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Today we bring you some links and resources:

Please go to change.org and sign the petition to get congress to require that testing agencies grant accommodations for dyslexic students so that high stakes tests assess ability and not disability, and students are allowed to go forward and succeed in life. High stakes tests must be reliable, valid and accessible to dyslexic children and adults. Without accommodations, highly capable, intelligent students are being denied the opportunity to show what they can achieve. Click HERE

 

 

Yale has opened a website for Dyslectic people with lots of information. It is called the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Go check it out, Click HERE

 

And we are happy to report that the project Dyslexia-ville has been sufficiently supported to become a reality. Follow all developments by clicking HERE

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Support Dyslexia-Ville

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Peggy Stern, The academy award winning celebrity, has started a project to create Dyslexia-Ville. Dyslexia-Ville will be the world wide safe haven for dyslectics and there will be a web series to support the initiative.

She has assembled a group of specialists around her to get the project going and Jay Leno, who also struggled with Dyslexia his whole life, has kindly made tickets available for top sponsors of the project.

Read all about it HERE

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New eBook Released Helps Parents Homeschool a Child with Dyslexia

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Writer and homeschooling mother Kerry Jones, in collaboration with Time4Learning.com, has released a new eBook aimed at parents who are homeschooling a child with dyslexia. “Successfully Homeschooling a Child with Dyslexia” comes from the 12 years of experience Jones had homeschooling her own son with dyslexia.

Read all about it HERE

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Dyslexic students aim to break world reading record

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Twelve students from Colorado Springs participated in a 500-student reading relay aiming to break the previous world record of 415 people reading a single book at one time.

The book, Sword of Darrow, is written by Hal Malchow and his son Alex, who also battles severe reading disabilities. It is a fantasy novel filled with stories and characters specifically written for those with dyslexia.

Read all about it HERE

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