News about Dyslexia

Ghotit Releases the first Android Writing & Reading Solution for People with Dyslexia.

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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, …

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Mistaking Dyslexia and ADHD as Normal Variations or Gifts is Potentially Dangerous, warns Dr. Harold Levinson.

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“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 …

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New exams discriminate against dyslexics.

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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 …

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‘Harry Potter helped me overcome dyslexia,’ says Princess Beatrice

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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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Siblings Problems

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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 …

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Learning to cope: New methods help student deal with dyslexia

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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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Dyslexia Workarounds: Creativity Without a Lot of Reading

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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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‘Dyslexia drove me to success’ James Martin explains how he built a £5m fortune.

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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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Kara Tointon: Green glasses and sticky notes helped me overcome dyslexia

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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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Lillian Harris

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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 …

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Thinking Skills

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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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