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Light on Dyslexia

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FRENCH company Lili for Life has introduced the Lili lamp, designed to help people with dyslexia to read thanks to a patented technology awarded by the French National Academy of Medicine.

Designed for everyday use, the Lili lamp helps dyslexic people of all ages to get access to more fluent and enjoyable reading. Thanks to its patented technology, the lamp allows an immediate and easier decryption of words, while reducing the tiredness experienced during a prolonged reading session.

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More space, easier read

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Extra space between letters helps children read faster and make fewer mistakes, study finds:

A study by Anglia Ruskin University looked at the benefits of letter spacing and coloured overlays among a group of dyslexic and non-dyslexic children. 

It discovered that text with increased space between each letter provided a benefit to both groups.  

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Aldi to sell dyslexia friendly books

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An author from Kildare who writes books that are accessible to young people with dyslexia is set to have her works feature on supermarket shelves nationwide.

Having announced the six winners of Grow with Aldi 2021 back in September, Aldi has selected 21 Irish producers and given them the opportunity to sell their wares in Aldi stores nationwide.

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Helping students with dyslexia through music

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A new app will soon help more than 50,000 Israeli students learn English through an innovative app that immerses them in popular music. Getting kids to interact with the words in real life through music is a very effective learning tool, and we are finding that dyslexic and special education students are responding especially well

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Do we have a new wonder tool to cure reading problems?

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After years of research, Carlsbad eye doctor and Dyslexia expert, Dr. David Bloch, has developed new super tools that correct reading disabilities in record time. His Reading Without Limits program is so unique that it has a patent pending. Parent Pat W. said, “I worked as a senior education consultant for the USA at the world’s largest education company, Dr. Bloch’s tools and processes are easily one of the three best programs I’ve ever seen in North America.”

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New tech tool for dyslexia

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Noah Text Releases Free, Easy-to-Use Tech Tool To Make Reading Easier for Dyslexic and Struggling Readers

Noah Text highlights critical word patterns within texts, enabling struggling readers, developing readers, those with dyslexia, and English language learners to read with increased fluency, accuracy, and stamina while building skills and confidence. Noah Text allows readers to see sound-parts within words, providing a way for them to decode and enunciate words that are otherwise difficult to access. The resulting improvements in reading accuracy and fluency free up cognitive resources that readers can devote to comprehending the meaning of the text.


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“Schoolvision” for dyslexia

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Schoolvision is not a ‘one size fits all’ treatment but rather a journey that requires patience and time to see the results. It’s a relatively simple programme with the main requirement being that the child or adult wears their prescription glasses for everything up ‘close’ throughout the programme.

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Dyslexia and Dyscalculia

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If you know a lot about dyslexia, you already know a lot about dyscalculia. Both learning disabilities are similar but still very different. The knowledge about Dyscalculia though forms a great basis to branch out and start learning about dyscalculia too, so you can also help children who have dyscalculia. Dr Schreuder has an online Dyscalculia Tutor Training that can help you get there in about 3-6 months, all online in your own pace.

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Reading Horizons reviewed

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See the review of the online program to work with students who have dyslexia.

Reading Horizons is a comprehensive, interactive reading system based on the principles of Orton-Gillingham. Simply put, Orton-Gillingham takes the idea of “sounding things out” to the next level. Rather than just teaching students to break down words into their sounds, it teaches the sounds in a specific order and trains the brain to recognize them. 

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AI to the rescue | new tool

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OrCam, a Jerusalem-based company has developed a device that can read full pages of text aloud from any printed or digital device. This includes content from newspapers, books, computers, or smartphones. OrCam seeks to help people with reading disabilities such as dyslexia, mild to severe vision loss, reading fatigue, and even those who read large volumes of text.

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Few dyslexic students benefiting from an online tool that’s costing Texas millions

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The Texas Education Agency has bought a service from a company but not everyone is happy with it yet.

The company began charging the state for $410,000 a month in October for the online platform before any students signed up for it and before any school districts were asked to participate. Critics say too few children are getting help for too great a cost, especially because districts must still pay their instructors to work with students using the platform.

Many Texas school districts do not use the curriculum offered by the service, which advocates say could make them less likely to sign up for it.

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Work in the advertising industry with dyslexia

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Dyslexia is often referred to as a superpower by the advertising industry who support the idea that neurodiverse people are often more creative and artistic, because they can think differently and more holistically than neurotypical people. However, thousands of students with dyslexia looking to break into the industry are still being put at a disadvantage, until now……….

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Dyslectic friendly book

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The Calf and the Cuckoo contains a dyslexic-friendly design and layout. illustrated by renowned wildlife artist Gordon D’Arcy, Shane alludes to a number of small changes that have facilitated this dyslexic friendly design. “We use a combination of special dyslexia font, colour schemes, and layout to make it easier for children with dyslexia to read,” he states.

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Scanning pens all the rage during the pandemic

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A Wiltshire tech company that makes scanning pens to help dyslexic people read has experienced a surge in demand during the pandemic.

Westbury-based Scanning Pens said its products had become “vital” for children with special educational needs, who had lost the support of classroom assistants this year.

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New dyslexia app in the making

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A team in the UK has proposed an app called ‘Dimming Dyslexia’ to analyze online text and other educational resources and translate them into formats that are easier for those with dyslexia to understand. The app can present written text as videos and cartoons, and change font size and colors on the page to present more dyslexia-friendly formats.

The all female team won the BT young pioneer award which means they will be supported to develop the prototype into a working app with the help of BT experts.

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