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The goal of this presentation is to provide the viewer with
informative information about dyslexia and present this information
with enthusiasm for the subject matter mixed in with a bit of
creativity
-I hope you learn a great deal and enjoy the presentation
Jhundeby, July 24, 2013
Summer Session I: June 12, 2013 to July 31, 2013
Course: Teaching Literature in Special Education
Professor: Dr. Mark Markell
TEXT: OVERCOMING DYSLEXIA A STRAIGHT-FORWARD GUIDE FOR FAMILIES AND
TEACHERS
Textbook review presentation by:
Dyslexia including:
Famous people with dyslexia
David Erickson will present a class activity on the topic of
dyslexia.
Joe Hundeby will discuss the author’s background and motivations
for the book. I will then finish with a presentation about advances
in the treatment of Dyslexia and the promise of the future.
OVERCOMING DYSLEXIA: A Straight-Forward Guide For Families and
Teachers by Dr. Beve’ Hornsby and Foreword by Susan Hampshire and
Anghardad Rees and Illustrated by Peter Cox
1985/1996
….very interesting
….practical
-allowing for future application in the field of special
education.
About the Author Beve Hornsby:
Bevé Hornsby (1915-2004) was a distinguished speech and language
therapist, psychologist, and educator, who played a pioneering role
in the understanding of dyslexia.
Throughout her professional life, Dr. Bevé Hornsby was undoubtedly
a mover and shaker; she loved to take on new challenges and was
never put off by red-tape, or what others might consider
insurmountable obstacles.
Susan Hampshire 1985
How she has contributed to the research of dyslexia:
Through her writing, professional practice and teacher-training she
brought the problems of people with dyslexia to recognition, and
her work stimulated many developments in the field of dyslexia
education.
Some of her past credentials include:
Dr. Hornsby has published several very respected books and journals
about dyslexia.
The Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists elected her to
a Fellowship in 1988 and her many contributions to Dyslexia were
honoured publicly by the award of the MBE in 1997.
About Dr. Hornsby’s diverse history and background in life:
Bevé Hornsby was born in 1915 in Camberley, Surrey. Although she
showed academic promise at school, she chose not to further her
education at this stage of her life.
Rather, Bevé was a student-member of the corps de ballet in the Vic
Wells Ballet Company, drove ambulances during the 2nd World War,
held a pilot’s licence and was a qualified teacher of ballroom
dancing.
Dr. Hornsby -A Late Start in working with disabled youth at age
50:
Bevé was 50-years-old she began training as a speech therapist at
the Kingdom Ward School in London. She qualified in 1969 and took
up her first post at the ‘Word Blind Clinic’ at St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital.
Only two years later in 1971 she was appointed head of the clinic
which soon expanded and became renowned as the Barts Dyslexia
Clinic.
Dr. Hornsby sets up the International Dyslexia Center for teacher
training:
After retiring from St. Bartholomew’s at the age of 65, Bevé set up
the Hornsby International Dyslexia Centre where she and her team
continued to offer teacher training courses and professional
services to children and adults with dyslexia.
The benefit of Dr. Hornsby’s clinical experiences:
While at the clinic she carried out studies on 243 dyslexics into
the causes of the condition; and many of the facts and statistical
figures which appear in this text.
Dr. Hornsby’s Movitation For Writing This Book:
By raising public awareness of dyslexia, this book will [hopefully]
lead to improved facilities for recognizing and teaching dyslexics.
If this is accomplished, “then it will fully have achieved its
purpose” (Hornsby, 1984, 1995).
A Summary Of The Readings:
In the first half of the book Hornsby shows how dyslexia can affect
every aspect of a child’s life, she describes the symptoms of
dyslexia, and advises parents and schoolteachers on what practical
help they can give. (see next slides).
A Summary Of The Readings:
Later on, she explain the diagnostic tests a child might be given,
she shows how successful specialist teaching can be given, she
gives tips on how students and adults can cope with their dyslexia,
and finally she guides the reader to take a look at the latest
theories on its (dyslexia) causes.
A Summary Of The Readings:
Coping with dyslexia?
General advice to give your child Relaxed discussion with your
young schoolchild about his dyslexia is very important to enable
him to cope. He will need a lot of reassurance that his problem
does not mean that he is stupid. ‘Have confidence in
yourself.
(Hornsby, 1984, 1995).
A Summary Of The Readings:
You are just as bright as other children and it’s not your fault
that reading and spelling are so difficult for you. Encourage him
to learn to laugh at himself when teased, and to reply with
something along the lines of, ‘I can’t spell, but you can’t sing in
tune.’ (p. 41)
(Hornsby, 1984, 1995).
A Summary Of The Readings:
There is no cure for dyslexia. However, relief is in sight. It is
no longer necessary to be distressed if your child is dyslexic,
because there are well-tried methods of teaching which greatly
improve the condition in the vast majority of cases. (Hornsby,
1984, 1995)
A Summary Of The Readings:
Chapters 4 , 5 and 6, author Hornsby demonstrates that there are
innumerable other ways in which dyslexics can be helped by
teachers, psychologists, speech therapists, family doctors, and of
course by their parents. She also shares that “there is also much
that the adolescent and adult dyslexic can do to help themselves”.
(p. 41). (Hornsby, 1984, 1995)
A Summary Of The Readings:
The author explains in Chapter 10 exactly how the dyslexic’s brain
is affected. “It is enough to say here that the root of the problem
is thought to be an inefficient connection between the left and
right halves of the brain”. (p. 103)
(Hornsby, 1984, 1995)
One Criticism of the text is the date of publication date:
The following represents current research about dyslexia
“Translational science being used for the public good”.
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity 2012
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZArHzb86MQ
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
Neural Mechanisms in Dyslexia by Sally E. Shaywitz, Maria Mody, and
Bennett A. Shaywitz, (2012)
Current Research on Dyslexia-
Within the last two decades, evidence from many laboratories has
converged to indicate the cognitive basis for dyslexia: Dyslexia is
a disorder within the language system and, more specifically,
within a particular subcomponent of that system, phonological
processing.
Translational science being used for the public good.
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, 2012
Converging evidence from a number of laboratories using functional
brain imaging indicates that there is a disruption of
left-hemisphere posterior neural systems in child and adult
dyslexic readers when they perform reading tasks.
What this new technology with brain scans is revealing-
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
Neural Mechanisms in Dyslexia by Sally E. Shaywitz, Maria Mody, and
Bennett A. Shaywitz, (2012)
New research on diagnosing Dyslexia-
EEG Scans- A new era in Neuro Sciences
Misdiagnosis-real problems left undetected and untreated.
Traditionally diagnosing based upon behavior, solely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZArHzb86MQ
The Acceptance of dyslexia-
The discovery of a disruption in the neural systems serving reading
has significant implications for the acceptance of dyslexia as a
valid disorder—a necessary condition for its identification and
treatment.
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
Neural Mechanisms in Dyslexia by Sally E. Shaywitz, Maria Mody, and
Bennett A. Shaywitz, (2012)
Irrefutable evidence found!
Brain-imaging findings provide, for the first time, convincing,
irrefutable evidence that what has been considered a hidden
disability is ‘‘real,’’ and these findings have practical
implications for the provision of accommodations, a critical
component of management for older children and young adults
attending post-secondary and graduate programs.
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
Neural Mechanisms in Dyslexia by Sally E. Shaywitz, Maria Mody, and
Bennett A. Shaywitz, (2012)
Translational science benefiting the public good-
The utilization of advances in neuroscience to inform educational
policy and practices provides an exciting example of translational
science being used for the public good.
Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity
Neural Mechanisms in Dyslexia by Sally E. Shaywitz, Maria Mody, and
Bennett A. Shaywitz, (2012)
What are the implications?
What does the future hold in the treatment of dyslexia?
Advanced brain scanning assessibility? (Hundeby, 2013)
Brain hemisphere stimulating medications? (Hundeby, 2013)
Hemisphere specific stimulating devices? (Hundeby, 2013)
To be continued….
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