Outside the Square is a series of professional learning films to empower children with dyslexia in Australian schools.
The scene is set with our brave and inspirational children supported by their proactive parent advocates. They share their struggles and difficulties encountered in our current education system. Our journey continues through the eyes of teachers that have embraced change. Through their shared experiences and supported by Australia’s leading education researchers, we develop a deep understanding of dyslexia and showcase effective teaching strategies to assist students with dyslexia.
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Who is the woman teaching in this video, and what resource is she using? I'm looking for a SOR curriculum.
Brooke has developed her own resources based on the pedagogy of explicit instruction. She often does PD sessions with Learning Difficulties Australia. ldaustralia.org/
Thanks for sharing
As a mother of a highly dyslexic child, thank you so much for this series. I hope one day something similar is done for the high school years as just about all information and support services are directed at primary level. These children even after intervention still struggle in high school on a different scale. I would also go as far to say that high school teachers are even less knowledgeable about dyslexia than their primary colleagues. Every year, we have at least one teacher who does not understand or believes in dyslexia. My teenager in year 9 is now learning ways to study and learn independently. As she looks at going to year 12 she not only still does intervention but is also learning ways to learn her way independently. Teachers not willing to learn about dyslexia or read IEP’s severely affect her learning at this level as well as her ability to finish year 12.
Hi Lisa, my son is now in Year 12 and this has been a marathon. I agree that films for the secondary school years would be really valuable.
STOP LYING TO THESE CHILDREN AND YOUR SELVES. it's clearly identifyable. This proves it. But we're not responsible for success without family and friends to help. Without them were screwed. Were forced to sit quietly in a room with 30 others for 12 years told it's up to us but expected to sit quietly while they learn and you don't. Promised a future that's not possible. I call that psychological grooming and abuse. 10%of these children will not have what they need to function in cosiety! There successes will be used against them. Told it's proff there capable just lasy!!!!!!! That's what NDIS tribunal did to me!!!!! NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothings changed. in fact it's getting worse. We aren't dum and have a lot to give that's true. but it's not our folt or in our capacity to change predudice against us. I've wasted my life Tring to achieve what others take for granted. What have I got for it.NOTHING. now my body is failing in my 50s I'm burnt out from trying SO hard needing more care than I have. Just because we can learn to read doesn't mean we will be able to do it at a pace and volume others can. Or hold the types of jobs our interlect craves. Everything I've tried has failed because at some point there's been a missing link in the chain I can't get over under round or through. AND IVE TRIED. I'VE TRIED HARD. It's so sole destroying to get so far you can taste success yet you can't achieve it. There always some sort of invisible barrier in the way. Others can't see. Now NDIS has sucked up alsorts of survives that we could scrounge occasional help from and won't let us in. Don't even get me started on how the rites of the disadvantaged in this country realy are. Just look at the elderly and there level of care.you only hear about the ones with family who care enough to find out and speak up. Courts don't even provide disability adjustments. That's were were at really. If you can't for your self your screwed. I still haven't been able to read my NDIS tribunal desision. All I know is it says No. but I can apply again in writing without any adjustments for my disability that is clear. Because that's how it was. My next bucket list is a trip to Switzerland for a uthenasia holiday. I'm scared I'll get scammed and end up in a darkened snuff film. Because I'm weekest at selecting real from frauds after all government is full of lies. But these not even anyone to help with that. I'll just have to take my chances. Stop with to good news stories. The bad ones will be found homeless verbally. Not in comments like this format. Get real. It's abuse. Parents find it hard in school to champion for there children. How do you think children whos parents also sing the song of your just lasy will get along. Even most that acheve will be below there capablities. What a waste of life and potential in this country. Sorry I'm so negative but someone has to be real. The truth is ugly. I think the worst is like most invisible disabilities it's easier to believe the propaganda that we have equity in this country. When we don't. The advert on TV don't cater for my level of disability. I just tried to look up a website mentioned on TV. It took me ages to find. It was a wall of text. Recommending books. Fat lot of help that was. (PS this is a great video please don't get the wrong idea. It needs sharing and real discussion and debate.)
Thank you so much for sharing your raw experiences Julie. This is heartbreaking and is all due to a simple lack of awareness and understanding. Keep speaking up, with groundswell comes change.
Why it is not officially recognised as a learning disability?
Hi Eccomi, dyslexia is recognised as a disability under the Disability Discrimination Act (1992) and Disability Standards in Education (2005). Here is a handy link: codereadnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/Factsheet_Dyslexia_and_the_law.pdf
@@tanyaforbes3707 thank you so much for this.
If your dyslexic do the country a favour and don’t have children.
They ignore it because they teach what is for them a generalized version of reading, that everyone will eventually pick up. If they recognize that some students will not pick up, and will need structured interventions, then they will now have to realize that the public will expect that it must now be part of the learning agenda that the school must provide. Therefore, that will involve a new item in the budget. In other words they want to avoid spending money. I was an Education Assistant, and I felt that someone had to care, and i would preach- but it was really to the walls-that it is difficult for students to learn if they cannot read. One of the schools at which I worked had Sally Shaywitz' s book on dyslexia, but I do not think anyone ever read it. When people train as teachers, it as if they become the font of eternal knowledge, so there is nothing more to learn.
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Can someone please tell me what the app is at 2:08 in this video ?
Hi Marnie, the app that features in the films is Reading Doctor www.readingdoctor.com.au/
As an educator I find this program very confronting, but mostly in a good way. There is so much more to be done to ensure that all students are catered for. My only gripe would be that so many of the symptoms of dyslexia overlap with so many other disorders and difficulties. On top of that you have social-emotional perspectives that may be affecting a child and that can change from day to day. What I am saying is, as a teacher, you yourself are processing 100 things at once and it is not necessarily a teacher's fault if they have not picked up on specific problems and diagnosed it themselves. However, if there was a streamlined process for identifying at-risk students in the first 2 years of school, then there would be no excuse, but often there is no straightforward way to recommend assessment without a very uncomfortable conversation with parents. I suppose what I am saying is, there should be a national approach that offers support by Speech Pathologists or other experts IN CLASS that all teachers can access as soon as they have concerns, without expecting them to diagnose the problem first and try to explain that to parents.
This series of videoas are so well produced and contain very important information and messages to support Dyslexic children. Thank you . My hope is they will be viewed by many and there will be a greater understanding around how to recognise, support and empower these children in their education. I first viewed these videos 3 years ago and they set out family on the path to supporting our children with Dyslexia, it was life changing and so appreciated as we were on a terrible Merry go round at the time.
This is what teaching literacy is all about!!!
Thanks for sharing film 2 on KZread Tanya. Some very important information about Dyslexia in this film.
Brilliant, such a powerful message and full of positive inspiration. I was educated during the late 50s, 60s and early 70s so many of the reflections at the beginning brought me back to those early years of dunces hats, face in corners and so on. I would look at other and wonder why, how, what do they see and understand that I can't. In my final year in the bottom English class, the teacher asked what each of us what we wanted to do next year. Response were hair dresser, bank clerk shop assistant then I said I plan on going to University to study Clinical Psychology. She laughed and said I was stupid and wouldn't matriculate. I did, start Psychology but couldn't write the type of essays required and there was no help, changed to education. I was a high school Visual Arts teacher, head of department, HSC marker and wrote many teaching programs. I'm now retired and writing stories for children and travel memories, and I employ an editor to correct my spelling, grammar and advice on sentence structure. I'm know as a teacher/person with a wacky imagination, lateral fast thinker but there are days when I don't recognise simple words like school, or whole sentences, and the task of reading a form or instructions in black text on white paper is extremely difficult. I'm sorry this is so long and I hope it makes sense.
Hi Anita, thank you so much for your compliments! It is really sad so that so little has changed. Hopefully things will change now.
Tanya,I'm dyslexic..but ,it's in math,not language,orreading
One day I would love to do a film on dyscalculia, difficulty with numbers.
This is such an amazing and important film Tanya. Thanks for sharing it on KZread. I look forward to film 2 and 3 also being released on KZread.
Thanks Dan! Please share far and wide.
I will Tanya. :)
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