Category Archives: Treatment

“Reading Focus Card” to Help Students with Dyslexia & ADD/ADHD

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Experienced teacher Joan Brennan was concerned when she saw some of her students struggling with reading. Wanting to help them focus on the texts they were trying to read so that they would comprehend them better, she invented the Reading Focus Card.

The Reading Focus Card allows students with disabilities such as dyslexia or ADD/ADHD to easily read text by viewing it one line at a time. This way, they won’t be distracted or confused by endless lines of text. The card works to promote differentiated instruction by providing students with a different avenue to process and comprehend content and ideas.

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Empowering Parents to Help Their Kids Succeed

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Kids with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning disabilities are as intelligent as others, and often have great strengths–but they learn differently. If your child, or a child you know struggles with learning or attention issues, this website is for you. Learn from the experts—professionals and parents just like you—how to get off the sidelines and help your child succeed in school and in life.

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Specialist teacher training support for dyslexic pupils

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Here’s a fact you probably don’t know… one in 10 of us has some form of dyslexia.

“The condition stays with people for life. Some people can accommodate it to an extent, others find it more difficult.

“Like colour blindness, it is a condition that is hidden and sometimes not even recognised.”

“Many thousands of children across the whole ability range are not getting the help they need and are not even being diagnosed, because of the lack of specific training for teachers,”

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Getting past the barrier of disability in training

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ONE thing that Chris Quickfall has learned in his time is that, when you’re training someone with a disability, the disability shouldn’t dominate the process.

Quickfall set up Invate in 2006, not long after he was diagnosed with dyslexia, in a bid to offer technologies to help disabled people in education and employment.

“It’s one of the largest assistive technology companies in the North East now”, he said. “But this stuff isn’t a magic box. Training is the key to unlocking the technology.

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Color-Filtering Lenses: Better Reading for Dyslexics?

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Specially tinted lenses originally developed for color blindness are helping some U.S. dyslexics read faster and see words more clearly, confirming the claims of the lenses’ British inventor and the company that started selling them here in September.

As soon as Max Klinger, a Miami first-grader recently diagnosed with dyslexia, got glasses with the special lenses, “all he wanted to do is read,” his mother Michelle Klinger said. “He told me the letters stopped moving; they stopped popping out for him. He went from a child who hated reading to asking, ‘Can we go buy chapter books?'”

Although Max, 6, has worn the lenses only a month, “I see a huge difference,” his mother said Tuesday. “His behavior is completely different. I see a confident child, excited to go to school, excited to read. I attribute it to the glasses. That’s the only change we’ve made.”

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Advent calendar

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The American Dyslexia Association presents an advent calendar for you and your children. Every day a door will open and you can download a worksheet: pictures to trace, find the picture, sudoku, coloring pages, and so on, all about Christmas of course. The worksheets are plain and simple, so the children can concentrate on the task at hand.

Information for teachers and parents: These exercises are ideal for training attention and sensory perception, 2 important factors for reading, writing, calculating and learning in general.

Have fun!

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