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Trading Dyslexia certificates

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Apparently having a Dyslexia certification is a hot property these days with a hospital in Athens revealing a scam where a former employee produced fake certifications. People believe the certificates will either exempt their kids from exams, provide them with government benefits or other positives. This practice does not help the kids with real dyslexia as it will create a bias against the disability and make it even more difficult to get schools to provide facilities to overcome the problems that come with having Dyslexia.

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Dyslexia training for teachers needed

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Almost two thirds of parents of dyslexic children (61%) said their child had to wait a year for help after being diagnosed, a report suggests.

Of 450 parents surveyed for the charity Dyslexia Action, 90% said teachers lacked awareness of the condition.

The charity wants dyslexia training for all teachers and a national dyslexia and literacy strategy included in the government’s special needs reforms

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Links and resources

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Today we bring you some links and resources:

Please go to change.org and sign the petition to get congress to require that testing agencies grant accommodations for dyslexic students so that high stakes tests assess ability and not disability, and students are allowed to go forward and succeed in life. High stakes tests must be reliable, valid and accessible to dyslexic children and adults. Without accommodations, highly capable, intelligent students are being denied the opportunity to show what they can achieve. Click HERE

 

 

Yale has opened a website for Dyslectic people with lots of information. It is called the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Go check it out, Click HERE

 

And we are happy to report that the project Dyslexia-ville has been sufficiently supported to become a reality. Follow all developments by clicking HERE

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Dyslexia and Creativity

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Soren Peterson, writes a nice article about Dyslexia and creativity.

Right-brained and left-brained, masculine and feminine, blue-eyed and brown-eyed: Are certain kinds of people more creative than others? Many of the super creative designers I have worked with seemed to have one thing in common; they suffered from dyslexia. Looking back in history, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Jørn Utzon, Agatha Christie and Albert Einstein were all dyslexic. So, is dyslexia linked to creativity?

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Support Dyslexia-Ville

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Peggy Stern, The academy award winning celebrity, has started a project to create Dyslexia-Ville. Dyslexia-Ville will be the world wide safe haven for dyslectics and there will be a web series to support the initiative.

She has assembled a group of specialists around her to get the project going and Jay Leno, who also struggled with Dyslexia his whole life, has kindly made tickets available for top sponsors of the project.

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