Dyslexia: News from the web:
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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Great blog about all things dyslexia. Facts and stories, a very interesting read indeed.
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How do you figure out if a deaf child who has difficulty with reading has dyslexia? This and other related questions have been researched.
Half the oral deaf children tested were reading at age level. This indicates that delayed reading is not an inevitable outcome for deaf children. However, the other half had reading difficulties that were at least as severe as the problems faced by hearing children with dyslexia. In some cases they were more severe.
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Well this is a pretty revolutionary view on Dyslexia. Experts at Yale and Durham Universities are claiming in a new book that the term “dyslexia,” is “unscientific and lacks meaning.
Though the authors are not questioning many people’s reality of having reading problems, they feel the term “dyslexia” is too vague. Symptoms of the disorder can often be present in one person who is diagnosed and absent in another, the researchers claim, which can make similar educational treatment unreliable.
Is this a way to sell more books or are we looking at scientific research here?
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Great initiative for Parents to learn about what it is to have dyslexia.
I love these initiatives, they really bring so much to the understanding of parents and teachers alike.
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Here is a report about the finding that kids who have had help with their dyslexia in High School apparently do not request this in college:
Just a quarter of US students who received help for their disabilities in high school acknowledge in college that they need the same assistance, according to the National Centre for Learning Disabilities. While 94 per cent of high school students with learning disabilities get some kind of help, just 17 per cent of college students do.
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