Holly Willoughby has revealed a secret health battle that drove her to ‘write herself off’ in an emotional Channel 4 documentary.
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Category Archives: Dyslexia overview
Awareness in action: transforming perceptions of dyslexia
Dyslexia is not a weakness but a journey of strength, resilience, and success
Dyslexia becomes debilitating when it is ignored and unsupported. Breaking the silence and raising awareness about the significance of early identification and intervention is vital in preventing dyslexia from becoming a disability.
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Dyslexia and the Workplace: How to Thrive as an Adult with Dyslexia
If you are a dyslexic adult, you are certainly not the only one. People with this issue are in the millions all over the globe. However, the condition is still full of misconceptions about what it is. Some think dyslexia is simply having trouble with reading. Others believe it has to do with low intelligence. Dyslexia is a different way your brain processes language and does not signal that your intelligence or activity is lower than that of others. Many dyslexic people are artistic, problem-solving geniuses and can be said to think differently.
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Urgent call for educational reform
Analysis of 2023/2024 data reveals stark disparities in GCSE attainment once again highlighting the significant challenges faced by dyslexic students within the UK education system. Our ‘Mind the Gap’ report sheds light on the enduring academic disadvantage experienced by these students, despite ongoing efforts to address educational equality.
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Dyslexia at the palace
Sarah Myhill and Patricia Covarrubia from The University of Buckingham’s Dyslexia Hub team were invited to attend the ‘Education & Skills’ Garden Party at Buckingham Palace earlier this month in recognition of their commitment to raising dyslexia and neurodiversity awareness and support.
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Are large language models dyslexic?
These models are remarkable. They can match or exceed human performance on countless tasks, for example, diagnosing cancers from visual slides better than any human. And yet a recent study found a surprising result: All major MLLMs currently struggle to tell time on analog clocks. According to the study, GPT-4o was only able to correctly read clock faces 8% of the time. Claude-3-5-sonnet was worse at 6%. Gemini 2.0 was the best, but still at only 20%.
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