Strategies for Teachers

Dyslexia Dyscalculia Dysgraphia

Strategies Strategies
Strategies •
• Visual techniques Oral exams
• Extra time to finish work
o Draw pictures • Provide notes, outlines, and/or
• Provide tests that are taped or that
o Color different parts of the study sheets
can be read aloud
problem • Allow the student to videotape his
• Provide immediate feedback
• Memory aids or her report or project
• Highlight important information
o Music and rhymes • Provide a note-taker
• Use visuals
• Allow the student to talk about • Provide special paper with raised
• Repeat directions how to solve problems lines or different colored lines to
• Provide extra practice • Use graph paper to help the help with writing
• Provide a copy of the notes student understand how to line up • Allow the student to have extra
• Move the student closer to the numbers and problems time for writing assignments
teacher • Use manipulatives • Allow the student to start early on
Assistive Technology • Allow extra time for the student to writing assignments
• Bookshare complete tests • Allow the student to videotape the
• Voice Dream Reader • Give the student a list of all math lesson
• Grammarly formulas for the class Assistive Technology
• Dyslexia Unscrambled • Give feedback • SnapType
• Dyslexic fonts • Make sure the student • Grammarly
o Open Dyslexic understands the problem • Text-to-Speech Software
• Echo Smartpen Assistive Technology • Mod Math
• Voice Recognition software • Dexteria Dots • Graph paper
• Touch Math • Pencil grips
• Graph paper • Dysgraphia pen
• CoolMath4Kids.com • Highlight the lines of the paper to
• Use manipulatives help the student see where to write
• Mod Math • Special paper: raised lines, bumpy
• Calculator texture
Always follow IEP guidelines for each student