Supporting Children with Dyslexia: Strategies and Personalized Support Plan

This article discusses dyslexia, its impact on a child's learning and behavior, and strategies to support dyslexic children. It also provides a guide to creating a personalized support plan with review and monitoring processes.

CHCECE006 - Support behaviour of children and
young people
CHCECE006 Assessment 2 Question 1
Introduction to Assessment 2
Your supervisor has requested that you participate in the creation of a personalised
support plan for a child who has an identified learning need. Please use the numbered
points as subheadings of your project. To complete this task you are required to:
Question 1 A
Question
Name a specific learning need.
Answer:- Dyslexia is defined as reading disability in which children find difficulty in reading because
of issues identifying in learning how relates to letters and words and speech sound. It occurs due to
difference process of language in area of brain. In fluent reading is very crucial for children during
their learning age where dyslexia impairs children's capability to write and read. Generally, it affects
ability to match letters to sound, spelling and word recognition. Children living with dyslexia need
special care and support at their school as well home to enhance their reading skills.
Question 2 A
Question
Discuss how the learning need will impact on the learning of a student or child.
Answer:- Dyslexia affects the reading and learning ability of a child. Children are
usually not able to recognise words, speech and and graphic symbols. It has been
observes that children living with dyslexia, have high level of intellectual ability and
IQ. Dyslexics are not good at reading books but they are good at reading people
while communicating. Thy are great conversationalist. Reading skills help children to
read and gather more knowledge where as dyslexia is barrier to children which
interrupt their learning. Children become less curious as they are not able to read
the books and gather knowledge for their personal development.

Question 3 A
Question
Discuss how the learning need will impact on the individual student’s or child’s behaviour
Answer:- Student may be socially and physically immature in comparison to other
normal children. Dyslexia children do not get peer acceptance and have poor self-
image. Children feel awkward in social situation due to lack of confidence. Children
often feel anxiety while reading as dyslexia affects children's reading habit. Children
invest a lot of effort and energy into avoiding writing, reading, sequencing, maths
and spelling. Children often fight and argue with siblings and peers. Dyslexic children
feel depressive and isolated. They often feel they are the only one who are suffering
so. Sometimes, they might be frustrated and angry.
Question 4 A
Question
Identify two methods of observation and data collection you could use. Why were these
methods chosen?
Answer:- Simple and systematic observation and casual and scientific methods are
used for the observation. Interviews and questionnaires and surveys are two
methods for data collection. Asking questions is helpful to collect, interpret and
analyse the data from individual students. This method is very useful to identify
special needs of individual child. Casual and scientific observation deals with
observation with a casual approach which helps to observe the accurate data of an
individual and uses tools for the measurement of the data.
Question 5 A
Question
Discuss the strategies you could apply to document these observations. Who should this
be discussed with?
Answer:- Documentation can be tape recording,videoing and photography. It need to
be confidential. Documentation totally depends upon the observation. It is all about
child doing. Note-taking is the easiest way of documentation if the observer is not
experienced. Documentation is often used to ultimately assess children's learning,
development and growth. These documents must be in written format and stored in
computers to ensure the safety. Unauthorised access to documents must be
avoided. During interview, observation can be recorder in a tape recorder to collect
the evidence.
Question 6 A
Question
Clearly discuss support strategies to adapt the environment, learning and any additional
support that you think that this student or child might require.
Answer: there are different ways through which a dyslexia student can be supported
to accept the environment and learning. These strategies are following:

 make a collaborative and supportive classroom environment: make a
collaborative and supportive environment of classroom through getting to
know all the dyslexia learners as individuals and motivating them to know
each another . It will assist the learners to feel comfortable thinking about
approach to do all the task and asking for help.
 Offers learners choice: offer the choice of dyslexia student in the way they
engage with their task to create learning more inclusive and meaningful to
him.
Question 7 A
Question
Outline two (2) strategies for verbal and two (2) strategies for non-verbal communication
that you would apply while supporting this child.
Answer: Child can be provided with verbal and non verbal communication. Verbal
communication need to be transparent and simple to make child understand things
easily. A positive verbal environment need to be creates to support the child. Active
listening is used to communicate with child. Child need to be encouraged during the
conversations. A comfortable eye contact is required to be maintained during
communication. Carer need to pay close attention what child says.
Question 8 A
Question
Create a personalised support plan for this child ensuring that you build in the review
and monitoring processes in the support plan.
Answer: A child is required to be given all the medicines as per his current health
status. His health status is examined on a regular basis to ensure his safety.
Emotional and intellectual support is provided to child to meet with his requirement.
All the accessories are provided to the child for his educational development.
Behavioural changes of child need to be monitored to know whether the support
care plan is effective for the child or not.