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How Lecture Recorder Helps with Teaching Dyslexic Learners

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Dyslexia is a specific learning difficulty that hinders a person's ability to read, write, spell, and sometimes speak. This permanent disability should not go undetected since a person with dyslexia should be provided continuous support through schooling. Dyslexia is caused by impairment of the brain's ability to translate images that are received from the eyes or ears into comprehensible language. What do dyslexic students need to feel comfortable when they participate in the learning process? On the part of the teacher, it is the adoption of specific teaching strategies and a more flexible approach to the learning process. Technology and equipment adapted to the needs of dyslexic students may provide essential help to them in learning process. Modern learning methods assume using a great deal of illustrative video and audio material, recorded presentations and lectures. Due to specific learning disabilities, dyslexic students need to have individual additional studies and tutoring tailored to their own learning needs. Technology can now provide the students and their educational supporters with all available educational material provided such that it can be played back and repeated at the student’s learning speed without the peer pressure of other students. Lecture Recorder by Epiphan Systems is a prime example of the suitable equipment with its capability to capture and record video and audio streaming from any device being used in learning process and that features DVI or VGA outputs.

Overcome Difficulties Caused by Short-term Memory

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One of the big problems for dyslexic people is short-term memory. This learning skill deficiency is probably the most often overlooked although the most prevalent. Poor auditory short term memory can cause multiple problems in terms of retaining input from the teacher and the teaching materials. Auditory memory is involved in taking in the information presented orally, processing and storing it, and recalling what was heard. Students with auditory memory weaknesses pick up only some pieces of what is said during a lecture. They experience difficulties developing a good remembering of terms, words understanding and information presented orally. Lecture Recorder helps students to capture lectures and presentations from VGA and DVI sources and save them on a computer for later review and study. This solution can be used without any license or maintenance fees. Full motion video is captured at a high resolution up to 1920x1200. The educational content will be more available for detailed and deliberate learning. Dyslexic students will benefit from such approach without thinking they aren’t bright enough as they are falling behind the others while trying to keep up by taking notes. The learning process becomes more effective.

Avoiding Distraction While Studying

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Dyslexic people are easily distracted by sounds and movements around them. A normal hum of classroom activity may become a serious problem. Since they may also have short attention span, there are some difficulties in focusing on certain tasks. To improve their concentration skills, students need to counteract the barriers by removing all distractions. It is necessary to work in a quiet place where even a soft sound won’t catch their attention. Lecture Recorder provides the student with learning materials at hand for unhurried work in a quiet place that may help to overcome these environmental challenges or potential embarrassment. Lecture Recorder allows the teacher to capture and record video streaming and distribute it among the students regardless of the VGA/DVI video equipment being used during the lectures or presentation. Be it recorded lectures, images, comments, audio explanations – the learning process can be resumed again and again at the individual student’s pace of study. The student may now work in a safe and peaceful place chosen for his/her everyday individual studies.