Category Archives: Research

The importance of a proper diagnosis

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A study done at the University of Washington concludes (not surprising):

It is important that kids receive a proper diagnosis, then specialized instruction tailored to it, said Virginia Berninger, an educational psychologist who worked with Richards on this study and othersand heads the UW Interdisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center.

“So many of these kids never get the kind of instruction they need,” Berninger said, “and we just keep showing over and over again that if you find out what’s wrong and you teach that skill, voilà, they can learn.”

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Move your desk for dyslexia

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Researchers in Chicago have found that students with certain learning challenges have a need to move around in order to better focus. Marvel Group has now developed a desk that will help this by being able to be adjusted without disrupting class. Have you seen any of these desks  coming into your students classroom yet?

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Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, Alzheimer, Music and the brain

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A very interesting story, making a couple of points about how brain damage impacts speech, reading, math and musical ability.The story explains how dyslexia and dyscalculia are due to different brain failures. It even goes as far as suggesting that Ravel’s Bolero with its countless repetitions may be a sign of Alzheimer in the composer.

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Dyslectic children cannot distinguish the stressed syllables

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The research about Dyslexia approaches the disability from two sides, either a visual problem or an auditory problem.

In today’s link an article about Spanish research that shows that children with dyslexia cannot distinguish the right syllable with emphasis. This indicates a problem with Prosodic Processing”

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Dyslexia and configural perception of character sequences

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Developmental dyslexia is a complex and heterogeneous disorder characterized by unexpected difficulty in learning to read. Although it is considered to be biologically based, the degree of variation has made the nature and locus of dyslexia difficult to ascertain. Hypotheses regarding the cause have ranged from low-level perceptual deficits to higher order cognitive deficits, such as phonological processing and visual-spatial attention.

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