for dyslexics

Being a dyslexic student in a classroom 6 hours a day can be very stressful with the difficulties of reading or writing. Dyslexics are in stress environment and hardly do well in class because of their failure which they see each day, 5 days a week. So it´s important to help dyslexic learn how to [...]

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