Dyslexia: News from the web:
Listen to the podcast from www.newstalk.com where they interview someone with a very contrary view about dyslexia.
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Dyslexia: News from the web:
Navigating and negotiating an IEP for your child is not easy for many parents. Here we have a group of concerned parents who started out as a dyslexia support group on facebook, but now have grown into a site where people can go for help with any IEP meeting they face.
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Dyslexia: News from the web:
Reading and dyslexia illustrate the rich tension between nature and nurture. Reading is a learned skill; no one is born reading. But learning to read relies on inborn human capacities for language and speech. And dyslexia is a genetic condition that compromises these brain networks.
Yet laypeople are convinced that dyslexia results from “troubles with vision. And these errors matter. A parent who holds these views might fail to recognize her child’s difficulties with rhymes and pig Latin (both require phonemic awareness) as warning signs.
scientific american
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Dyslexia: News from the web:
A team in the UK has proposed an app called ‘Dimming Dyslexia’ to analyze online text and other educational resources and translate them into formats that are easier for those with dyslexia to understand. The app can present written text as videos and cartoons, and change font size and colors on the page to present more dyslexia-friendly formats.
The all female team won the BT young pioneer award which means they will be supported to develop the prototype into a working app with the help of BT experts.
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Dyslexia: News from the web:
The people from the ADDitude magazine have listed some wonderful tools your students can use to help them cope with their various learning disabilities
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Dyslexia: News from the web:
The schoolyear has started and the first report card may have come home by now. You may be coming aware of issues with your child’s learning. The teachers may invite you for a conference. The understood organization has a great explanation of the difference between a parent teacher conference and an IEP meeting, see our link for today.
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