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Gadget to help dyslectic children

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For dyslexic children, the multi-sensory approach to learning — from sight to sound — is a struggle, which is what a team from Nanyang Polytechnic (NYP) hopes to address with an enhanced teaching tool.

Called the ProCubeX, the cuboid-shaped gadget works with an application loaded with lesson plans of varying difficulty levels.

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The Human Cost of Dyslexia

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The human cost of letting our students continue on without the appropriate intervention is unacceptable. We’re doing targeted research-based, intensive instruction; three kids to one teacher ratio, 45 minutes a day. It’s something that we really haven’t done before in public education.

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Technology for Dyslexia

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A presentation skills tool has been developed by by the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) and a group of students from Nanyang Technological University. It is aimed at dyslexic students who will be entering tertiary institutions. It will be introduced to 50 students across 14 DAS centres in September.

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End of Dyslexia

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Well not really but read the great story by Lisa Wood Shapiro, who was and is dyslectic but has found remarkable ways to get around most issues and works as a writer. She says:

But I’ve never thought of myself as having a disability. Instead, I see it as a glitch, and one I’ve gotten good at masking. I’ve been able to hide my dyslexia for decades simply because I live in an age of technological wonders. Microsoft Word spell-checks most every syllable I write. When my dyslexic mind mangles a word so much that it’s rendered un-spell-checkable, I’ll deploy an arsenal of workarounds. I might reverse-engineer a word by typing an easy synonym into the thesaurus, or I might paste my best attempt into my browser bar and let the search engine offer the correct spelling as a suggested query.

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