A different, more positive, way forward for dyslexics

All children have an innate  desire to learn but why and how do many dyslexic kids get turned off from education and learning?

We need to break the old paradigm of dyslexia being a specific learning difficulty. It has nothing positive to say to dyslexics or about dyslexia.

All it does is shackle us to negative sterotypes that are the real things that disable us. Dyslexia is a difference that represents the diversity inherent within humanity.

We dyslexics need an education system that enables us to learn within an inclusive learning environment.

One which would benefit and would be beneficial for all kids in any classroom. What we need are teachers who can provide inclusive learning opportunities within a classroom.

We need teacher training to provide teachers with the skiils they need to do this. We also need to give teachers the time to develop the learning materials that would enable them to do this. I dont blame teachers.

I blame politicians who are more concerned with league tables than they are with inclusion and enabling kids to succeed at school according to their abilities.

SCHOOL (ANXIOUS) SITUATIONS"Fontana (1995) suggests that children starting school ‘may find an apparent lack of ability means that they tend to receive less teacher approval and praise than other children’.

Trying hard, asking for help and not receiving any, can cause children enormous frustration, according to Edwards (1994).

It is important for teachers to recognise the frustration that dyslexics feel in classrooms through their inability to express their ideas in written form; inability to read books of interest (rather than for their reading age) and having to work considerably harder than their peers to attain the same achievement level, according to Thomson (1996).

When there is a basic mismatch between curriculum content and the needs of the dyslexic (e.g. reading/writing/spelling), there is ‘accelerating failure for increasing numbers of students’, according to Green (1996, p2). Hales (1995) suggests that there is strong evidence to suggest that dyslexics are more disturbed by criticism.

Hales found that dyslexics experience considerable amounts of criticism at school"

I realise this is old research but how much have things changed since this was done?