Volunteer program 
offers free tutoring for dyslexia

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Brilla and Miller have started the Lake Superior tutoring Center for Dyslexic Children and Adults, Inc. (LSTC) which will provide evaluations to identify dyslexia and offer a tutoring service based on the Barton method. LSTC is available for students residing in Ashland, Bayfield and Douglas counties in Wisconsin, at no charge and without discrimination.

Miller said the system was designed for parents to use to tutor their own children and is very user friendly.

“With each new level Monica’s son attains, I learn the next level,” she said. “The manual has a complete script to work from and video training to demonstrate each lesson.”

Brilla said LSTC has three goals, to educate communities by providing information, to offer one-on-one tutoring to children or adults, and to reach out to schools and organize volunteer programs.

“We need students, volunteers and donations,” said Brilla. “We are reaching out to area service organizations as well. Eventually we want to have a permanent site and for now we are hoping to use the school library or other appropriate sites.”

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Teachers gain a new ability to help

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One teacher admits she could use help to deal with the children in her classes with extra needs. More importantly, she would like some strategies to try once they have been identified.

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For Dr Woods this is a pleasing moment. She is part of a team, led by Professor Patrick Griffin, that has been trialling the Abilities Based Learning and Education Support (ABLES) research project in 250 Victorian schools for more than five years. This year the program is being rolled out in all state schools.

The project began about eight years ago when researchers in the Assessment Research Centre of the Melbourne Graduate School of Education decided the best way to help children with disabilities was to provide teachers with better materials and advice to create individual learning plans.

An online program was developed that allows teachers to record observations about children and place them on a developmental path.

“It helps a teacher recognise what they are seeing from the child’s behaviour. It points them to what the child can do and is ready to do next,” says Dr Woods. “We are taking the knowledge special education teachers have when they look at these kids and giving it to other teachers.”

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Dyslexia Impacts Math

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According to an article entitled, The Impact of Dyslexia on Math” by Rosalind W. Rothman, Ed.D., Director, Language and Learning Associates & Claire Lavin, Ph.D., Professor, College of New Rochelle, “The mastery of the symbolic language of mathematics involves many verbal cognitive processes that can be affected by dyslexia. Ignoring the impact of dyslexia on the mastery of mathematics can hamper a child’s progress in school and in life.”

Children with dyslexia may need tutoring and accommodations in Math as well as Reading, Writing, and Spelling.

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Doctors flip view of dyslexia

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When most people think of the word “dyslexia,” they think of someone who writes letters backward, said Bainbridge Island mom Charlotte Rovelstad.

“Typically, as a parent, you realize your child is not progressing as expected in reading, writing or math, and that’s your entryway into dyslexia,” she said.

That was the case for her when her bright child came home from school discouraged and falling behind.

Rovelstad embarked on a mission to educate herself about dyslexia and in so doing came upon the work of Dr. Brock Eide, and Dr. Fernette Eide.

The Seattle-based doctors, authors of “The Dyslexic Advantage” and “The Mislabeled Child,” cite brain research that turns the common stereotype about dyslexia on its head.

Those who fall under the category of dyslexic are not slow or dumb, they say, but have unique brain structure and organization that processes information in a completely different way than the general population.

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Journey into Dyslexia

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Oscar winning Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond examine the complexities of the dyslexic brain, showing how it is structured differently, and debunk myths and misperceptions about dyslexia in the HBO2 documentary JOURNEY INTO DYSLEXIA. Dr. Margie Gillis will speak following the presentation of the film. She received her Doctorate of Education from the University of Louisville in Special Education, where she began her work training teachers of reading. She is President of Literacy How, Inc. and Director of Haskins Literacy Initiative, which promotes the science of teaching reading through professional development and classroom support for teachers. There will be a Q&A following the talk.

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Dyslexia school spells success

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A school which helps children with dyslexia and associated conditions back into mainstream education has been rated outstanding.

The Unicorn School, in Abingdon, is the latest special school in Oxfordshire to be given Ofsted’s highest accolade.

Following a recent inspection, the independent school was given an outstanding rating in every category.

At least eight special schools in Oxfordshire now have Ofsted’s highest rating, including Northern House School, in Summertown, Oxford, where pupils have behavioural, emotional and social difficulties, Swalcliffe Park School, near Banbury, which looks after children with autism, and Penhurst School, in Chipping Norton, where many of the children have complex medical needs on top of profound learning difficulties.

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