Dyslexia: News from the web:
fast forward to 40:00 in the video for the part about dyslexia.
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Does Dyslexia also impact movement?
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Dyslexia shows its symptoms also in movements. This is a discovery made by a team of Italian researchers at theUniversity of Milan Bicocca and published in Human Movement Science. According to experts, that have analyzed the handwriting of a group of children with learning disabilities, the duration in writing every single letter of a word is not constant. It varies according to the dimension and speediness of written speech.
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Dyslexia a vision problem?
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The debate rages on, HERE is an article that claims that there is now consensus that dyslexia is not primarily a vision problem. However HERE is an article criticizing this finding.
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Dyslexia not linked to eyesight, says study
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“Some practitioners feel that vision impairments may be associated with dyslexia and should be treated. However, our study results show that the majority of dyslexic children have entirely normal vision on the tests we used,” said Cathy Williams, lead author and a paediatric ophthalmologist.
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Neurobiology of learning disabilities
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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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