ED2090 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dysgraphia, Dyslexia, Occupational Therapist
Intervention for Learning Difficulties
Lecture Three – Week Three - Types of Learning disabilities: Dysgraphia (Part 2)
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- If you see something
- Present it
o You don’t have to be right
o Based on these tests, these have revealed significant info on the student
o It is hard to distinguish between a child who has dysgraphia, dyslexia, or both
- This is what we think
- Recommend that the child goes for further assessment
- People first language
- Week 1 lecture notes – assessment 2
o Tiers of intervention
- Comorbid
o 2 conditions existing at the same time
Overview
• What does it feel like?
• More terminology – word meanings
• What is dysgraphia
• Diagnosis
• Red flags
• Prevention
• Accommodations, modifications and remediation
What does it feel like?
• You will need a pen and paper for this activity.
What knowledge and skills did you need to complete this task efficiently?
• Working memory
o Hold the information in your head in order to copy it down
• Vision
o You need to see the board to copy it down
• Letter formation
o You need to know how t form each letter
• Handwriting
o You need fine motor control to copy the sentence
o You need to be legible and automatic (fluent)
• Grammar
o You need to know what a word is and what a sentence is
What’s in a word: Morphology and etymology
• ”dys”
o means poor, bad,
• “lexis”
o means word
• “graph”
o to write or draw
• “calcu(late)”
o determine through mathematical methods
• All of the above morphemes come from Greek (etymology)
• Morphology
o The structure of words
• Morpheme
o The smallest unit of meaning in our language (a part of a word – ‘dys’)
• Etymology
o The origin of the word (Where words come form)
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Document Summary
Lecture three week three - types of learning disabilities: dysgraphia (part 2) Present it: you don"t have to be right, based on these tests, these have revealed significant info on the student. It is hard to distinguish between a child who has dysgraphia, dyslexia, or both. Recommend that the child goes for further assessment. Week 1 lecture notes assessment 2: tiers of intervention. Comorbid: 2 conditions existing at the same time. Overview: what does it feel like, more terminology word meanings, what is dysgraphia, diagnosis, red flags, prevention, accommodations, modifications and remediation. What does it feel like: you will need a pen and paper for this activity. What knowledge and skills did you need to complete this task efficiently: working memory, hold the information in your head in order to copy it down, vision, you need to see the board to copy it down.
