Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education Strengthens Support for Elementary Students with Dyslexia... Voucher Provision Expanded to 34 Locations

Diagnosis, Treatment, and Counseling Centered on the Dyslexia Support Center

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Park Dong-wook] The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education announced on the 2nd that it will strengthen support centered on the Daegu Dyslexia Support Center for elementary school students struggling with dyslexia.

To provide focused support for students with dyslexia this year, the Office of Education secured a budget of over 200 million won, aiming to eliminate learning obstacles by providing timely training programs and thereby close the academic achievement gap.

'Dyslexia' is a condition where intelligence, vision, and hearing are all normal, but the person has difficulty accurately reading text and spelling correctly. A lack of basic academic skills caused by dyslexia leads to learning deficits, which ultimately results in students' maladjustment to school and acts as a factor hindering their growth.

The Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education began providing dyslexia treatment and training services to seven elementary students at the Western Education Support Office Dyslexia Support Center in 2013, and since 2018, it has expanded the target range to all students under the Office of Education. The number of institutions providing dyslexia vouchers has also steadily increased. Twenty institutions were designated through public contests in 2018, 28 in 2019, and currently, there are 34 institutions this year.

The dyslexia support project for elementary students is largely divided into diagnosis and treatment. The Daegu Dyslexia Support Center not only supports dyslexia treatment (training) programs but also conducts diagnosis, treatment and training, and counseling in three stages through professional advisory institutions. All costs are fully covered by the Daegu Metropolitan Office of Education.

Since 2013 until August of this year, the number of students who have completed dyslexia diagnostic tests has reached approximately 310. After the dyslexia diagnostic test, if a student is selected as eligible for dyslexia support, they can receive dyslexia treatment and training linked to dyslexia voucher institutions, such as visual perception programs, auditory perception programs, sensory integration programs, and individualized reading intervention programs, according to expert opinions.

Superintendent Kang Eun-hee stated, "Even in the difficult situation of COVID-19, we will do our best to provide diagnosis, treatment, and training programs for students with dyslexia without interruption to close the academic achievement gap," adding, "Dyslexia itself is a weakness, but we will help students to think together and grow so that other important talents can be further developed and utilized."

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