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Symptoms of Dyslexia

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Marisa Deguara

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Date Posted: 06:18:43 07/13/12 Fri

I have started reading the course handbook Module 1. The more I read about the symptoms of dyslexia the more I understand my students' frustrations. I work with a group of students who have been diagnosed with a profile of dyslexia or Specific Learning Difficulties.
I am observing one particular boy who is aged 9. He comes from a sound family background. However, he is the youngest of three siblings with an age gap of 13 years. Being the youngest of the family he has always been in the centre of attraction, and sometimes being spoiled rotten. For his age he is rather immature and to make matters worse he is also the youngest in his class.
He has so far exhibited poor reading and spelling skills and also has difficulties in Mathematics. Since the student is learning two languages simultaneously (Maltese, his native language and English) his literacy problems are more profound. Maltese is a phonetic language and this has caused further confusion in phonological awareness. However, he prefers reading in English rather than in Maltese. He has good comprehension skills in both languages.
My question is this...what are your opinions regarding such students learning more than one language? should they drop one of the languages and just focus on one?

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: Symptoms of Dyslexia and Bilingual Education	Kat	03:13:12 09/05/12 Wed
Re: Symptoms of Dyslexia and Bilingual Education -- Uma, 12:13:00 09/10/12 Mon
Re: Symptoms of Dyslexia	Bonnie	08:07:27 12/29/12 Sat