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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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Housing group offers help to dyslexic residents

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A WINSFORD housing association is offering a helping hand to some of its residents who suffer from dyslexia by supplying free specialist rulers.

Muir Group Housing Association is giving away coloured rulers which people with dyslexia can use when reading.

Jean Broster, service improvement officer at Muir Group, which manages properties in the town, said: “We decided to start giving away the rulers following feedback from a resident.

“We already give away magnifying strips that help the visually impaired.

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Dyslexic work is praised

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A leading college has been officially honoured for the extra help it provides for students with dyslexia.

 

Runshaw College, in Leyland, is the first college in the county and one of only a handful of places nationally, to receive the British Dyslexia Association dyslexia friendly accreditation kite mark.

The accolade follows work done by the Langdale Road college’s Study Support Unit who work to help students overcome problems.

Ann-Marie McNicholas, HE/FE teaching and dyslexia co-ordinator, study support, said students are referred by personal tutors to make self referrals if they have problems with coping with their studies and various tests are done to find out both the cause and ways of helping students cope.

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Dyslexia still a blight for kids, despite treatment advances

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Despite advances in medical treatments for dyslexia over the past five years, not enough is being done to understand the causes of the condition to help kids struggling to read, concludes a seminarpublished online in The Lancet today.

Most children are only diagnosed with dyslexia after they have experienced serious difficulties in school, at a time when it is much harder for them to master new skills, and this could be thwarting their ability to fully realise their potential, say the authors.

“Professionals should not wait until children are formally diagnosed with dyslexia or experience repeated failures before implementation of reading treatment, because remediation is less effective than early intervention”, explain Robin Peterson and Bruce Pennington from the University of Denver in Colorado, USA.

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