Category Archives: Detection

A challenge about the diagnosis of Dyslexia

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Our link for today shows a professor claiming that there is no agreement on what actually the diagnoses of dyslexia is and that there are no special interventions for dyslexia but the interventions recommended are what you should do for all children. He further argues that Middle class parents abuse the system to get extra resources for their kids and Public schools ignore the diagnoses due to lack of funds.

Well that may stir the discussion quite a bit.

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Computer game may detect dyslexia

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While students from minority groups are over-represented in Norwegian special needs education, practically no children from these groups are diagnosed with dyslexia. As a consequence many miss out on important help. Researchers at the Norwegian Reading Centre are studying whether a computer game can pick up dyslexia in pupils from minority groups.

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The importance of a proper diagnosis

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A study done at the University of Washington concludes (not surprising):

It is important that kids receive a proper diagnosis, then specialized instruction tailored to it, said Virginia Berninger, an educational psychologist who worked with Richards on this study and othersand heads the UW Interdisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center.

“So many of these kids never get the kind of instruction they need,” Berninger said, “and we just keep showing over and over again that if you find out what’s wrong and you teach that skill, voilà, they can learn.”

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One in five people have dyslexia

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“For most dyslexic kids, their classroom teacher is the first and only person they encounter at school to help build literacy skills. Because of how public schools determine eligibility for special education services, many dyslexic kids who are struggling but able to make some progress on their own, never see a reading specialist. And even if they do, the reading specialist may not have the tools either.”

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Dyslexia crisis in Texas

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Texas public schools are identifying just 2.5 percent of students as having dyslexia, a fraction of the number of students who experts say need help overcoming the common reading disability.

About 125,600 of the state’s 5.2 million public school students were identified as dyslexic, according to data released by the Texas Education Agency. That’s just a slight uptick from the 2013-14 academic year, the first one that state law required districts to report the number.

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