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Reading and related language-based learning disabilities
Signs and Symptoms
- Reads slowly and painfully
- Experiences decoding errors, especially with the order of letters
- Shows wide disparity between listening comprehension and reading
comprehension of some text
- Has trouble with spelling
- May have difficulty with handwriting
- Exhibits difficulty recalling known words
- Has difficulty with written language
- May experience difficulty with math computations
- Decoding real words is better than nonsense words
- Substitutes one small sight word for another: a, I, he, the,
there, was
Strategies
- Provide a quiet area for activities like reading, answering
comprehension questions
- Use books on tape
- Use books with large print and big spaces between lines
- Provide a copy of lecture notes
- Don’t count spelling on history, science or other similar
tests
- Allow alternative forms for book reports
- Allow the use of a laptop or other computer for in-class essays
- Use multi-sensory teaching methods
- Teach students to use logic rather than rote memory
- Present material in small units
Excerpted from the LDA of California and UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute
"Q.U.I.L.T.S." Calendar 2001-2002 |
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