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Non profit dyslexia tutor training

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The basic goal is to provide affordable, qualified and certified tutors to help local children learn to read by sending a small group of educators to a three-day training program at the University of Utah Reading Clinic in Salt Lake City. Because the focus is on actual educators, local schools will benefit from having these trained tutors using their knowledge in the classroom as teachers. But the teachers will also work as private tutors outside the classroom walls, working one-on-one with dyslexic children.

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New tool found to help children with Dyslexia

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A study conducted at a top UK school has demonstrated that Microsoft’s OneNote, a digital notebook has helped dyslexic children to improve on their reading and spelling abilities. Microsoft teamed up with British Dyslexia Association (BDA) to lend school children Surface laptops in a Surrey school that specialises in teaching children with language related conditions. Twenty children with dyspraxia, dyscalculia, attention deficit disorder, specific language impairment and autism took part in an eleven week trial to see if Microsoft technologies can benefit them.

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Make content accessible

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From Australia comes a guide with free advice on how to make content available on the web in such a way that people with cognitive disabilities, including dyslexia, will have no problem accessing it.

You need to register with the provider and confirm your email address but then you get the very useful guide that will allow you to follow the items one by one and make sure your site complies to help your content being accessible to those who may need it most.

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Integrated listening therapy

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See the case study in the link for today. This company claims that they make progress with children who have dyslexia by combining movement and music in the language lessons. Not sure about the results but the presentations that they make look promising, if you have experiences with them, let us know and we’ll be happy to pass them on.

Read all about it http://integratedlistening.com/g-parkdale-case-study/HERE

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