Dyslexia not detected or accepted in public schools

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By law, public schools must identify and serve students who have learning disabilities, which includes dyslexia, dysgraphia and other reading-related disorders.

But Marks says public districts don’t exactly make it easy for parents to get their child the help they need.

Speaking from personal experience it is a hell of process to work through the bureaucracy of the public school system to get your kid the facilities it needs for their Dyslexia.

Not everyone will be able to afford the money to get a private screening by a psychologist, because that was what it took for us to force the school district into action. Very disappointing and very frustrating. Read the story about the Chicago school system through the link below.

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Dyslexia and Creativity

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Soren Peterson, writes a nice article about Dyslexia and creativity.

Right-brained and left-brained, masculine and feminine, blue-eyed and brown-eyed: Are certain kinds of people more creative than others? Many of the super creative designers I have worked with seemed to have one thing in common; they suffered from dyslexia. Looking back in history, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Jørn Utzon, Agatha Christie and Albert Einstein were all dyslexic. So, is dyslexia linked to creativity?

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Forget memory training

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New research shows that training of the short term memory to aid problems like Dyslexia, is not working. The only thing it will do is help with the specific task that was trained but it will not improve verbal skills, attention, reading or arithmetic.

So much for all the newly developed computer programs that claim to train short term memory to help Dyslexia. The research was done by researchers from the University of Oslo and University College London and examined 23 different peer reviewed studies that support these new findings.

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Jay Leno is Dyslectic

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Jay Leno is also suffering from Dyslexia. This is a fine example of what you can accomplish with dedication and how Dyslexia can bring the best out of people.

About 10% of the population suffers from Dyslexia but records show that among entrepreneurs 35% has Dyslexia. Another example of the creativity, dedication and endurance that Dyslectics have.

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