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Free Q&A Service, Encouraging Parents and Teachers to ask Dyslexia Related Questions

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Seeing the gap between what is known about dyslexia and remediation in Science, and what is understood about the subject by parents and teachers, Dynaread Special Education Corporation has launched a free online Q&A service. Dynaread hopes to help bridge the gap of science versus public dyslexia understanding by offering people the ability to get answers to their dyslexia related questions.

 

Dynaread has a team of reading specialists who can assist parents and teachers by providing them with answers to their reading remediation related questions. A simple to use online web form at https://dynaread.com/service/askQuestionForm is all it takes to get into contact with Dynaread?s team of reading specialists and ask a question about dyslexia.

 

With 5-10% of children struggling with reading, dyslexia is an issue facing many parents and teachers. Though a neurological issue, completely unrelated to intelligence, many people misunderstand what dyslexia is, and not being able to properly read has caused pain and embarrassment for parents and children alike.

 

Dekkers, CEO of Dynaread, states: ?At the annual IDA conference in Chicago a few months ago, I had the opportunity to personally meet one of America?s leading pioneers in dyslexia research and advocacy, Dr. Sylvia O. Richardson, MD, former President of the International Dyslexia Association . As someone who is passionate about helping struggling readers myself, I asked her what she could challenge me with. She stated: ?In spite of all the efforts of the International Dyslexia Association, all the advancements in reading sciences, and all our current understanding in reading disorders, this information has not yet reached the general public, nor our educational institutions.?

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Dyslexia Centre launches new video

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The learning difficulty primarily affects reading and spelling skills, and so the Indigo Dyslexia Centre wanted to find an easier way for people to learn about how it can help, rather than having to read a leaflet or its website.

The charity, which is based at the Charing Cross Centre in St John Maddermarket, has been working in Norwich since 2003, and offers free advice and guidance, but also has a shop and a series of paid-for services available.

Chief executive Martin Parsonage said: “Our clients often struggle with reading and writing and so we didn’t want them to have to read our website.

“We had the video professionally made to explain what we do and how we do it.

“We started 10 years ago on a dining room table with volunteers and it was borne out of frustrated individuals who were dyslexic themselves.

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The dyslexia racket and the alternative

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Shortly after I started teaching in a secondary school, in the early seventies, I had a conversation with an eleven year old who had “bunked off” my English class, and who, I discovered, could not read. No-one had told me about this when I took over the class – a colleague asked me if I didn’t believe in “self-fulfilling prophecies” – and the deputy head told me with equanimity that “lots of boys in the first year can’t read”.

My response was to become a reading teacher, and from that time onward, I’ve been doing all I can to teach reading and other aspects of literacy as effectively as possible so that people will be able to read, with their problems either knocked out or severely cut down. After a few years, a certain amount of success and a couple of articles, I was introduced to an American book written during World War Two, with the educationally unfashionable title Remedial Techniques in Basic School Subjects, whose author, Grace Fernald, had developed simple and effective approaches to serious reading difficulties, including some caused by brain damage. She had done equally good work on basic arithmetic, and her insights into foreign languages coincided with work I’d done with children who had been failing in French (my degree subject).

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How music therapy became the key to literacy

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Erin was ready to try anything to get her 11-year-old son to learn to read. He was avoiding school at all costs, lagging behind his peers and disadvantaged by developmental dyslexia. Then, help came in an unexpected form.

A music therapist invited the Humpty Doo schoolkid to take part in a program called Art Stories.

“Ben was not very comfortable with reading and writing – he gets the letters back to front,” Erin Evans says.

“I have seen music therapy work before in different areas of health and well being, and I was grasping for any kind of assistance to get Ben to enjoy school and do some work in the classroom,” she said.

And so began a year-long journey which saw Ben not only learn to read, but take his new-found passion home with him.

“I used to not read at all, now I do a bit,” Ben says shyly.

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Student, 17, has designs on dyslexic help

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A TRELECH student, who could soon be a patented inventor thanks to an idea inspired by her sister, is looking for help to market her design.

Georgina Nichol-James, 17, of Caerwenog, Trelech, has designed a special educational toy, named the named X-ray i, designed to help dyslexic children improve their reading.

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Differential Diagnosis and Treatment for Dysgraphia, Dyslexia

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Today\’s Presentation. 1. Providing a Conceptual, Research-Based Model for Diagnosis and Treatment of 4 specific learning disabilities2. Diagnostic Flow Charts for each specific learning disability3. Treatment Implications4. Problem Solving Consultation with Teachers5. Building Trusting, Caring, Culturally Sensitive Home-School Connections.

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