{"id":1406,"date":"2019-12-03T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T01:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2021-02-26T05:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T05:21:23","slug":"dyslexia-graphic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/dyslexia-graphic\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyslexia Graphic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1407\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/files\/2019\/11\/Its-a-chair-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/files\/2019\/11\/Its-a-chair-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/files\/2019\/11\/Its-a-chair.jpg 556w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As the old saying goes, &#8220;Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>My daughter (an elementary teacher) recently shared this classic graphic from Orton Gillingham. It&#8217;s an excellent illustration of how a someone with the characteristics of dyslexia may perceive letters, and why the way his\/her brain works is not just a matter of being &#8220;wrong.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It also shows why so-called &#8220;learning disabled&#8221; children often AREN&#8217;T. We simply don&#8217;t teach the way that their brains learn. And what wonders are we missing because we can&#8217;t appreciate their unique perspective?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s definitely something worth thinking about &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the old saying goes, &#8220;Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.&#8221; My daughter (an elementary teacher) recently shared this classic graphic from Orton Gillingham. It&#8217;s an excellent illustration of how a someone with the characteristics of dyslexia may perceive letters, and why the way his\/her brain works is not just a matter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,239,237,103,240,238,56],"class_list":["post-1406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bill-morelan","tag-disabled-children","tag-dyslexia-graphic","tag-effective-teaching-model","tag-elementary-teacher","tag-learning-disabled","tag-teaching-techniques","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1887,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions\/1887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.atu.edu\/morelan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}