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Masons and Dyslexia

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Did you know that the Scottish Rite Masons play a very active role in battling dyslexia in 13 states: In their own words:

The Masons made the following philanthropic pledges:

o    To help children with dyslexia learn to read and to reach their full potential;
o    To help their families end the frustration, guiltand disruption caused by dyslexia;
o    To help communities by developing Children’s Dyslexia Centers to help youngsters succeed in and out of school.

Children’s Dyslexia Centers, Inc. provides tutoring at no charge to children from early elementary through high school who have been diagnosed as dyslexic. Children are eligible regardless of economic status or Masonic affiliation. The positive impact of early intervention on the lives of these children and their families is enormous and inspires our commitment to this program.

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A better way or learning for dyslectics

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Dyslexia: News from the web: Research from the University at Buffalo shows a new method of learning:

A neuroimaging study by a University at Buffalo psychologist suggests that phonics, a method of learning to read using knowledge of word sounds, shouldn’t be overlooked in favor of a whole-language technique that focuses on visually memorizing word patterns, a finding that could help improve treatment and diagnosis of common reading disorders such as dyslexia.

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Myths about Dyslexia

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From time to time it is good to check if our facts about dyslexia are real or distorted. There is much information available but also many people make up their own reality and oversimplify dyslexia’s facts and symptoms. So here a nice short article to help us out with four of the most common misconceptions.

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Dyslexia research debate

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Commenting on a new MRI dyslexia study, Levinson claims its findings are accurate. However, “the results of this important study were incorrectly interpreted due to an inadequate clinical understanding of dyslexia, its neurophysiological origins, and its many symptoms and helpful therapies.”

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Dyslexia and pronounceablility

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Great Study!

Overall, children with dyslexia were impaired when they had to process strings, not only of pronounceable stimuli but also of unpronounceable stimuli, a deficit well accounted for by a single global factor. By contrast, they were much less affected when they had to recognize an isolated letter (and no global factor was present) and could take advantage of a pronounceable context, effectively using the ortho-phono-tactic information derived from a previously seen letter string. Therefore, the present findings are in keeping with the proposal that an impairment in pre-lexical graphemic analysis is a core deficit in developmental dyslexia at least in a regular orthography (such as Italian) while they are inconsistent with the alternative view that orthographic–phonological binding may represent a proximal cause of dyslexia.

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The rest of the story about the font for Dyslexia

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Here is an opinion about the font for people with dyslexia that, in short, states that there is no scientific proof that these fonts actually help. The writer cites some studies and agrees that it is a great idea but alas not scientifically proven to be a significant help. In the articles are a few tips about writing that DO help so read on to see what we can do to help the dyslectic readers.

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