Kahui Ako Conference Workshop 1

Workshop 1 Special needs in literacy- dyslexia, struggling literacy learners, STEPS.

Cathy Baine & Bernie Dobbyn & Darren Cutler

Cathy Baine
STEPS

• Dyslexics have 10% more brain than others.
• Neurons travel from the right to the left brain
• Can hear and isolate sounds but find it difficult to write down letters
• have trouble storing knowledge in the long term memory

Sound is crucial in letter recognition to support reading and writing for dyslexics

Bernie Dobbyn

Memory complications

Research shows:

An average reader needs only 4 - 10 exposures to a word and fix it into 

long-term memory.

 

A dyslexic learner may need 500-1300 exposures!

Multi-sensory

Darren Culler

1 in 7 people has a learning difference

80% = 2.5yrs

V A K/T

Entrance Testing

Lucid - Cognition

• Sequential memory
• Visual Discrimination 
• Visual memory
• Auditory Discrimination
• Phonemic Awareness
• Reasoning Ability