Dyslexia: News from the web:
How very well intended advice can be so horribly wrong. An exchange that was shared all over the social media gave a little girl unfortunately the wrong advice.
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A study done at the University of Washington concludes (not surprising):
It is important that kids receive a proper diagnosis, then specialized instruction tailored to it, said Virginia Berninger, an educational psychologist who worked with Richards on this study and othersand heads the UW Interdisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center.
“So many of these kids never get the kind of instruction they need,” Berninger said, “and we just keep showing over and over again that if you find out what’s wrong and you teach that skill, voilà, they can learn.”
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Researchers in Chicago have found that students with certain learning challenges have a need to move around in order to better focus. Marvel Group has now developed a desk that will help this by being able to be adjusted without disrupting class. Have you seen any of these desks coming into your students classroom yet?
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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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