Confidence boost for children with dyslexia

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From time to time we stumble across wonderful blog posts or news paper articles that outline again the positives that can come out of having to deal with dyslexia in your life.

Richard Branson is often named as someone who has dealt with it in a positive manner and he is quoted as saying that dyslexia gave him a great business advance on other entrepreneurs.

The article in our link today highlights some of it, provides tips for parents, corrects some myths and provides a poem written by a dyslectic author.

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Dyslexia and configural perception of character sequences

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Developmental dyslexia is a complex and heterogeneous disorder characterized by unexpected difficulty in learning to read. Although it is considered to be biologically based, the degree of variation has made the nature and locus of dyslexia difficult to ascertain. Hypotheses regarding the cause have ranged from low-level perceptual deficits to higher order cognitive deficits, such as phonological processing and visual-spatial attention.

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video game for dyslexia developed by students

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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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Dyslexia podcast

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From the UK a podcast about people and their dyslexia. Here is the story:

Sean Douglas is an internet broadcaster with a background in broadcast TV news, PR, corporate comms and podcasting. After battling through the UK education system and being launched into the world of work. Although successful, Sean always knew something was different. Finally in his late-twenties Sean was diagnosed with Dyslexia; a diagnosis that changed his life in unimaginable ways. After meeting other dyslexics who stories touched, inspired and angered him, Sean created The Codpast to share those stories with a wider audience.

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