| Subject: Case Study learner 'P' and memory strategies |
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Johanne
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Date Posted: 03:21:28 03/11/09 Wed
I'm currently coming towards the end of the dyslexia teaching course and I thought that I would share one of my learners with you. Happy reading. Johanne
‘P’ is 17 years of age, has been excluded from mainstream education since he was 12 and has been involved with the criminal justice system since the age of 11.
‘P’ has not been diagnosed with dyslexia but displays the following symptoms: unable to follow 2 or 3 step instructions, unusual spelling, is late for appointments and confusion with left and right. ‘P’s’ positive features are, a good sense of humour, very artistic, has lots of energy, he’s keen to learn and he’s curious about how things work, especially cars and motorbikes.
When I work with 'P' we work for thirty minutes at a time if it’s Literacy or Numeracy so that he can have time to recover from what he’s just learnt. However, if he is doing work that he’s interested in then he can focus for a lot longer without the need to have regular breaks.
‘P’ is keen to learn to drive, but feels that due to him not being able to read as well as others as well as him confusing left from right he will be unable to. Recently we have been working on strategies for him to remember his left and right, ‘P’ has a home-made tattoo on his right forearm, it reminds him of bad times, so to remember right he thinks of ‘bad’ and to remember left he thinks of ‘good’ as he has no tattoo. Flash-cards are used to help him remember road signs as well as the braking-distance limit, which he has now memorised as a telephone number.
We still have a way to go but 'P' is improving and we encourage him to do so whilst he’s on our programme.
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