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Understanding Dyslexia: Research Supported Screeners, Strategies, and Methods that Work

  • Putnam Northern Wetchester BOCES 200 Boces Drive Yorktown Heights, NY, 10598 United States (map)

In this workshop, educators will learn the most current research on how to best support students with dyslexia. Educators will look at the most commonly used screeners and what they offer, as well as signs at each grade level that students may need specific support. Educators will walk away with research-based strategies they can use to identify and effectively teach studenst with dyslexia.

Educators will learn:

  1. What dyslexia is (and is not)

  2. Signs of dyslexia at different age/grade levels from preschool to 4th grade and beyond

  3. What to look for in screeners

  4. How to give and interpret data from screeners to drive interventions

  5. Critical elements of teaching students with dyslexia

  6. Orthographic mapping routines that work for students with dyslexia

  7. How explicit instruction supports all-and specifically students with dyslexia

  8. Strategies and instructional methods that work for the dyslexic brain

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