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Subject: Re: Copying from the board

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mairie

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Date Posted: 15:35:22 10/01/10 Fri
In reply to: Marie Cook 's message, "Re: Copying from the board" on 13:29:24 09/23/10 Thu

Copying from the board is a task that is often very difficult for the dyslexic child.

There are two major problems at work here.

The first is a lack of visual memory. This means that the dyslexic child cant remember a phrase or sentence at a time, but instead has to copy word by word or even letter by letter.

The second is that the dyslexic child often has an associated lack of visual discrimination, meaning that it is hard to find his place when looking back up at the board.

As you can imagine these two problems greatly increase the time taken, so that a dyslexic child will still be struggling to copy text when everyone else has finished. The teacher tends to take a consensus when asking if it is ok to scroll up or rub out the first bits of information.

The end result is that the dyslexic child misses out a big chunk of information in the middle, leading to misunderstanding, a sense of frustration and failure, and perhaps incomplete recording of tasks set.

In my experience teachers underestimate the importance of this practical difficulty. If they did, they might make every effort to take a photocopy of the material for each dyslexic child in their care and hand it out.

I note that you say that this is not always possible, although I would have thought it should be part of lesson planning.

For teachers who find this is not always possible, I'm sure they take the reciprocal view that it is not always possible, with the best will in the world, for the dyslexic child to have a complete set of homework questions, or indeed a complete set of notes from the lesson.

Unfortunately I have found through the experience of navigating two dyslexic children through the UK education system that this is not always the case.

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