I’ve been traumatised for 16 years by an attempted rape. With the Alpha-Stim, at last, some relief
The Sunday Times The victim of a violent sexual assault reveals how the device is helping her copeAnonymous May 26 2019, 12:01am, The Sunday Times Health I am sitting in an uncomfortable chair, five small electrodes fixed to my head to monitor my brain waves, for my first session of cranial electrotherapy stimulation with an Alpha-Stim. …
Virtual reality: Helping Manchester Arena survivors
BBC Newsround 21 May 201921 May 2019Last updated at 17:29View Comments (3) GETTY IMAGES Virtual reality (VR) is the future, but not just when it comes to gaming. Having been around for decades already, we’re now at the stage where VR works really well. Back when your parents were kids, VR didn’t have very good graphics, …
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High hopes of a virtual reality cure for phobias
The Times Virtual reality therapy can conquer people’s fear of heights, according to a trial which raises hopes that millions with common mental health problems can be treated at home by machines (Chris Smyth writes). Patients who had suffered a crippling fear of heights for 30 years were able to climb steep mountains and cross …
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Would you let your dyslexic child have electric current therapy?
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
‘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
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
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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PPP Dysgraphia
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 …
One note for dyslexics
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 …
Why dyscalculia and Irlen syndrome deserve the same exposure as dyslexia
Why dyscalculia and Irlen syndrome deserve the same exposure as dyslexia By Chad_Welch | Posted: January 11, 2016 Digsby IM, Email, and Social Networks in one easy to use application! http://digsby.com Nichola Hill-Williams Comments (0) IMAGINE dyslexia, but with numbers. That is what this Neath woman has to deal with every day. Nichola Hill-Williams suffers from dyscalculia …
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What the Internet Looks Like for Someone With Dyslexia
What the Internet Looks Like for Someone With Dyslexia Click to Open Overlay GalleryGitHub Try as you might, if you don’t have dyslexia, it’s probably hard to really understand what it’s like for someone who does to use the Internet, where text is king. A developer named Victor Windell wanted to change that. Windell created …
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What it’s like to have dyslexia in the digital world
BigStock/tony4urban Health This Is What It Feels Like To Have Dyslexia One in five people suffers from dyslexia, according to the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. If you aren’t one of them, it can be difficult to empathize with precisely what dyslexic people experiencewhile reading. Developer Victor Widell created a websitethat simulates dyslexia and …
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The Fight over Rote Math
The Fight over Rote Math By Fernette Eide|November 7th, 2016|dyslexia, Math, Memory, Research, Teachers, Teaching|Comments Off on The Fight over Rote Math If you think you’ve been hearing conflicting information about rote math in the news or from schools, you’re absolutely right. The fight is spilling over into educational policy makers and makers of standardized …
Tes article on careers advice
Stewart Segal, chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers, argues that schools can’t be experts in all types of FE provision – but a new national careers service would help In an announcement this week, the government has finally realised that it needs to strengthen its guidance to schools on careers information …
Technology evolves to aid students learning with dyslexia
Technology evolves to aid students learning with dyslexia By: AMY ARMSTRONG For the Chugiak-Eagle River Star Posted: Wed, 01/13/2016 – 12:42pm Julee Faso-Formoso works with Vince Gonderzik, a fourth grade student at Chugiak Elementary School diagnosed with dyslexia. Faso-Formoso specializes in tutoring elementary students with the learning disability that causes reading challenges for otherwise intelligent …
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Take a lead from Bedales
Keith Budge: ‘Unworthy’ practical subjects are just as important as academic ones Too readily schools become obsessed by such easy polarities as sciences ‘good’ and humanities ‘wishy-washy’, argues head teacher Keith Budge Facebook 44 Twitter Pinterest 0 LinkedIn 1 Share 45 Email Science, good: There’s a crude categorisation of subjects by perceived difficulty Photo: ALAMY Why …
Self harm a predictor of suicide
Dr Dennis Ougrin will present on ‘Adolescent self-harm: Long-term follow up of a Trial of Therapeutic Assessment in London (TOTAL)’ at the Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference, Friday 16 March. Suicide is a leading cause of death in young people and self-harm is the strongest predictor of death by suicide. Engagement with treatment is …
Schools will be expected to take on apprentices in a bid to help the government to hit its target of 3 million such roles by 2020
Dr Dennis Ougrin will present on ‘Adolescent self-harm: Long-term follow up of a Trial of Therapeutic Assessment in London (TOTAL)’ at the Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture and Conference, Friday 16 March. Suicide is a leading cause of death in young people and self-harm is the strongest predictor of death by suicide. Engagement with treatment is …
Schools will be expected to take on apprentices in a bid to help the government to hit its target of 3 million such roles by 2020
Schools will be expected to take on apprentices in a bid to help the government to hit its target of 3 million such roles by 2020. Ministers today published a consultation documentoutlining its plans to lean on the public sector to take on more apprentices as part of its drive. Under the proposals, all schools …
Schools to be forced by law to give equal weighting to vocational and academic routes
Schools to be forced by law to give equal weighting to vocational and academic routes TES 24th January 2016 at 09:31 Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Careers Schools State schools will be forced to give vocational routes as much weight as academic options when giving careers advice to their pupils. Ministers are plotting legislation …
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Real Words in 3-D
Real Words: Interact with 3D Words for Dyslexia January 11, 2016/ farreaching Voting Closed 2 farreaching Date:January 11, 2016 Categories:Education Tweet Share1 Like2 Problem:Dyslexia is related to 2D English language that’s processed by the left (non-spatial) lobe of the brain. This is why in Chinese and Japanese, dyslexia is uncommon. Solution: Bringing spatial processing (right …