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Dyslexia

Dyslexia is seen as a gift at Abbot’s Way, for the strengths which it brings, such as:

  • Seeing the bigger picture
  • Global visual processing 
  • Pattern recognition
  • Good spatial knowledge
  • Picture Thinkers
  • Sharp peripheral vision
  • Strategic thinking 
  • Creativity
  • Thinking outside the box – problem solving
  • Empathy

At Abbot’s Way, our approach uses students’ strengths to engage them - we teach the way they can learn, not the way they cannot.

Dyslexia is associated with literacy difficulties and also brings challenges such as: 

  • Literacy
  • Memory 
  • Sequencing 
  • Processing
  • Concentration 
  • Organisation.

At Abbot’s Way, our approach promotes the acquisition and development of skills which support students’ challenges

Dyslexia:

  • can occur at any level of intellectual ability
  • is not due to the individual's ability to learn and develop the above skills
  • is not the result of poor motivation, emotional disturbance, sensory impairment or lack of opportunities, but it may occur alongside any of these.
  • is biological in origin, and tends to run in families.

Click here to watch a video to learn more about what makes Dyslexia special

For more information about Dyslexia please visit:  www.helenarkell.org.uk/about-dyslexia.php

 

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Abbot's Way School
St Mary’s Road, Meare
Somerset BA6 9SR
DfE No.   933/6015
URN No. 148006
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Dyslexia Association Silver Member - Abbot's Way SchoolDuke of Edinburgh Award SchemeIndependent Schools Association - Accredited Member Arts Award Abbotsway SchoolCouncil for Learning Outside the ClassroomThe South and West Association of Leaders in Special Schools

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