Case study Pupil B (P7)

Pupil B was given an identification of dyslexia when she was in P6.    She is a friendly popular girl who works hard in class.  She enjoys Art and Drama and attends weekly dancing lessons.

Pupil B has great oral skills and contributes well to both group and class discussions.  Although she manages to access most curricular texts, her reading is very slow and well below chronological age.  Pupil B has a visual disturbance and uses a green coloured overlay for reading.  She often leaves it at home or cannot find it in class.  The overlays are very expensive, and the school has now run out of the green ones.

Pupil B finds it difficult to sequence and organise her ideas and this is becoming more of a concern now that the demands of the curriculum require more extended written responses. Her handwriting is neat and legible, but spelling is poor especially with longer, multisyllabic words.  Her teacher comments that Pupil B is also very slow with written tasks, often failing to complete work in the given time.

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