Wired differently: How I rise above dyslexia
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
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
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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The Geometry of Dyslexia: Why M and W Are the Same Object
A Metronome, Not a Mouse: An Affordable Approach to Dyslexia
Strengthening rhythm and timing builds the foundation for reading—and it can be done simply and affordably.”
New research is reshaping how dyslexia is understood, showing that brain timing and rhythm play a critical role in learning to read. While many technology-based interventions address these findings, their high cost puts them out of reach for most families.
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