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Subject: SLCN and dyslexia

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Jan

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Date Posted: 17:32:53 07/03/10 Sat

I am working as a Technical Instructor for speech and language therapy. Part of my role is to support pupils in the SLCN centre attached to out local secondary school. Although this is not specifically dyslexia, there are many similarities and we do have one or two dyslexic pupils. I have found that there is a massive link between the development of oral language and the impact of this on written language. Research has shown that written and spoken langugae difficulties both stem from difficulties in the speech processing system. Children with developmental spoken phonological difficulties may have no difficulty with learning to read and write but for those with persistent disordered speech patterns, this is not the case. It was identidfied by Stackhouse that phonological awareness is a vital foundation skill in learning to read and spell.

I have found this fascinating in my work and phonological awareness is certainly something that we spend a lot of time on for children with disordered speech.

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