Having trouble focusing on your book? Try immersive reading

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When Briggitte Suastegui heard about Christopher Nolan’s film adaptation of The Odyssey, she wanted to go back to its source material. She decided to start reading The Iliad first but had trouble getting through it.

Suastegui’s friend had a suggestion for her: Why not try the audiobook?

“He was like, ‘Well, you know the oral tradition of epic poems, right?'” Suastegui remembered. “‘Originally these things were shared down and passed down orally.'”

But Suastegui, 29, said she often lost her place while listening. So she took it a step further: She tried reading a physical copy of The Iliad and listening to the audiobook version at the same time.

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Wired differently: How I rise above dyslexia

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On paper, I look like any other high-achieving student. My grades are almost always between 95 and 100. But what those numbers don’t show is how much harder I have to work than everyone else just to get there.  

I have dyslexia, and I go to a school that wasn’t really designed for me. 

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Language development in the brain

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The brain’s capacity to use and understand language expands rapidly in the first years of life, as babies start to make sense of the words they hear and eventually begin to piece together sentences of their own. The language-processing parts of the brain that make this possible continue to evolve in older children, as they expand their vocabularies and learn to use language more flexibly.

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He failed his A Levels and can’t spell – but now runs his own company

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Cameron Bell refused to let his struggles through school years hold him back in life. Now, he’s living proof of what you can achieve when you set your mind to it.

Cameron, from Bolton, is dyslexic, and found school a struggle from the earliest age. He scraped through his GCSEs but then failed his A-levels at Eccles College.

But undeterred, he was determined to get to university eventually. By hard graft, he ended up excelling at the prestigious London School of Economics, went on to high flying roles with billion-dollar valued companies and is now the CEO of his own company after receiving the backing of a prestigious entrepreneur scheme.

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