Technology

Potential Barriers for Dyslexic Pupils:

• Readbility problems
• Accessing key words - reading and understanding
• Interactive whiteboard - glare hard to read
• Copying from the board
• Recording in writing
• Evaluation forms
• Poor organisation/planning skills
• Poor working memory - problems remembering instructions
• Use of tools for those with physical co-ordination difficulties

 

Ideas and Strategies to Overcome Potential Barriers:

• Make text more accesible through spacing out words, large font, visual supports, diagrams.
• Provide and explain key words.
• Use of interactive whiteboard - break up words and move letters for spelling, adjust background (purple background yellow text is popular).
• Provide a copy of information if it is needed for future reference - print out from laptop if on an interactive whiteboard.
• Allow student to use alternative methods of recording - peer and group working, mind mapping, cartoon format.
• Cloze - procedure activities.
• SEN pupil sharing own experience - what would have made things easier for him?
• Prompt sheet to support step-by-step planning.
• Give instructions in small chunks and provide visual support or prompts for memory.
• Specialist tools.