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Tuesdays with Tiffany. Reading Disabilities. Visual Notes. Today we are going to visualize some reading disabilities. Instead of writing words as you take notes today, I want you to draw pictures of the main ideas. Drawing pictures will help your brain remember it in a different way.
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Tuesdays with Tiffany Reading Disabilities
Visual Notes • Today we are going to visualize some reading disabilities. • Instead of writing words as you take notes today, I want you to draw pictures of the main ideas. • Drawing pictures will help your brain remember it in a different way.
What is it? • A problem in the part of your brain that translates what your eyes see into letters and words. • People with dyslexia are smart and can see and hear normally. • It affects your ability to read, speak, and spell.
Common Symptoms • Letter and numbers are switched around • Difficulty copying from the board or a book • Writing is disorganized • Hard time remembering things – even things you really enjoy like a favorite movie • Uncoordinated • Mix up left and right
More Common Symptoms • Difficulty following directions • You may use the wrong word but think you used the correct word • You mishear what people say • Difficulty following a sequence of steps • Difficulty spelling • Difficulty learning a foreign language • Inability to sound out an unfamiliar word
Difficulty Making Friends • People with dyslexia sometimes have a hard time making friends. If you know of someone who has these struggles, try and understand that it is caused by the dyslexia and be his/her friend anyway.
Difficulty Making Friends • Anxious about making mistakes • Feel inadequate • Trouble reading social cues like how far away to stand from other people • Struggle to find the right words to say • Stammer • Pause before answering your questions
Difficulty Making Friends • They get the order of events mixed-up when they say what happened, so it may seem like they are lying • Their story might change every time they tell it, so you think they lie a lot • Some days they do everything great and the next day, they can’t do simple tasks like remember how to spell an easy word
What is it? • You don’t always recognize the sounds in a word, even though it might be loud and clear to everyone else. • For example, someone says, “Tell me how a couch and a chair are the same.” You hear it as “Tell me how a cow and a hair are alike.” • This often happens when you are in a noisy environment.
What Causes It? • Even though you hear normally, you have more difficulty using the sounds in speech and language. • We don’t know what causes this disorder. • It is often confused with dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, or a learning delay.
Symptoms • Having trouble paying attention to and remembering information that is spoken. • Trouble following multi-step directions • Trouble listening • You need more time to process things • You don’t do well in school • You get in trouble because you didn’t follow directions or people think you are kidding around when you thought they said something else • It’s hard to read, hear what people say, or talk
Trouble in School • Some teachers and students think you are lazy • Some teachers think you don’t try hard enough in lessons • People think you are rude because you ignore them, when you just didn’t hear them • Teachers dock your grade because you don’t participate enough in class discussions
Making Friends • People with Auditory Processing Disorder have a hard time making friends because they are shy and worry about people laughing at them. • They have a hard time talking to people. • They don’t like to go to noisy, crowded places because they can’t hear you as well. This is hard for their friends to understand.