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A non profit supports parents of children with Dyslexia. We all know how difficult it can be to navigate the public school system and how long it may take to get your child the resources s/he needs. Parents can use all the support they can get!
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A BUDDING inventor with dyslexia has created a new toy to help children learn to read and write.
Laura Young, from Darwen, designed and made the Umpees prototype as part of her product design degree because she found it hard to learn English in school.
The 21-year-old said the handheld toy can either take pictures and record footage or record sounds which then can be played back or printed.
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In the UK a pilot has been started at about 15 colleges to provide additional help for people with special educational needs to facilitate internships that will be suitable for them.
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Joan Brennan maintains a blog that provides you with help and resources to work on getting Dyslexia under control or at least have the school districts offer classroom accommodations to your struggling reader. A wonderful initiatives. We have not tested her invented focus reading card yet but we support anyone who raises awareness about Dyslexia.
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Technology can help with fighting your Dyslexia condition. Here is the story from a 16 year old high school student who uses two programs to work through high school.
They are the Kurzweil 3000, a text to speak program, and Bookshare, a free online library of ebooks for people with print disabilities.
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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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