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Dyslexia friendly teaching filter

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Dyslexia-Friendly Teaching Filter

I made this dyslexia-friendly filter for two reasons:

  1. I needed to get across to some volunteers I was training in a London prison, an easy way of thinking as to how to make their sessions more dyslexia-friendly. Quite a few of the prisoners were dyslexic, had weak reading skills or had English as an additional language.
  2. When training education students, who have little experience or understanding of SpLD/ dyslexia, how with putting their lesson plans though the ‘filter’, if they can answer yes to all the sections, they know that their lesson is dyslexia-friendly (which of course is best practice for all, anyway!)
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