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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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It’s Not Sci-Fi: Baboons Can Learn To Recognize Words

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Baboons can recognize scores of written words, distinguishing them from non-words, a feat that raises intriguing questions about how we learn to read, scientists reported. The experiment points to visual-attention shortfalls, rather than problems in the brain with speaking or hearing, as an explanation for dyslexia in children.

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Reading Group marks 40 years of helping kids teach themselves

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These days, it’s not uncommon to hear about dyslexia or other learning disabilities.

But when The Reading Group began its work to help children with dyslexia and other challenges, people tended to think of it as a disease for a doctor to treat, said Marilyn Kay, the organization’s founder and its former executive director.

Research and common knowledge about the subject have come a long way in the last 40 years, she said, and so has The Reading Group.

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Journey into Dyslexia

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Oscar winning Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond examine the complexities of the dyslexic brain, showing how it is structured differently, and debunk myths and misperceptions about dyslexia in the HBO2 documentary JOURNEY INTO DYSLEXIA. Dr. Margie Gillis will speak following the presentation of the film. She received her Doctorate of Education from the University of Louisville in Special Education, where she began her work training teachers of reading. She is President of Literacy How, Inc. and Director of Haskins Literacy Initiative, which promotes the science of teaching reading through professional development and classroom support for teachers. There will be a Q&A following the talk.

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