Would you let your dyslexic child have electric current therapy? A radical new treatment in Italy might offer help for children in Britain Tom Kington June 20 2016, 12:01am, The Times Carlo Maria Mazzanti, who has undergone the new treatmentVICTOR SOKOLOWICZ FOR THE TIMES Share Save Save Watching her 15-year-old son disappear into a hospital room …
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‘The right music can hit the sweet spot between predictable and chaotic for which the brain has a strong preference.’ Illustration: Sophie Wolfson Supported by About this content Dean Burnett @garwboy Saturday 20 August 2016 07.30 BSTLast modified on Saturday 20 August 201607.32 BST Share on LinkedIn Share on Google+ Shares 244 Comments 26 Save for later Many …
Spelling (from the International Dyslexia Association) How common are spelling difficulties? Spelling is difficult for many people, but there is much less research on spelling than there is on reading to tell us just how many people spell poorly or believe they spell poorly. Less is known about spelling competence in the general population than …
Some schools are reducing teaching assistants and SEND pupils are being caught up in ‘a black hole of no support’, says one SEND specialist There is a worrying trend that I have noticed over the past couple of years of visiting Sencos in secondary schools all around the UK. In some schools, teaching assistants are disappearing …
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Dysgraphia — I Created an App for That It’s called SnapType, and it helps kids keep up with their peers in class when their penmanship holds them back. BY AMBERLYNN GIFFORD SLAVIN Steven is a fifth-grader who I met during my occupational therapy fieldwork several months ago. He was diagnosed with dysgraphia. His handwriting is so messy …
The 11-week study, carried out by the British Dyslexia Association at Knowl Hill School in Surrey, found that using Immersive Reader, part of Microsoft’s OneNote software, improved pupil’s reading comprehension and emotional well-being. The software reads out a pupil’s writing, without a teacher or learning assistant’s help. Hearing, rather than reading, makes is easier to …
Is Mandarin too hard a language to learn for dyslexic schoolchildren? 16:45 03 March 2015 Imogen Blake Highgate Primary School mandarin lessons. Head Teacher William Dean with Chinese Cultural teacher Rhona Pennington and year 4 students Maisie (9), Dylan (9), Deeya (8) and Aidan (8) all from class 4PB. More and more schools are eschewing …
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Gut Check: When an Intelligent, Creative, Dyslexic Student Researches High School Drop-Out Policies 10/17/2015 5 Comments Just reading the title for this post, maybe you can understand the confusion and heartbreak in our home. Our 17 year old son has been researching what our state/county policies are on dropping out of high school. Why? …
From Dyslexia Trust, Oxford Vision & Coloured Filters Visual Problems in Dyslexia- Wobbles Summary – Recent research by the DRT and others has suggested that magnocellular (M) neurones in the brain play an important role in reading and that M- deficits contribute powerfully to reading problems because the M system is so crucial for directing …
Education secretary Nicky Morgan recently announced that primary school children will have to sit new computerised maths exams from next year. The tests will go up to and include the 12 times table and schools have been warned that they will be held to account if pupils do not make the grade. This initiative …
Coping with dyslexia focuses Olympic marathoner Posted By: Rick Moffat rickm@cjad.com · 4/25/2012 8:36:00 AM Long distance runner Eric Gillis knows about focusing on goals. After struggling through school because of dyslexia, Gillis found running to be “the carrot” that got him on to university. He won’t stop running until he gets to London, where anything and everything …
Background speech hindered toddlers’ ability to learn words, according to a new study. Credit: © angiolina / Fotolia The environments children are in, including how much and what kinds of stimulation they are exposed to, influence what and how they learn. One important task for children is zeroing in on the information that’s relevant to …