Category Archives: Dyslexia overview

Self-diagnosed dyslexics allowed to skip airport queues and given VIP lounge entry

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Self-diagnosed dyslexics are now allowed to skip airport queues and are handed free VIP lounge entry.

Travellers with “hidden disabilities”, a term which encompasses a number of mental health conditions like ADHD and autism, can exploit a long list of luxury privileges without medical proof.

Holidaymakers taking advantage of the extra travel perks can enjoy a life of luxury in the airport lounges, sipping on free champagne while being offered an array of culinary delights, including hot food buffets and fruit platters.

They can also receive priority boarding as well as free seat collection, all with a simple wave of a sunflower lanyard.

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Dyslexia in children: Awareness and support crucial for academic success

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Local nurse, Ntokozo Pule is calling for greater awareness and understanding of dyslexia, urging parents to better support children with learning challenges. She explains that dyslexia is a learning difference that affects reading, spelling, and written language processing, even though children have normal intelligence and access to adequate schooling.

“It is not a sign of laziness or lack of ability, but rather a different way the brain processes information.

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Turn Your Library Into a Dyslexic Positive Literacy Hub and Help Kids Learn to Read

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Transform your library into a literacy hub where kids are learning to read, including:

  • Science of Reading in libraries
  • The disconnect between literacy privilege and unmet literacy needs
  • Building empowering, productive relationships with “reluctant readers”
  • Aligning storytime and PK–YA programing with reading development phases
  • Partnering with literacy specialists to build decodable book collections
  • Removing barriers such as spelling bullying
  • Disrupting generational cycles of literacy avoidance and shame
  • Weeding discrimination and ineffective literacy methods (examples: leveled readers, sight words, Fountas & Pinnell)

The DPLI is grounded in literacy expertise, research, and dyslexic lived experience.

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