Tools and countervailing measures dispensatory Dall ' school office in Lombardy
Prot N. 13987Milano, November 3, 2004
For Dirigentidegli scolasticistatali and equal Institutes of LombardiaLORO
OFFICES Subject: Dyslexia and Specific Learning Difficulties: tools and countervailing measures dispenser. Please note the attention of
SS.LL. The following note prepared by AID - Italian Dyslexia Association and endorsed by this Office that the Regional School, on the issues in question, put be in collaboration with the said organization in order to prepare interventispecificatamente addressed to school staff.
Dyslexia is a specific learning disorder that can occur in otherwise normal children, ie without neurological handicap or disadvantage sensorialiocondizioni sociale.La reading difficulties may be more or less severe and is often accompanied by problems in the writing and / or in the calculation. The development of scientific knowledge has revealed that it is a constitutional characteristic, biologically determined and not due to psychological problems or social-culturale.Queste difficulties persist after the first phase of acquisition and manifest themselves in a difficult relationship with the written text and its decoding. It 'easy to understand how a culture like ours, so closely linked to writing, this problem affects heavily affecting the life of the school and later life professionale.Molti of these guys are not recognized as dyslexic and do not get any facilitation or adaptation of education that allows them to have equal apprendimento.Il lack of recognition has important psychological consequences, often leads to the abandonment of the school and sometimes a low-level professional future in spite of the potential of creativity and intelligence that these guys show. Also affects on personality development and undermines a social adjustment equilibrato.Anche if approved, the dyslexic children currently do not enjoy any special protection, in contrast to what happens in many European countries.
To be able to read and write must be committed to most of their abilities and their energies, it is very tiring and undertake a long time, are slow, too slow, make mistakes, and words jump righe.Altra feature is the replacement for reading and writing of letters with handwriting similep bdg q-a / or - and / ao sounds like: t / d - r / l - d / b - v / f and other unforeseeable circumstances.
Many dyslexics have difficulty - in alphabetical impararel'ordine, the days of the week, months in order .- including verbal expression of thought, have a poor vocabulary and memorize the words .- difficult to recognize the morphological characteristics of the Italian language, grammar quasisempre performance are inadequate.
Many dyslexics also have dyscalculia, or fail to: - learn the times tables to do calculations in-auto-regressive-numbers to learn the procedures of arithmetic operations.
Virtually all dyslexics have great difficulty learning foreign languages, especially written, and the main difficulty is represented by the English because of the very marked differences between writing and pronunciation of letters between the pronunciation and writing a same letter in different words.
For the above reasons School directors are encouraged to urge teachers to apply the tools and countervailing measures dispense in respect of students with specific learning disabilities (SLD reported by health services) in all stages of their schooling, including the moments of the final evaluation. Tools
countervailing
- Table of months, and the various characters of the alphabet table, - multiplication table - size chart, tables, formulas, - calculator, - recorder - estore maps, tables of all types of memory- computers with word processors with spelling and speech, commensurate with the individual case-cassettes (teachers, pupils, and / or attached to the texts), also through the establishment of a sound library in every school in the school which the spoken text of the books up for adoption, and other culturally significant texts, (possibility of collaboration with the Center of the Book in spoken Italian Blind Union)
dictionaries Foreign language computer, tables, translators
request to the publishers to produce texts also reduced and containing audio-cassette or cd-rom
The use of such measures, which does not require reporting under L.104/92, but only Specialist diagnosis is essential and consistent with the personalization of education, in order not to affect the educational success of those present DSA.In particular, L.104/92 is applicable only in the presence of any physical disability or mental or sensory impairment, which does not occur where there are learning difficulties, disorders found only in subjects with at least normal intelligence and without disabilities of any tipo.Solo in severe cases, at the discretion the specialist public health facility (diagnosis) which deems it necessary and indicate explicitly in their diagnosis, the report will be useful ex L.104/92.
parallel, in a manner appropriate to the individual needs and the extent of the disturbance of learning, you will need to ensure the pantry from some performances such as:
reading out loud, fast writing from dictation, reading supplies, use vocabulary, study of mnemonic tables;
dispensation from the study of languages \u200b\u200bstranierein writing, because of the difficulties represented by the difference between writing and pronunciation;
lunghiper written tests and more time to study, through appropriate organization of the connection between spazied unflessibile teachers;
organization of questions planned allocation
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possibility of use of text content not reduced, but the quantity of pages (as is already invar European countries including Britain, where there is the same text large or small for dyslexics). The Director
Generalef.to Mario G. Dutton
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