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Read up about the struggles our dyslectic pupils have when learning mandarin! It is a debate however as some say that the pictorial nature of the language may actually come easier for the students than French.
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For a recent paper in the Postgraduate Medical Journal, Jean Robson at Dumfries & Galloway Royal Infirmary in Dumfries, UK, and colleagues interviewed seven dyslexic first-year physicians in the Scottish National Health Service. Most said they had not disclosed their dyslexia and had experienced difficulty with communication, time-management and anxiety. (The paper is online here: bmj.co/1LKRIB4.)
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Prime Minister Erna Solberg has been open about her life-long struggle with dyslexia, and perhaps never moreso than this week, when she faced criticism over a message she had written on her Facebook page.
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A group of Plano middle schoolers wants to help those with the reading disability by developing a mobile app that will allow users to customize text to their specific needs.
“Dyslexia is a really big problem in the world,” said David Yue, 13. “It doesn’t mean that someone is not smart. They just have a disability or a neurological misfiring that doesn’t allow them to read as well as other people. We wanted to give every dyslexic a chance to be able to excel in school and all the activities they do.”
Yue and fellow eighth-graders from Rice Middle School developed the concept for an app called Mind Glass as part of a Verizon Innovative App Challenge. The team was one of eight national winners, earning $20,000 for the school and the opportunity to work one-on-one with professionals from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build the app.
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Nice story about a girl who joins the water polo team only to find out that not knowing left from right is kind of an issue when playing water polo!
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This is the title of a new book by Firdevs Dede, who is a specialist dyslexia tutor who lives and works in London. Firdevs combines the fiction with the daily realities of creative dyslexic people in this educational novel. She is the founder of Three Dimension Dyslexia
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