The education of Dyslexic Children from childhood to Adulthood
Shaywitz

My major focus is on older students as a high school resources teacher and how to teach dyslexic students how to read and learn from text.

The Lovett et al program of phonological awareness, phoneme blends and meta-cognitive approach is one that I use with students; so this is good to identify with. The struggles that I have are with the following:

• students have been in reading intevention / resource for years and are very resistant to more
• the programs that is available is very time consuming and students are tierd of the long process
• the material is for students of a much younger age

Compensatory stretegies suggested: additional time, auditiory delivery of text, assistive technology. These are effective for independence. What we often see in schools is the dependency on an adult (teacher or EA).

In order for interventions to be successful, identification of Dyslexia needs to occur before grade 2. Pyscho-educational assessments occur in grade 4 in the public school system in NS.
With fluency, the Jamestown program is effective.

Simon