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Subject: Accommodating or neglecting the needs of dyslexic children?

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Kat

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Date Posted: 01:39:16 09/17/12 Mon

Identifying dyslexia is part of the issue, but the further question has to be, what to do with the diagnosis? Do we insist that the education system to change and to take the focus from literacy, or that the students attain particular reading and writing standards, regardless of age and schooling?

My concern is that the accommodations recommended for dyslexic students (verbal instruction and assessment, focus on physical and social strengths, etc) can allow them to avoid the lacking literacy skills in the interest of keeping up socially.

I think the measures promoted for teaching dyslexic students are valuable, and that the social and emotional well being of every child is extremely important, however sending children further and further through the school system without the literacy skills they will need throughout their education and work lives could leave them unprepared and unarmed.

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