Confidently teaching students with dyslexia

Dyslexia is a lifelong literacy learning difference that can result in struggling to keep up with the demands of the curriculum, low selfesteem, low confidence, and disengagement at school. These elements are a by-product of dyslexia. At the core of dyslexia is difficulty learning to read words or spell them.

We are not born to instinctively understand the printed word. It is our job as educators to help all children, but if we don't have the appropriate knowledge and tools to support those with literacy learning differences such as dyslexia we can't do so. Here are some key things to consider: