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Great story about a group of students who developed a video game and got chosen to represent their country at the First Lego League (FLL) World Championship to be held at Johannesburg, South Africa in May 2015. Read how it works in the link for today. It isn’t yet available but just a prototype.
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A website has been developed in France that can adapt written texts to the needs of dyslexic children. The website, which was the result of intuition from the social start-up Aidodys, allows the user to load pages of reading, exercises and lessons in various digital formats and generate the same documents in readable versions for those who suffer from dyslexia, dysphasia or dyspraxia. This helps young users to distinguish the spaces between words, to tell capital letters from lower case as well as different punctuation marks. Intended for parents, teachers and medical professionals, the website allows you to customise the results based on the needs of each user.
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Great article about the difficulties that dyslectic students have when in class.
Dr Kirkby’s research with The Language and Literacy Group at Bournemouth University investigates how dyslexia affects learners when they are reading from classroom whiteboards.
“Classroom learning is the bedrock of school education, which relies heavily on copying and note-taking. Copying from a board presents serious difficulties to learners with dyslexia,” said Dr Kirkby.
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Apparently we recognize words like we recognize faces. For me I would wish that I could remember names with faces like I can remember words but I digress.
The visual dictionary (officially known as the ‘visual word form area’) lies on the left side of the brain in the fusiform gyrus: the side normally involved in processing language. Interestingly, the fusiform gyrus on the right side of the brain is important in recognising faces.
The use of this area for words is probably not a coincidence. “There’s a ‘neuronal recycling hypothesis’ which says that word recognition falls in this area because you need to make fine discriminations between words – which is similar to what you do with faces – but you also need the linguistic left side of the brain,” says Dr Laurie S. Glezer, who led the study.
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The library in Denver has discovered how beneficial the audiobooks can be. Another option is Learning Ally who also provide this as an app for the kids smartphone or tablet.
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MindPlay has unveiled a new online professional development program that gives K-12 educators strategies for spotting and teaching dyslexic students.
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