We learned a couple of weeks ago that Steven Spielberg would finally move ahead with a couple of projects with two 2016 release dates already penciled in. As we wait to see what the future holds for the iconic director, let’s hear the director take a look back at his own life. Movies.com unearthed a video from 2012 where Spielberg …
Parents should turn to smartphones, iPads and Kindles to get young children interested in reading amid concerns that growing numbers of infants are rejecting books, a major charity has warned. Research by the National Literacy Trust has found that technology can have a “new and important” role to play in getting children as young as …
Action video games have been shown to produce a potential for improved reading performance in people that have dyslexia by helping to overcome the inability of dyslexic people to switch from auditory to visual stimuli as rapidly as average readers according to research conducted by Vanessa Harrar of the University of Oxford in Britain that …
In people with dyslexia, less gray matter in the brain has been linked to reading disabilities, but now new evidence suggests this is a consequence of poorer reading experiences and not the root cause of the disorder. It has been assumed that the difference in the amount of gray matter might, in part, explain why …
CHANGE: Olivia Loder wants to make a change to state school education for youngsters with dyslexia. AN 11-YEAR-OLD girl from Dorking who was bullied because of her dyslexia has asked the Education Secretary for better teacher training to help other youngsters – and received a reply. Before moving to specialist school Moon Hall College …
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SIR Paul Smith will open an event at the University of Derby to raise awareness of dyslexia. The celebrated fashion designer, who is dyslexic himself, will attend the event which has been organised by student Sarah Chapman who is also dyslexic. The free one-day event hopes to highlight the strengths people with dyslexia can have, …
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You’re on the road and suddenly you receive an urgent email that you must answer immediately. What do you do? You take out your smartphone/tablet and write an answer. But what if you are dyslexic and must have a writing assistant to help produce clear and error-free text? If you are an Android smartphone/tablet owner, …
Ghotit Releases the first Android Writing & Reading Solution for People with Dyslexia. Read More »
In people with dyslexia, less grey matter in the brain has been linked to reading disabilities, but new evidence suggests this is a consequence of poorer reading experiences and not the root cause of the disorder. A study compared a group of dyslexic children with two different control groups – an age-matched group included in …
A NEW application has been developed to help dyslexic and visually impaired train passengers. Southern and Gatwick Express have launched the app on their websites – www.southernrailway.com and www.gatwickexpress.com – which is designed to help users access content with much more ease. The system, called Recite, allows those with visual impairment and/or dyslexia to customise …
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Balance exericses increase cerebelluar function which in some Dyslexics and ADHD children is a little compromised. But not all, so it is not a catch-all cure. Nevertheless, balance exercise is good for everyone especially if they don’t ride bikes, play sport or other such activities. In balance, in the United States, was created to help …
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WHILE thousands of school leavers anxiously await their university offers on Thursday, those who miss out are urged not to despair – a successful career doesn’t have to hinge on tertiary education. Just ask Daniella Boutros, who at 16 was forced to quit school because of severe dyslexia but has gone on to forge two …
We are a reading family. Each one of us, at any given time, is in the middle of two or three books. Over winter break, I read historical fiction and short stories. Cooper polished off three novels, all with some sort of fantasy or science fiction element. Katie immersed herself in realistic fiction with a …
As the trend of e-readers is getting popular, researchers at the Smithsonian have discovered that people with dyslexia can read more easily and quickly and with greater comprehension from a e- reader as they can be set up to display only very words per line. This finding was published in journal PLOS ONE in September, …
“Seldom have I found patients with dyslexia or ADHD who claim they wouldn’t have achieved more and easier without their handicap.“ New York, NY (PRWEB) January 07, 2014 According to Dr. Levinson, the well-intended conviction that dyslexia and related ADHD are normal brain variations and even gifts, rather than medical disorders, is misleading and thus …
The new English Baccalaureate Certificate, which is to replace GCSE examinations, will have a detrimental effect on those with specific learning difficulties such as dyslexia, claims a leading charity. Under plans announced by Education Secretary Michael Gove, the GCSE’s mix of external exams, course work and internal assessment will be replaced by a single external …
The 12 Years a Slave director sat down with The Guardian. McQueen was born in west London to Grenadian parents, grew up in leafy Ealing and went to a very multicultural school where he was one of the cool kids, on account of being big and good at football. “It was fun, we laughed all …
Mapping dyslexia: A study found that the area that sorts and stores the auditory building blocks of language, in yellow, is similar between dyslexics and a group without reading problems A faulty connection between where the brain stores the auditory building blocks of language and where it processes them may be to blame for dyslexia, …
A white matter circuit may be to blame for dyslexics. Read More »
Many iPad apps are available to support learners with reading and writing difficulties. This ‘Wheel of Apps’ is not comprehensive, but attempts to identify relevant apps and to categorise them according to some of the difficulties faced by people with dyslexia. Note that some apps address a range of difficulties. In order to save space, …
Malcolm Gladwell was in our homes Sunday morning, chatting with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria about yet another astounding but logical-sounding concept in his next surefire best-seller, “David and Goliath.” And as Gladwell was explaining his concept — that the learning disability dyslexia can actually be a “desirable” difficulty — I found myself thinking it sounded shocking …
By Leo Kelion Technology reporter A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour. OpenDyslexic’s characters have been given “heavy-weighted bottoms” to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers. A recent update to the popular app Instapaper has adopted the text format as …
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Vicars Cross man Jon Dytor describes the impact dyslexia has had on his life. Jon Dytor, digital manager for Close Brothers in Chester, was diagnosed with dyslexia while at university. Dyslexia Awareness Week last week aimed to highlight the variety of difficulties faced by those who battle with this condition on a day to day …
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A filmmaker who grew up with dyslexia advocates for an enlightened, compassionate educational approach. Growing up in the 1960s, filmmaker Harvey Hubbell V struggled with what was labeled a “perception problem,” and it made school a drag. His upbeat documentary Dislecksia: The Movie traces breakthroughs in the understanding and treatment of dyslexia, emphasizing that it’s …
When I was a kid, I dreamt about our school desks as computer screens. How cool would it have been to be able to draw, write, and learn directly onto my own computer? As the years went on, people theorized that laptops would take over the classroom, but the price of these devices was too …
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What should Jamie Oliver read next?The chef, who has dyslexia, has just finished reading a book for the first time. Now he needs some tempting new titles for his reading menu … Jamie Oliver is 38 years old, the “author” of 17 big books, and has just, for the first time, having severe dyslexia, read …
Princess Beatrice has spoken of how the excitement of discovering the Harry Potter novels as a youngster helped her to overcome her dyslexia. The Queen’s granddaughter said that the condition meant that she had struggled to read books before coming across the JK Rowling stories. She described how the first novel in the series, Harry …
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We noticed on our Neurofeedback holidays how much the brothers and sisters of children who had special needs congregated together and discussed their various sibs problems. This holiday was sometimes the first time they had benefited from their sibs problems. Usually they were doing well at school, getting on OK at home but found the …
Northumbria University graduate Henry Franks won the award for a collection of re-imagined everyday objects, including an inverted set of mugs, double-hooked coat hangers, pen pots that only hold two or three pens and a set of cork plinths for cups. Description: Poor Memory Pen Pots by Henry Franks. “The motivation was to utilise the …
We noticed on our Neurofeedback holidays how much the brothers and sisters of children who had special needs congregated together and discussed their various sibs problems. This holiday was sometimes the first time they had benefited from their sibs problems. Usually they were doing well at school, getting on OK at home but found the …
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By Matlin Smith / msmith@lcsun-news.comlcsun-news.com Posted: 06/05/2013 04:34:34 AM MDT For most of her childhood and adolescence, school was a struggle for Karen Tillery. Reading caused painful headaches, teachers’ lectures were garbled with the voices of her classmates and new concepts didn’t register immediately, if at all, and the reasons why were a mystery. “She …
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A new study indicates that dyslexics and non-dyslexics have similar brain activity in the visual cortex, pointing to the possible role of reading experience in dyslexia instead. Dyslexia is the most prevalent of learning disabilities, affecting nearly 12 percent of Americans with reading disabilities and difficulties processing visual information. A new study indicates that dyslexics …
Reading Disabilities Amid Dyslexia Patients Rooted In Ability, Not Brain Abnormalities. Read More »