Dyslexia; News from the web:
Devices that amplify the sound of a teacher’s voice may help children with dyslexia improve their reading skills, new research suggests.
After a year of wearing the devices in the classroom, children with dyslexia had improved scores on tests of phonological awareness and reading.
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Dyslexia News from the web:
We are not sponsored by Dynaread but we need to talk to you about them. This company, who offers reading remediation for children with Dyslexia in 200 lessons, has an extensive library online with information and resources related to the learning disability.
Now as reading is not the strong point from the target audience they have updated their site with Ivona Text-to-speech technology. When you browse their site you will be presented with a red “listen” button that will give you the story verbally. It sounds really well and probably as good as my talking GPS in the car.
In the library they offer articles, explanations and some videos.
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Today we bring you a link to the blog from Abigail Marshall, who is the Webmaster & Internet Information Services Director for Davis Dyslexia Association International.
She presents a picture with at first sight scribbles but at later reflection a message. Her point is that learning to read should focus on whole word pattern recognition to make deciphering easy for our mind.
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Questia is an online resource that is well trusted. They provide high quality sources about all kinds of topics and also about Dyslexia. We provide the link today to their special about Dyslexia.
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For our Dyslexic readers with Android phones we have a link here to a page with helpful applications to download on your phone. There are also links to other resources and pages with more apps to work with.
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A nice blogpost with some information about wired2learn. We don’t check all tools available but continue to point you to the ones we come across that seem to have some merit. Check out the comments on the blogpost in the link where someone makes a good point about Dyslectic children being able to read fluently in different languages than English as they were though that skill in a manner appropriately for them.
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