SED 521 - Introduction to Dyslexia

Credits: 3
Prerequisite(s): Bachelor’s degree
Term: Varies

This course focuses on teaching beginning reading, spelling, and handwriting to children exhibiting traits of dyslexia using a structured literacy approach. This approach requires explicit, direct, multisensory structured, phonetic approach to teaching basic language skills. The NICHD/IDA definition of dyslexia, which includes the neuroscience of reading, will be presented and discussed. Lecture and50semester topics include: understanding the speech-sound system of language, common orthographic rules and patterns, syllable types and syllabication. The course includes current research that supports this approach for children exhibiting the traits of dyslexia. Dyslexia screening tools, accommodations, modifications, and teaching strategies, necessary to support a student with dyslexia in the general education classroom will also be discussed.