Young Czech Artist Helps Dyslexic Children
A Around
five percent of Czech school-goers are diagnosed with dyslexia. Although it has
been proven that there is no direct link between dyslexia and IQ dyslexic
children are often labelled slow and problematic, hampering them from making full use of their potential. A new
learning aid aims to change that.
B
Children who are in any way different generally suffer for it in the classroom.
It took years for the Czech education system to accept left-handers for what
they were and not force them to write with their right hand. Now, teachers are
being made to recognize that a dyslexic child can be as intelligent – or more
intelligent – than a child without learning disabilities. Last week a young
Czech artist – herself a dyslexia sufferer – presented the public with an
audio-visual primer she produced in
cooperation with experts from Charles
University.
C Alena
Kupčíková explains what the new learning technique is based on. “Children
suffering from dyslexia tend to use the right hemisphere of the brain more than
the left which influences their perception of things. They tend to think in pictures, which makes it hard for them to work
with letters and written words. So our learning aid is based on using pictures
to help them recognize letters in what appears to be a foreign and confusing
environment. But it is possible that our primer will help all children learn to
read because our first perception of new things tends to be visual.”
D Alena
Kupčíková spent six years working with pre-school children and first graders in
order to get as much information as possible for the primer. In the learning
process children are encouraged to play with the shapes of letters and look for
them in a given environment. You have pictures in motion on screen which
children have to spot or move elsewhere. The combination of work with colour,
sound, shape and movement has produced excellent results and dyslexia experts
in other countries have shown interest in the idea.
E “The
first to contact were experts from Slovakia – who want a Slovak
version of what we are offering Czech children, and because my work is known
abroad other countries have expressed interest as well. We are cooperating with
education specialists in Great Britain,
Canada, France and Germany to produce different
language versions. It is a lot of work but now that the Czech version is done
we hope to move on and have the English and German versions ready by the end of
the year.”
hampering – brzdící
perception – vnímání
primer – slabikář
to tend – mít sklon
1) Read the article and match each of the headings to a paragraph.
1 A new learning aid
2
International interest
3
Work with colour, sound, shape and movement
4
Teachers have to find out dyslexic children can be intelligent
5
Alena Kupčíková explains the principle of the new learning technique
2) Read the article and answer the questions.
1
What is the article about?
2
Who is Alena Kupčíková?
3
What and who did she cooperate in her primer with?
4
What are problems of Czech teachers in connection with the disabled students?
5
What do the foreign experts say about the primer?
3) Explain the following words.
1
dyslexia
2
learning aid
3
different
4
left-hander
5
pre-school children
4) Answer the following questions.
What
are types of learning handicaps? What are learning aids used by the handicapped
children? What is IQ? What are its levels?
1)1.A, 2.E,3.D, 4.B, 5.C
ReplyDelete2)1. The article is about Czech artist which helps children with dyslexia.And abot their pictures which creates.
2. It´s a Czech artist. She worked a six years on the primer for pre-school children.
3. She is cooperate with exerts from Charles Univertisty.
4. They speak about ability. Spoke slowly
5. her work is known abroad other countries have expressed interest as well. It is a lot of work
3)1. dyslexia- It's a general disorder learning to read. It is a learning disability
2. learning aid - it is a noun. It is a special education material.
3. different - It is an adjective. It's not the same as, another it is synonym
4. left- hander - it is a noun. It is a people when writes and does thing left hand
5. pre- school children - it is a children in kindergarten or elementary school.It is a noun.
4) 1. Types learning handicaps are dyslexia, dysgraphia, dysgraphia,dysmusia
dyscalculia, dysorthographia.
2. Learning aids for example special pen, read window, special primer and so on
3. It is and intelligent quotient level of intelligence
144+ Very gifted
130–144 Gifted
120–129 Superior
110–119 High average
90–109 Average
80–89 Low average
70–79 Borderline