Outside the Square

Empowering children with

dyslexia in our schools

About: Outside the Square

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Sadly, dyslexia is currently the forgotten learning

disability in our education system.....

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Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that affects a child’s ability to

develop a strong understanding of language - it

impacts on reading, spelling and writing

Tom Cruise

“Being dyslexic I had to train myselfto focus my attention. I became very visual and learned how to createmental images in order to comprehend what I had read”

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The occurrence of dyslexia is

widespread10% of the population is directly affected

20% of the population is on the continuum.

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Most children with dyslexia find school so difficult that their opportunities are limited,

their self esteem gets damaged and many children have to endure bullying and

embarrassment on a daily basis.

Jamie Oliver

“It is with great regret that I didnot do better at school. People thought I was thick.It was a struggle. I neverhad anyone to help that understood dyslexia or could bring out my strengths.”

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Students with dyslexia are protected by the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) and the Disability Standards for Education (2005) as:

... ‘a disorder or malfunction that results in the person learning differently from a person without the disorder or malfunction’...

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In 2005, the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy (NITL) recommended:

‘....that teachers provide systematic, direct and explicit phonics instruction so that children master the essential alphabetic code-breaking skills required for foundational reading proficiency.....’

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EARLY! EARLY! EARLY!

Early identification

early prevention and

early intervention

are important as

TIME is precious!

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Dyslexia is identifiable with a 92% accuracy at the age of 5.5 years old(National Institute of Child Health and Development 1998)

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74% of poor readers in the 3rd grade remained poor readers in the 9th grade(Francis et al 1996)

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Students that have not attained reading fluency by the end of 3rd grade cost 7-8 times as much in time and money(Wendorf, 2005)

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In 2010, the National Dyslexia Working Party produced a list of recommendations for a National Agenda

This list of recommendations is yet to be implemented.

The government asked THEN where are all the parents???

Let's show them we are here NOW!!!

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Children with dyslexia have some amazing cognitive strengths...

they are 'outside the square' ....creative, insightful and

divergent thinkers.

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Children with dyslexia can learn....

they just learn DIFFERENTLY! Effective teaching strategies for students with dyslexia

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Outside the Square will close the knowledge-to-action gap

in our classrooms and the policy-to-practice gap

evident in most schools. 

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This project is community driven by parents and educators passionate about social justice

and education reform for children with dyslexia.

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We need a blanket awareness of dyslexia in education and we

want a better understanding of the learning needs of students

with dyslexia.

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Outside the Square will bring the necessaryknowledge and skills

to EVERY teacher...

in EVERY class...

in EVERY school.

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Please PLEDGE and POST to be part of the community responsible for

national education reform for children with dyslexia!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1130224036/outside-the-square