Dyslexia: News from the web:
Check out this story, of a man who has been helped by wearing tinted glasses. One of several methods recommended to help fight Dyslexia.
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Here is an opinion from someone who challenges the use of the word dyslexia and cautions that the school may be at fault for failing to teach the child to read.
Here is a nice controversial conclusion by the writer:
” However, if some child who otherwise seems perfectly normal is failing to learn to read in school, the problem is probably in the school, not in the child. The solution is to fix the school, not label the child as disabled.”
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New research from the University of Helsinki suggests that humans begin to distinguish between sounds before they are even born. Eino Partanen and colleagues explored how prenatal experiences influence learning. “We wanted to find out what kind of material foetuses can learn in the womb, what kind of neural representations they form,” he said.
Can this be developed into any kind of therapy or intervention for infants? Partanen thinks so. Problems such as dyslexia, he thinks, could be approached at a much earlier level. Although there is no way of knowing whether a baby is going to develop dyslexia, with some degree there are factors that you can look into to see whether or not they are at risk. Dyslexia is partly genetic, for example. In this case, prenatal therapy could be developed for risk groups in order to facilitate learning.
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Embracing Dyslexia is a documentary film that will help educators and parents understand what dyslexia is, explain why it is important for students struggling with reading, writing, and spelling to be screened for dyslexia as early as possible, and show the effect proper tutoring and classroom accommodations can have on the ability for these students to have a chance at being successful in school.
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“Parents need to be concerned when children are not making adequate educational progress,” says Michael Assel, PhD, associate professor of pediatrics and a staff psychologist for the Children’s Learning Institute at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). “Essentially, we are talking about a child who is struggling in a content area important for school, typically reading, math or written language.”
Before jumping to conclusions, Assel cautions parents to consider an important issue when thinking about learning differences in their child. “One of the first things that must be considered is the educational environment,” he says. “We want to ensure that a child has had appropriate exposure to quality teaching. For example, it would be unfair to describe a child as having a disability in the area of reading unless that child has been provided with appropriate instruction in [that subject].”
When parents become certain the educational environment is not the problem, then it’s time to confront the possibility that their child might have a learning disability.
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Brain scans may allow detection of dyslexia in pre-school children even before they start to read, say researchers.
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