Ep. 15: SLAyyy Supporting Students with Dyslexia with Sara Lee

SLAyyy: Second Language Acquisition for Everyone by Ben Fisher-Rodriguez, Bill Langley, Bryan Smith

Episode notes

Gaslight
Lack of Training and Preparation
Reading IEPs and 504s
Diagnosis - or No?


Gatekeep - Sara Lee, 2024 Southwest Conference on Language Teaching TOY
Formative Assessment to Evaluate Strengths and Needs
Teaching for Proficiency
What About Explicit Grammar Teaching?
Anxiety!
Theory: Mental-Graphemic Representation


Girlboss
Readable Fonts
Identify the “Easy” Spelling Rules
Differentiation
Alternatives to Writing
Pro Tip!
Equality and Equity: Are Accommodations “Fair?”
The Most Efficient Thing is the Thing That Benefits the Largest Number of Students
What is the Learner Able to Do?












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