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Back to SearchREADING INSTRUCTION IN SPECIAL ED WORLD: WE'VE GOT PROBLEMS
Season 4 Episode 5
This study examines four interconnecting elements within Special Ed World: (a) reading instruction, (b) data-resistant theoretical constructs, (c) pa…
5 years, 10 months ago
DYSLEXIA: MULTISENSORY INSTRUCTION
Season 3 Episode 11
.An individual Orton-Gillingham course costs over $2,000 and associate level training costs $4,000 plus $250 for materials. There are various levels …
5 years, 10 months ago
FIDELITY OR EDUCATIONAL MALPRACTICE?
Season 4 Episode 3
Fidelity is a term often misused by the designers of commercially-prepared reading interventions and by decision-makers outside the classroom. Teache…
5 years, 11 months ago
DYSLEXIA AND FREE VOLUNTARY READING (FINK STUDY)
Season 3 Episode 10
Rosalie Fink (Fink, 1996; Fink, 1998) Interviewed successful men and women with dyslexia to see why they were able to be so successful despite their …
5 years, 11 months ago
DYSLEXIA: INTERVENTIONS AND CLASSROOM SUPPORT
Season 3 Episode 9
Intervention sessions for students with dyslexia should occur no less than four days a week and should include variations of seven elements: (1) word…
5 years, 11 months ago
EYE MOVEMENT DURING READING
Season 4 Episode 2
As you read sentences on a page your eyeballs do not move from left to right, letter-to-letter, word-to-word in a straight, steady line. If you were …
5 years, 11 months ago
DYSLEXIA, THE INTERNATIONAL DYSLEXIA ASSOCIATION, AND ORTON-GILLINGHOAM
Season 3 Episode 8
This is my 3rd podcast related to dyslexia. It addresses the International Dyslexia Association and Orton-Gillingham reading "instruction" and state …
5 years, 11 months ago
LANGUAGE EXPERIENCE ACTIVITIES
Season 4 Episode 1
Language experience activities are an effective strategy to use with beginning level readers. Here students dictate an experience or story to the tea…
5 years, 11 months ago
THE IMPORTANCE OF READING PRACTICE FOR ALL STUDENTS
Season 4 Episode 4
Reading practice is incredibly important. Extensive reading has been linked to improvement in general knowledge, vocabulary, spelling, verbal fluency…
5 years, 11 months ago
DYSLEXIA: INTERVENTIONS AND INSTRUCTION
Season 3 Episode 7
Students with dyslexia need more intense versions of the types of reading instruction that occurs within a general education setting. Intensity here …
5 years, 11 months ago