Dyslexic children are very creative. They are often wonderful troubleshooters and problem solvers. Dyslexic children usually have keen thinking skills. By giving dyslexic students problem solving and thinking type questions, a teacher allows these students to use their wonderful thinking ability. Remember to use this strategy for questioning and assessment when teaching dyslexic students.

Leeia

Dysgraphia Conditions: some quick examples via Wikipedia.org.

Dyslexic dysgraphia
With dyslexic dysgraphia, spontaneously written work is illegible, copied work is fairly good, and spelling is bad. Finger tapping speed (a method for identifying fine motor problems) is normal, indicating the deficit does not likely stem from cerebellar damage. A Dyslexic Dysgraphia does not necessarily have dyslexia (dyslexia and dysgraphia appear to be unrelated).

Motor dysgraphia
Dysgraphia due to motor clumsiness has illegible spontaneously written work, illegible copied work, normal spelling, and abnormal finger tapping speed.

Spatial dysgraphia
Dysgraphia due to a defect in the understanding of space has illegible spontaneously written work, illegible copied work, normal spelling, but normal tapping speed.
Some children may have a combination of any two or all three of these. Symptoms in actuality may vary in presentation from what is listed here.

-Joseph

Dyslexia is often called a specific reading disability. Dyslexia is common among children. It is possibly the most common learning disability among children. Children with dyslexia may have normal intelligence and as well as normal vision. The only problems that may be evident in a dyslexic child are difficulties reading and spelling or confusion with letters and numbers.

Leeia

Dysgraphia:

A condition in which the act of writing becomes a complicated process. People who suffer from dysgraphia often have high-IQ's and above average verbal answers, but suffer in essay or short answer type questions; they cannot focus on the task at hand to produce a written document.

Stress, physically and mentally, can be produced by dysgraphia. Some victims sustain physical pains as well as mental struggle.

The DSM IV identifies dysgraphia as a "Disorder of Written Expression" as "writing skills (that) ...are substantially below those expected given the person's ...age, measured intelligence, and age-appropriate education".

I hope to find and report as much as possible this summer term on this condition, with my fellow colleagues' reports on Dyslexia and Discalculia, throughout the semester.

-Joseph

There are several ways to recognize dyslexia. These are a few warning signs you may find in a dyslexic child:

-writing letters and numbers backwards
-difficulty spelling words
-a family history of learning disabilities
-confusion over left and right
-difficulty with organization or following directions

Leeia

Dyscalculia is a learning disability where there is difficulty understanding the concepts of math and things dealing with numbers or word problems. Anything that deals with understanding fractions is also hard for anyone with discalculia.
The concept of time and days of the week is hard to understand, and also anything dealing with money and counting money is dificult.

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