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It is not easy to pass the driving test when you have dyslexia. The Italian dyslexia organization has written to their minister and asked for some accommodations. That should happen in more countries!
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Apparently we recognize words like we recognize faces. For me I would wish that I could remember names with faces like I can remember words but I digress.
The visual dictionary (officially known as the ‘visual word form area’) lies on the left side of the brain in the fusiform gyrus: the side normally involved in processing language. Interestingly, the fusiform gyrus on the right side of the brain is important in recognising faces.
The use of this area for words is probably not a coincidence. “There’s a ‘neuronal recycling hypothesis’ which says that word recognition falls in this area because you need to make fine discriminations between words – which is similar to what you do with faces – but you also need the linguistic left side of the brain,” says Dr Laurie S. Glezer, who led the study.
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The library in Denver has discovered how beneficial the audiobooks can be. Another option is Learning Ally who also provide this as an app for the kids smartphone or tablet.
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Dyslexics are no more prone to criminal behavior than any other population base. Yet they are grossly overrepresented in the youth justice system and prison population. In New Zealand, an estimated 10% of the population is dyslexic, yet percentages climb to well over 50% in the prisons.
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Nice article where they compare reading with dating, working from the assumption that kids love to read but only hate boring reading.
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Texas public schools are identifying just 2.5 percent of students as having dyslexia, a fraction of the number of students who experts say need help overcoming the common reading disability.
About 125,600 of the state’s 5.2 million public school students were identified as dyslexic, according to data released by the Texas Education Agency. That’s just a slight uptick from the 2013-14 academic year, the first one that state law required districts to report the number.
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