Analysis of 2023/2024 data reveals stark disparities in GCSE attainment once again highlighting the significant challenges faced by dyslexic students within the UK education system. Our ‘Mind the Gap’ report sheds light on the enduring academic disadvantage experienced by these students, despite ongoing efforts to address educational equality.
Read this article from the dyslexia association HERE
Sarah Myhill and Patricia Covarrubia from The University of Buckingham’s Dyslexia Hub team were invited to attend the ‘Education & Skills’ Garden Party at Buckingham Palace earlier this month in recognition of their commitment to raising dyslexia and neurodiversity awareness and support.
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These models are remarkable. They can match or exceed human performance on countless tasks, for example, diagnosing cancers from visual slides better than any human. And yet a recent study found a surprising result: All major MLLMs currently struggle to tell time on analog clocks. According to the study, GPT-4o was only able to correctly read clock faces 8% of the time. Claude-3-5-sonnet was worse at 6%. Gemini 2.0 was the best, but still at only 20%.
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Chef Jamie Oliver says a new documentary about dyslexia was the “most viscerally painful” thing he has ever done.
The 50-year old celebrity chef has lived with the learning difficulty all his life and will now present a one-hour documentary on Channel 4 titled Jamie’s Dyslexia Revolution.
See the whole interview HERE
The neurobiological and developmental learning disorder dyslexia possibly affects up to 15 per cent of the population, but it remains difficult, time-consuming and expensive to accurately diagnose. Screening tools, especially online checklists, can help individuals self-evaluate risk factors, but few if any have been scientifically validated until now.
In a paper published in the journal Dyslexia, Concordia researchers became the first to show that the Dyslexia Adult Checklist, a free online resource developed by the British Dyslexia Association and among the most widely used dyslexia checklists globally, is both valid and reliable as an indicator of dyslexia. They do recommend, however, lowering the threshold of mild dyslexia from its current level.
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There is plenty of research around SLD – such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia – but teachers and schools need to be involved in the development of new approaches, says Gillian Stirton
A motivated corps of experts, developers, entrepreneurs and others create ways to combat the difficulties and downstream disadvantages that come with SLD such as dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia, or combinations of these.
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