Published on 08/06/2013 10:10 When Chris Stewart sent me a copy of his autobiography, it arrived with a packet of tissues. “The book is not an easy read so the tissues might come in handy,” said Chris, 60, who has lived in Lancaster for the last 30 years. Chris’ book, “A bird in a cage …
for Soc. Applied Neuroscience course by Dr Beverely Steffert Developmental psychology has presented sufficient evidence over the years for us to know with certainty that children who grown up with a reasonably stable career are more likely to be able to learn. Securely “attached” children tend to be free from incapacitating physical or mental health …
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Are you a visual/spatial or auditory sequential learner? Do you think in pictures rather than words? Find it difficult to totally follow spoken information: facts, directions, instructions explanations? Remember what you see better than what you hear? Know things without being able to explain why? Need to see the big picture first and can then …
Recognise this? The visual Spatial Learner things primarily in images and pictures so sees the overall pattern, even if they miss small, unimportant details. They will tend to remember what they see, less so what they hear so visual aids are important in learning. While they can raise interest for complex problems and puzzles better …
Actor Henry Winkler was told he was stupid. A teacher labeled Dan Malloy, the future governor of Connecticut, “mentally retarded.” Delos Cosgrove recalls “hanging on by my fingernails” in high school and college before becoming a thoracic surgeon and the Cleveland Clinic’s chief executive officer. Each has dyslexia, a condition that makes reading difficult but …
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The recent creation of a new “bottom heavy” font by Alberto Gonzalez and Dr. Harold Levinson’s prior use of enlarged, dark, thick, colored and glare-free typeset have made it easier for dyslexics to process letter and word signals. Just as important, the enhanced signal efficacy of specially designed fonts and typesets have helped further validate …
When James Martin was eight, he predicted he’d be a head chef by 30, have his own restaurant by 35 and a Ferrari by 40. Instead, he’d achieved them all by the age of 24. Now that he’s 40, with TV shows including BBC1’s Saturday Kitchen, best-selling books, restaurants, a delicatessen, cookware range and a …
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by Sarah Sipek Mar 6, 2013 For 10-year-old Christopher Anderson, school was a cloud of distractions that he couldn’t seem to break through. He had trouble reading and paying attention to his teacher was nearly impossible with all the competing noises. All that changed when the child was given a personal radio receiver that allowed him to tune out …
Actress Kara Tointon reveals how she copes with dyslexia – and how her love of reading has developed. Former EastEnder and Strictly Come Dancing champion Kara Tointon is reminiscing about the day when, aged seven, she discovered she had dyslexia. ‘They said I was dyslexic but I came out of the test feeling great,’ she …
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved ChromaGen spectacle lenses to aid people with dyslexia and other reading disorders, according to a press release from ChromaGen Vision. The company tested 150 students at Brighton School, in Baton Rouge, La., which specializes in dyslexia and dyslexia-related learning disabilties, according to the release. About 72% of …
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Though she is just 9 years old, Lillian Harris is about to become a published author. While coming out with a book before leaving elementary school is an accomplishment, Lillian’s book is even more exceptional because writing is one of her biggest challenges. Lillian, a third-grader at Niedringhaus Elementary, has dyslexia, a reading disability that …
A research team from the University of Padua, Italy has conducted a study suggesting playing fast paced games that stress chaos versus literacy exercises may read with increased speed. The team tested seven to thirteen-year-olds after playing Wii’s Rayman Raving Rabbits for 12 hours over two weeks, and found increased reading speed with no loss …
Dyslexia & Creativity: Investigations from Differing Perspectives Edited by Neal Alexander-Passe Chapter: The Neurology of Creativity in Dyslexics Product details: Hardcover Publisher: Nova Science Publishers Inc (1 Aug 2010) Language: English ISBN-10: 1616685522 ISBN-13: 978-1616685522 Product Description: This is the first in a series to investigate under-researched areas of dyslexia. It has come from a …
The EEG Spectrum Mental Fitness Training Programme began in 1985, based on more than 20 years research by Professor Barry Sterman, Ph.D. He has published over 160 scientific papers which clearly indicate that, with the assistance of Brainwave training or neurofeedback, the brain is capable of learning and maintaining new, more beneficial response patterns even …
For teachers “Teaching Thinking Skills across the primary Curriculum; a practical approach for all activities” edited by Belle Wallace, A NACE/Fulton publication (2001) (for the whole class, although an individual programme could be adapted from it) For parents ” Teaching your child Thinking skills” by Edward de Bono (penguin) The Somerset Thinking Skills Course a …
The rationale of thinking skills is to make explicit the components of thinking, allowing children to control and extend these skills to go beyond the specific present information to generalize to other situations, academic and real life. Because humans use many different symbolic systems to capture and communicate experience, we all have different styles (verbal, …
The classical model of Attention Deficit Disorder involves three major themes; inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity. A child can exhibit one or all of these trends to be diagnosed with this specific learning disability. In fact girls tend more often to exhibit inattention only, appearing dreamy and spaced out while boys are more often diagnosed with …
School is stressful to children who have any type of leaning difficulty, a 6 hour, 5 day a week stress, at least. For those that are understood, helped to use strategies and develop some competencies, this stress can be turned into a challenge, a determination to rise above weaknesses and the consequent triumph of mastery …
Children acquire language by listening to those around them talking. In the first year of life they are building an ever-increasing store of speech sounds. This store is phonological memory — the units of sounds that make up words. If these sounds are stored in phonological memory in a faulty manner, the child’s perception of …
Slowness in processing affects all the senses in Specific Learning Difficulties. Perception refers to the interpretation the brain makes of information from the senses. If the senses can’t convey a rapid feedback due to lack of neurons devoted to the function then information is mistimed and misequenced. In fact most Dyslexic children have been taken …
Sub-types of Dyslexia Reading requires both; Phonological (sound based) analysis Levels of phonological awareness 1 Syllables c/a/t 2 onset and rime tr / ip 3 analogy zip/nip — beak/bean (need good auditory sequencing and sound discrimination) Orthographic (visual code) analysis 1 requires orientation 2 visual sequencing 3 visual tracking details of shape — horizontals, verticals, …