Meeting the Needs of Students with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia

Southeastern Regional Association of Teacher Educators. Web site: http://www.srate.org/journal.html

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Dyslexia; Learning Disabilities; Special Needs Students; Student Characteristics; Teaching Methods; Educational Strategies; Task Analysis; Multisensory Learning; Legal Responsibility; Scaffolding (Teaching Technique); Evaluation Methods; Educational Legislation; Educational Practices

1068-1752

Understanding dyslexia and dyscalculia is not only important to helping students achieve, it has also been recently legislated in one southeastern state. The purpose of the North Carolina House Bill 149 is to ensure that students identified with learning disabilities, including dyslexia and dyscalculia, receive the appropriate assessment and intervention services. In this paper, the authors explain learning characteristics of both dyslexia and dyscalculia and highlight four empirically validated teaching strategies of increasing instructional intensity: (a) Task analysis; (b) Explicit instruction; (c) Multisensory instruction; and (d) Field-dependent approaches.

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2018

EJ1166703