Many teachers don’t know enough about the challenges in the classroom prior to becoming a teacher. This can include students that have dyslexia. One teacher by the name of Leslie Patterson was no exception to this rule but now she is a certified academic language and dyslexia therapist at an elementary school. This school is leading the pack in using new technology to reach out to the dyslexic students.
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Another issue that these teachers face is the lack of state funding for programs that may help these students excel in areas that they lack the confidence that they need to succeed. A program called Bookshare is helping to change that by offering free services to students that have dyslexia and other learning obstacles. To learn more, check out this article here and see how Bookshare is helping children with dyslexia like to read!
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“With the practice of reading with eyes and ears, you are learning words because you are seeing the words spelled correctly, you are hearing the word, as your eye is touching it, pronounced correctly, and over time, you are learning words because you are getting practice hearing and seeing them correctly,”
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A new way of teaching students with dyslexia is to involve technology.
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Bookshare allows the students to read and listen to the words at the same time.
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The program is not state funded but if you have been diagnosed of dyslexia and other learning difficulties it is free.
