Housing group offers help to dyslexic residents

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A WINSFORD housing association is offering a helping hand to some of its residents who suffer from dyslexia by supplying free specialist rulers.

Muir Group Housing Association is giving away coloured rulers which people with dyslexia can use when reading.

Jean Broster, service improvement officer at Muir Group, which manages properties in the town, said: “We decided to start giving away the rulers following feedback from a resident.

“We already give away magnifying strips that help the visually impaired.

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Dyslexic students aim to break world reading record

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Twelve students from Colorado Springs participated in a 500-student reading relay aiming to break the previous world record of 415 people reading a single book at one time.

The book, Sword of Darrow, is written by Hal Malchow and his son Alex, who also battles severe reading disabilities. It is a fantasy novel filled with stories and characters specifically written for those with dyslexia.

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third grader overcomes dyslexia to win national poetry contest

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A poem about his battle with dyslexia led a Klein ISD third grader to win a national poetry contest.

“Dyslexia is like a blueprint that I have to finish. It’s like a disease that never goes away. When I miss a word it feels like a tower that I have to destroy. Reading out loud is hard. It’s like being stuck in traffic on a huge highway with angry old men honking at me. When I draw, I forget about towers and honking horns. I am in my own world of Paper Craft People and me,” wrote nine-year-old Peyton Bolden.

Peyton always knew he was smart, just in a different way than his peers. When he was in first grade, Susan Collier, reading specialist at Mittelstädt Elementary, also took notice. Peyton was extremely shy, had speech problems, and was having a harder time with comprehension and learning in the classroom. Having seen it all before, Collier soon diagnosed Peyton with dyslexia during his second grade year.

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Living with Dyslexia: Anna Franz story

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When Anna Franz, a 23-year-old UAB exchange student from Munich, Germany, was in elementary school, she desperately told her mother: “Mommy, I think there is only space for one word in my head.” She realized that she had much more difficulty learning how to read and write than most other children of her age.

Franz is one of several persons in her family to struggle from dyslexia, a reading and writing disorder.

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Angie Le Mar, comedian

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Being dyslexic. I trained as an actor, but because of my dyslexia I have great trouble sight-reading. So I kept going to auditions and not getting the roles. Then one day I went to a comedy club and asked if I could tell some jokes. It was 27 years ago, when there were no black British female standups. I became the first.

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Dyslexia’s coloured answer

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MANY children are falling under the radar.

Four out of every 30 students are likely to be suffering from visual dyslexia.

Often referred to as Irlen Syndrome, it is a specific and common form of dyslexia frequently overlooked by optometrists and in the education system.

Dr Peter Freney from Irlen Diagnostic Clinic in Buderim is calling on Queensland schools to get educated on the matter.

“In Australia we don’t do dyslexia very well,” he said.

“It needs better recognition in schools and there is a lot of room for teacher education for them to understand the process better.”

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