A new animated film has been developed to challenge negative attitudes and misconceptions about dyslexia, after research found that many children feel “hopeless” because of how the learning difference is often described.
The charity Made By Dyslexia, which is behind the animation, surveyed 5,000 dyslexic adults and young people, along with their parents and teachers, including 2,000 participants from the UK.
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Progress has always been made by people who think differently. Neurodiversity helps us think outside the box – and when we do, the sky’s the limit
That matters, because dyslexia is still so often described only in terms of what it makes difficult. And yes, some things are difficult. Reading and writing are still a slog, processing information can take more brain power than I would like – and my spelling remains gloriously unreliable. But difficulty is not the whole story. Not even close.
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For the first time researchers have used an advanced AI model that understands both images and language allowing them to model dyslexia, paving the way for potential new treatments.
Dyslexia, the world’s most common learning disorder impacting reading, spelling and writing, is estimated to affect up to 20% of the global population. Until now, traditional approaches to studying dyslexia, such as behavioral and neuroimaging methods, have provided valuable insights but remain limited in their ability to test the underlying mechanisms of reading impairments.
Now, researchers from EPFL’s NeuroAI Lab , part of the Schools of Computer and Communication Sciences and Life Sciences have modelled dyslexia using next-generation Vision Language Models, that can fully model the whole pipeline from seeing words to processing and understanding the context.
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