Naslov
Approaching dyslexia in bilinguals

Autori
Kelić, Maja

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, stručni

Izvornik
EDA Summer Seminars 2014: Abstracts / - , 2014, 10-11

Skup
EDA Summer Seminars 2014 - Exchanging research practice and experience

Mjesto i datum
San Marino, 19.06.2014. - 21.06.2014

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
dyslexia, bilingualism

Sažetak
Since dyslexia is the most common developmental disorder in school age children (Snowling, 2000), in contemporary multicultural Europe dyslexia in bilingual speakers is almost everyday challenge. Despite this fact, there is little research or practical guidelines for therapy of dyslexia in bilinguals. The aim of this presentation is to give the overview of theoretical assumptions regarding this issue and to introduce the verbotonal method which is based on a multisensory approach to language development and on prosody as the basis to speech development. One of the most important elements of the verbotonal method is raising awareness of the body in space and the integration of touch, proprioception, vestibular perception, hearing and vision for the purpose of developing language. Since this method is initially developed for second language learning, it gives interesting frame for therapy of language disorders in bilingual context. Verbotonal method emphasizes importance of listening and speech perception as basic phonological skills. Since dyslexia is by most theories considered to be linguistically based disorder with core symptoms (or core deficit) connected to phonological processing, extensive phonological training using different modalities is proved to be very useful therapeutic tool.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Logopedija

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