Supporting young people with dyslexia
I use a Multi sensory approach when working with children and young adults with dyslexia.
A multisensory approach is crucial in dyslexia because it addresses the learning challenges faced by individuals with dyslexia by engaging multiple senses simultaneously, helping them learn and retain information more effectively. This method strengthens neural connections, making learning more resilient and enhancing memory and comprehension. By incorporating visual, auditory, tactile, and kinaesthetic activities, multisensory instruction helps bridge the gap between students’ strengths and their weaknesses, fostering a more engaging and accessible learning environment.
- Enhanced Memory and Retention:
Engaging multiple senses simultaneously stimulates different areas of the brain, strengthening neural pathways and improving memory and retention. - Improved Phonological Awareness:
Multisensory instruction helps students understand the relationship between sounds and letters, a crucial skill for reading and spelling. - Bridging the Gap Between Strengths and Weaknesses:
It allows students to utilize their strengths (e.g., visual-spatial skills) to compensate for their challenges (e.g., phonetic decoding). - Concrete and Engaging Learning:
By making abstract concepts more tangible and engaging through various activities, multisensory learning can help students grasp and remember information more effectively. - Increased Confidence and Motivation:
Multisensory learning can foster a more positive learning experience, boosting confidence and motivation in students.
Conquering Literacy
The Conquering Literacy Programme is a structured, multisensory teaching program designed for children and young people with dyslexia and other specific literacy difficulties. It aims to improve reading, spelling, and writing skills through a cumulative, hands-on approach that addresses the specific needs of learners with dyslexia. The programme also considers factors like memory, information processing, and automaticity, which can be affected by dyslexia
Each session is one hour long, it follows a set pattern, starting with alphabet or dictionary work, a review of previous learning, reading routine, new learning, handwriting, review and game.