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Book about Dyslexia winners

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So now we have a book about people who had dyslexia and turned out to accomplish great things. As a moral support for the children who suffer day in day out from this disability it is probably ok and to highlight these great people is probably also appropriate. It should however be crystal clear how much suffering goes on as a result of lack of funding for resources for our children to adequately deal with dyslexia in the school system.

In their own words:

In Leaders, Visionaries and Dreamers: Extraordinary People with Dyslexia and Other Learning Disabilities, Paul J. Gerber, Ph.D., the VCU School of Education Ruth Harris Professor of Dyslexia Studies, and Marshall H. Raskind, Ph.D., look at 12 incredible people with LD and dyslexia whose lives are characterized by major accomplishments and contributions that they have made in their respective fields as well as on the contemporary American scene.

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Dyslexia and blinking your eyes

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People with dyslexia seem to have an issue with a bridge connecting two pieces of the brain. It is as if the bridge is damaged and some messages come across late or garbled.

Dr. Condor discovered this through high speed photography of chilldren. When they started to blink, one eyelid started down just a fraction of a second before the other one. When they started to smile, one corner of the mouth started up just a fraction of a second before the other one. When they reached for something, one hand started to move just a fraction of a second before the other. The slow side was always the same, and the delay was the same size for everything.

Since this peculiarity was only present in dyslectic kids, he concluded that their CC’s had to be out of shape somehow. I will always be impressed with the fact that today’s brain scans still show the same-sized time delay that Dr. Condon cleverly found in 1982 with nothing but a low-tech, high-speed camera!

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Dyslexia now in US Congress

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Dyslexia: News from the web: via the hill.com

Rep. Bill Cassidy (R- La.) has introduced a House Resolution on Dyslexia (H.Res. 456, 113th Congress), which, at long last, brings hope and recognition to the one out of five children who are dyslexic and who, with proper diagnosis and evidence-based interventions and accommodations, could learn to read, to spell and to achieve at their ability and go on to fulfilling futures.

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Mandatory Dyslexia screening in New Jersey

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Good news from the New Jersey spotlight:

Schoolchildren with reading difficulties in the earliest grades will now have to be screened by their schools for dyslexia and other reading disorders, under a bill signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie.

The bill, S-2442, was the last part of a legislative package aimed at improving identification and support of children with the disorder.

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