Exploring Reading and Writing Difficulty of Pupils with Dyslexia

The study is intended to explore the reading and writing difficulty of pupils with dyslexia to address the issues among the pupils when it comes to difficulty in reading and writing. The researchers were motivated to find answers to the problem encountered by the pupils to help them and their parents to cope with their situation of having dyslexia. We want to know the detailed, a person’s lived experience from home to formal schooling. In this paper we describe how we used Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to investigate the lived experiences of the diagnosed dyslexic pupils. The school setting takes an important role in the lives of every child, then all of a sudden change in the school setup when it comes to curriculum modifications and adjustments. In a way, it affects how the teacher and pupils will interact. It is also our way to identify the linguistic, intellectual, physical, social, and psychological challenges experienced by dyslexic pupils and how we can work together for them to speak unexpressed emotions and experiences and to open more chances to share their feelings when it comes to all aspects of their life, in particular the one mentioned above. In developing materials like a module, as a linguist and author of a book for special children, a module to be developed will be created in two languages: language 1 (mother tongue), Filipino, and language 2 (which is English). It will be a great contribution to the solution to the existing problems that will cater to the special needs of pupils with dyslexia, for the language barriers will be addressed also in the materials. With the proper approval of experts and specialists, they will be part of the consultations and collaborations as well to make the module come into reality, and the aim to lessen their difficulties in reading and writing will be addressed. Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis is a qualitative research methodology focused on examining how individuals make sense of their major life experiences. Findings in an IPA. There are many ways to write up an IPA study, and Smith et al. (2009) suggest guidelines for this process. Just as data analysis is an iterative process in the linguistic aspect, so is the writing process in IPA. That is, analysis of the data continues as the researcher is writing the report. There is variability in the data analysis and reporting. Smith et al. (2009) note that the researchers, in writing the report for this study, should represent “both the I and the P of IPA; IPA is an interactive output of both researcher and researched as involved and active participants." It is very important to see how the two work together to get important recorded notes in order to capture the individual utterances of the participants as actual voices at the same time as interpreting what they mean within the broader context of what’s being studied. We provide an example of how we organize to report the final findings for one of the themes.