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, …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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, …