Dyslexia, classes and exams with eye sight Saccades
Dyslexia, classes and exams with eye sight Saccades
Dyslexic, learning and exam taking come in many guises. The result though is often the same. The under performing both in class and in exams for pupils and candidates. The challenge for educating has been to rise up provide those pupils who suffer dyslexic tendencies the opportunity to learn and express themselves with as much suitable access as possible.
We have been here before with poor eye sight. Previously short sighted children fell behind in school, were thought of as stupid and failed the subsequent exams. Along came glasses and those children found their way to both see properly and express themselves.
It is no different now and discussed previously on the exam blog with the neurological diverse classroom and exam candidates. We are finding ways to help pupils who suffer dyslexic challenges. Not for their lack of intelligence but a poor functioning process of expression or ingestion of knowledge.
A lot of research has been done around what drives dyslexic mistakes. Over the last ten years some of it has been focused on eye movements.
Simply, when reading ones eyes do not read words one by one instead they jump through the words and fill in gaps between words. Called saccades.
Some words appear only in the eye’s peripheral vision. Such as if one reads a line of words in a sentence yours eyes might actually be focussing on one or two words. The rest of the line and sentence is on the outside of the focus in the peripheral vision.
How reading and writing improvements could be achieved by improving the rhythm and jump that one’s focus does when reading. While improving the way words and sentences are presented to fit the style of pupils eye saccades.
The result could be the full access to learning, ingesting knowledge and ultimately access to learning not thought possible. With the same transformative effect the fixing of poor eye sight in children did for their learning subsequent life opportunity taming in correct eye movements will bring huge benefits to children affected .
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5679349/