Dyslexia: News from the web:
Arizona is only the 15th state to create a handbook to help schools identify traits of dyslexia. The handbook also outlines changes that can be made in how these students learn like taking tests with computers rather than handwritten tests or implementing more visual lessons.
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Amberlynn Slavin, an occupational therapist and the creator of the fantastic app for kids with dyslexia and dysgraphia, SnapType. Amberlynn designed SnapType to give kids who have learning disabilities that impact their handwriting an easy way to fill in worksheets so they don’t fall behind in class. Created only two years ago, SnapType has been downloaded more than half-a-million times and is being used in more than fifty countries.
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This week, Times Higher Education is publishing a series of stories about life on campus with a disability. Here, Nigel Lockett talks about being a dyslexic professor
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Well, actually I don’t think there is a Miss Dyslexia but the current contender for Montana in the Miss USA pageant will represent not just Montana but children with ADHD and Learning disabilities
“It made things hard for me both socially and education wise,” she said, referring to her dyslexia and ADHD. “So now I go around to schools and talk to kids about challenges they may face — such as these learning disabilities — and how to overcome them with hard work… It’s their differences that make them unique.”.
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Mbulaheni believes that out of all disabilities the one that kills the most confidence is a learning disability because of how much society prioritises education.
”In this kind of condition, I can’t attain a matric certificate or even go to university simply because of the way my brain is set up.
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A Caller spoke to George Hook on High Noon today, explaining that the spectrum when it comes to the severity of dyslexia is extremely broad.
“My three children were all diagnosed with different levels of dyslexia,” he said. “As parents, we did the usual – we researched everything, and we got in to the Dyslexia Association of Ireland.”
McDaid explained that homework can be quite traumatic for students with dyslexia, particularly reading exercises, as students struggle to make out letters in words.
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