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Dyslexia in Arabic

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Dr Paterson and a team of co-researchers, including Prof Timothy Jordan, a psychologist at Zayed University in Dubai, have just released findings that help to pinpoint how people see words in Arabic and how reading methods compare with those of English. They analysed how readers fixate, or direct their eyes at, words, studying where along in a word fixation takes place and how long it lasts.

The work is not just of interest to academics, as knowledge of the processes of how the eyes see words in Arabic could help lead to a greater understanding of conditions such as dyslexia, in which people find it difficult to recognise and to spell words.

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A pioneering research on the underlying causes of dyslexia is about to start

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A unique research project on the developmental dyslexia has been launched at the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Warsaw. It is aimed at examining different factors responsible for development of the reading disorder. Children from the first five classes of primary school are encouraged to participate. They will have the chance to play computer games and have fun in a mock scanner.

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Remedies for Dyslexia

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You need to read the whole story about the various remedies for dyslexia but the following passage struck me as very interesting:

Developed in the 1930s by Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham, the Orton-Gillingham method teaches those with dyslexia to read in a systematic and sequential way.

Best one-on-one or in small groups, it employs multisensory techniques – words and letters that can be physically touched and pulled apart – to help children remember language rules that typical readers may pick up without thinking. But while the approach has been in use for nearly a century, like many interventions for dyslexia, there is no scientific evidence of its efficacy.

Likewise, scientific study is lacking on the effectiveness of the Arrowsmith Program, despite a 30-year track record and 5,000 case studies, said Howard Eaton, director of the Eaton Arrowsmith School in Vancouver and Victoria.

The program attracts students from all over the world. Base tuition is close to $30,000 a year.

As with Orton-Gillingham, there has yet to be a controlled study that offers evidence that it works. A randomized controlled clinical trial is where one intervention is compared with another, or to no intervention at all, and is proven to be more effective.

This evidence is necessary before the academic community at large will take the program seriously, said Mr. Eaton, who would like to see more children, including those in public schools, access the Arrowsmith Program.

There are a number of studies now in progress on the effectiveness of the Arrowsmith Program, including some at the University of British Columbia’s Brain Behaviour Lab. Data is to be published next year

We will be eagerly awaiting the results of the studies.

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Dyslexia and learning sounds

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have found that people with Dyslexia need significantly more time to learn sounds.

“Our finding that procedural learning is impaired in dyslexia is important because it links observations of procedural learning deficits in dyslexia, which are not language-specific, with the phonological impairments so typical of dyslexia.”

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