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Online program to help children with dyslexia

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Dyslexia: News from the web:

The Irish independent reports on a customized literary program that seems to help children with their dyslexia.

The course is made up of streamed video tutorials and graphics with interactive exercises that can be carried out at school and at home. Elisha did the online WordsWorth programme for 15 minutes in school every day and 15 minutes at home. She moved up from the 2nd percentile to the 22nd percentile in just 7 months.

Read all about it HERE and find the program HERE

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Dyslexia in High School does not disappear in college

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Here is a report about the finding that kids who have had help with their dyslexia in High School apparently do not request this in college:

Just a quarter of US students who received help for their disabilities in high school acknowledge in college that they need the same assistance, according to the National Centre for Learning Disabilities. While 94 per cent of high school students with learning disabilities get some kind of help, just 17 per cent of college students do.

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Dyslexia helped by video games

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Here is a conclusion from recent research that will surprise most of us:

“We propose that training people with dyslexia to shift attention quickly from visual to auditory stimuli and back — such as with a video game, where attention is constantly shifting focus — might also improve literacy,”

Read all about it HERE Read also our earlier posts on this HERE and HERE

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