The effectiveness of teaching strategies for students with dyslexia based on their preferred learning styles.

Sioned Exley is the SENCo at Guilsborough School, a comprehensive school with 1,300 students in rural Northamptonshire. She undertook the research reported in this paper while working towards her MA at De Montfort University. The study reported here looked at whether teaching to the preferred learning styles of students with dylexia can improve their performance and attainment. Sioned Exley worked with a sample of seven students, four boys and three girls, in Years 7 and 8 in her school. Using both qualitative and quantitative methods, she indicates that five of the seven students made significant progress in both spelling and number work. All the students, in interviews, reported improved feelings about and attitudes towards their school work. While acknowledging that this is a small-scale study, Sioned Exley draws some positive conclusions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]