Conference Day: Special needs in literacy

Non-dyslexic person- right side brain is smaller than the left brain
Dyslexic person- leaders -neurons have to travel from left to right

2 different -surface:written dislexia, Phonological dislexia

Struggling readers/writers: Struggle with storing information as long term memory

Dog-4-10 more times written to remember, Dyslexia 500-1300 times to remember
They havent seen the word enough

STEP web was invented these words can be presented to children over and over in different ways.

Beginning of reading-oral language (child coming in at 2 and a half-year-old).  Teaching children how to talk. Not knowing labels.

2 years behind- very hard to catch up to where they need to be.

Teaching alphabet: sounds of the alphabets
Structured language way
MSL
Visual/Auditory/Kinesthetic

Getting children to read back of what it is written

4 unvoice sounds k, p, t,
Pure sounds m,
q with u 

Ground/grass/sky
encoding
CVC -Zap finger spelling isolating sounds everything we write, we say them back

Memory implications 
Constant repetition-multi sensory
Sounds-very crucial -hear sounds and associate those sounds to word patterns
Listening, responding, manipulating

1 in 7 people have a learning difference -learning differently
80%=2.5 years
sequential memory-remembering numbers