Dyslexia: News from the web:
One of the career options for my daughter is to go to Grad school. She is very dyslectic and as this may be the case with many of our readers and followers, today a link to some great advice on this from Brianne M. Collins, a guest author and PhD student in psychology at the University of Calgary.
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Davies and Williams teamed up to create “10 Million Kids,” a reference to the 10 million American children with a learning disability (LD) such as dyslexia. The short film was created with a grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation. Grammy Award-winning jazz musicians Omar Hakim and Rachel Z wrote the music for the film, and the animation is by Chris Brown.
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The Mayor of London has said some things about IQ that led the Guardian to write a solid piece about gifted children and they do a good job of highlighting all issues. Best quote:
Gifted children are prone to learning disabilities
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Good overview of the difficulties people with dyslexia have in learning foreign languages. A quote from the story that helps bringing awareness about it in a clear way:
Ask the average person on the street what dyslexia is, and you will get a plethora of incorrect and absurd responses. In order to begin to understand what it might be like to have dyslexia, take a moment to read the following sentence:
The bottob line it thit it doet exitt, no bitter whit nibe teotle give it (i.e. ttecific leirning ditibility, etc). In fict, iccording to Tilly Thiywitz (2003) itt trevilence it ictuilly one in five children, which it twenty tercent.
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The debate over the over use of the term dyslexia continues. This is also driven by the increasing costs for the tax payer and the slippery slope created for schools that are all to eager to leave special ed children out of their statistics. Meanwhile a whole industry is cashing in on the fear that parents have about their children’s progress.
What to do? Well read up on all the research we refer to at this blog and ensure you find your way through the many options you have but do not shy away to secure resources for your child when they have a learning disability.
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Lately there is some debate about whether or not the term dyslexia should be abandoned. “Experts” seem to think the term is overused and therefor no longer useful. Those suffering from or teaching to those with dyslexia have different views. In the link the debate and how it plays out in one college.
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