Thinking Skills

OpenDyslexic font gains ground with help of Instapaper.

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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“I would be lying if I said dyslexia hadn’t affected my life decisions.”

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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Thinking Skills

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, …

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