Neurodiversity and Dyslexia. Introduction Neurodiversity Reframing what we think we know.

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Neurodiversity and Dyslexia

Introduction

Neurodiversity Reframing what we think we know

processing difficulties Auditory Visual Motor Time

paradigm shift laterality meaning

implications change in priorities – intervention s 'remediation' 'structural' – Responsibility shift in perspective – specific learning differences – core differences

cognitive styles “I am not someone with dyslexia. I am dyslexic. Were I not dyslexic, I would not be me.”

Strengths of Visual and Verbal Thinking VisualVerbal speedordered imaginativeanalytic creativecritical laterallogical inductivedeductive symbolicabstract overviewdetail patternselements multi-dimensional2-dimensional inter-relationshipscause and effect

Non dyslexic thinking preferences

Dyslexic thinking preferences

Short term memory

memorise E U C P I R T I G B

BIG PICTURE

processing meaning ‘software’ ‘machine code’ – holistic – sequential

role of 'working memory' ‘Difficulties’ ‘Talents’

neurodiversity

bagatelle model

Neurodiversity: ‘Overlapping conditions’ Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D

Dyslexia Dyspraxia Dyscalculia AD(H)D Multisensory to learn learning Active learning Feedback for Learning styles Overview 1 st

RANDOM

PATTERNS

INTERACTION

INDUCTIVE

SYNTHESIS

VISIONARY

Neurodiversity and Dyslexia