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Peggy Stern, The academy award winning celebrity, has started a project to create Dyslexia-Ville. Dyslexia-Ville will be the world wide safe haven for dyslectics and there will be a web series to support the initiative.

She has assembled a group of specialists around her to get the project going and Jay Leno, who also struggled with Dyslexia his whole life, has kindly made tickets available for top sponsors of the project.

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Dyslectics read better on mobile screens?

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A new study shows that people with Dyslexia can read better when they read content on a small screen from a mobile device.

Already in the 1980s there was research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.on a related issue. The MIT cognitive scientists found dyslexics tend to have a broader visual span or peripheral vision than non-dyslexics. Participants in the 1980s study who read through a “window” cut into a piece of paper reported improved comprehension because the technique focused their attention.

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Fight Dyslexia with online reading games

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Edugamestar is a new website by the Reading and Writing Institute to help children with their Dyslexia through online reading games.

You will know the phenomenon that your child can sing every line from a lady GaGa song yet has trouble retaining other knowledge. Edugamestar tries to work that angle and engage the children with some games.

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Dyslexia Doesn’t Need to Be Permanent

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The answer to overcoming dyslexia requires bridging the gap between scientists and educators, says Dorothy van den Honert, author of the new book, “Wiping Out Dyslexia with Enhanced Lateralization: Musings from my forty years of wiping” (published by AuthorHouse).

In the book, van den Honert outlines her Reading From Scratch program, a new teaching strategy for children with dyslexia. The program, based on years of van den Honert’s research, is designed to get a child up to grade level or better in a year or two of lessons.

“As a teacher for over 11 years, I saw the misery of children suffering from dyslexia first-hand, as the usual teaching techniques failed,” van den Honert says. “Clearly just phonics was not the problem, so I realized that the delivery system had to be faulty.”

The book tells the story of how van den Honert used neurology to form a plan for teaching students with dyslexia to read. She also reflects on the validating experience of passing on the technique firsthand to the students she taught.

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New eBook Released Helps Parents Homeschool a Child with Dyslexia

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Writer and homeschooling mother Kerry Jones, in collaboration with Time4Learning.com, has released a new eBook aimed at parents who are homeschooling a child with dyslexia. “Successfully Homeschooling a Child with Dyslexia” comes from the 12 years of experience Jones had homeschooling her own son with dyslexia.

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A Successful Career Without Credentials

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John “Jack” R. Horner is Regents Professor of Paleontology at Montana State University and the curator of paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman. He studied geology and paleontology at the University of Montana, Missoula, but undiagnosed dyslexia made it impossible for him to obtain a degree. He went on to become a leader in the fields of dinosaur growth and behavior. As described in his2011 TED talk biography, “Horner discovered the first dinosaur eggs in the Western Hemisphere, the first evidence of dinosaur colonial nesting, the first evidence of parental care among dinosaurs, and the first dinosaur embryos.” Horner has also discovered several new dinosaur species and worked as a scientific consultant for the Jurassic Park movies (also inspiring the movies’ main character) and for TV documentaries. He has two honorary doctorates: one awarded by the University of Montana 1986 and another by the Pennsylvania State University in 2006.

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