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Journey into Dyslexia

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Oscar winning Filmmakers Alan and Susan Raymond examine the complexities of the dyslexic brain, showing how it is structured differently, and debunk myths and misperceptions about dyslexia in the HBO2 documentary JOURNEY INTO DYSLEXIA. Dr. Margie Gillis will speak following the presentation of the film. She received her Doctorate of Education from the University of Louisville in Special Education, where she began her work training teachers of reading. She is President of Literacy How, Inc. and Director of Haskins Literacy Initiative, which promotes the science of teaching reading through professional development and classroom support for teachers. There will be a Q&A following the talk.

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Dyslexia school spells success

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A school which helps children with dyslexia and associated conditions back into mainstream education has been rated outstanding.

The Unicorn School, in Abingdon, is the latest special school in Oxfordshire to be given Ofsted’s highest accolade.

Following a recent inspection, the independent school was given an outstanding rating in every category.

At least eight special schools in Oxfordshire now have Ofsted’s highest rating, including Northern House School, in Summertown, Oxford, where pupils have behavioural, emotional and social difficulties, Swalcliffe Park School, near Banbury, which looks after children with autism, and Penhurst School, in Chipping Norton, where many of the children have complex medical needs on top of profound learning difficulties.

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Differential Diagnosis and Treatment for Dysgraphia, Dyslexia

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Today\’s Presentation. 1. Providing a Conceptual, Research-Based Model for Diagnosis and Treatment of 4 specific learning disabilities2. Diagnostic Flow Charts for each specific learning disability3. Treatment Implications4. Problem Solving Consultation with Teachers5. Building Trusting, Caring, Culturally Sensitive Home-School Connections.

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School honoured for dyslexia help

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CHURCHFIELDS Academy is celebrating being awarded a Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark.

The award is given only to those schools that can demonstrate their total commitment to making sure that the whole school is welcoming and supportive to all pupils with dyslexia, and has built in dyslexia-friendly systems and teaching right across the school.

It is awarded by the British Dyslexia Association, and the award to Churchfields Academy is one of the first to a mainstream school in Swindon.

Headteacher Steve Flavin said: “I’m delighted we have been awarded the Dyslexia Friendly Quality Mark.

“Churchfields is striving to become the best school in Swindon, as demonstrated by school league tables showing that our pupils make better progress than any other school in the town, and we are pleased that our efforts are being recognised by national bodies such as the British Dyslexia Association.

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Senators discuss dyslexia

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Citing phone calls from frustrated parents, a Senate committee discussed a bill to help identify and effectively teach dyslexic students Thursday.

Sen. Steve Abrams, R-Arkansas City, the author of the bill, said the concerns were raised last year as well, but state education officials said dyslexia is a medical condition and therefore difficult for a teacher to diagnose.

So this year he rewrote the bill to focus on aiding students who have already been diagnosed by a medical professional.

“I think that’s probably the biggest frustration the parents have talked to me about,” Abrams said during a committee hearing Thursday. “For those that have gone and received a medical diagnosis of dyslexia, for them to be ignored by the school system, that is a frustrating situation. To say, ‘You don’t know, the doctor doesn’t know, we know better about how to train your child,’ — that is exceptionally frustrating for a lot of these parents.”

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Dyslexia and the Rockefellers

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One of the great ironies of the Progressive Education Movement is that its leaders were able to convince John D. Rockefeller, Jr. that he ought to give his sons a good progressive education and donate $3 million to the Lincoln School, a new experiment in social education in accordance with John Dewey’s radical new ideas. So he put Nelson, Laurence, Winthrop, and David in the school, which turned them all into dyslexics, proving that progressive reading programs can cause dyslexia.

Unfortunately, Rockefeller’s four sons were some of the earliest victims of school-induced dyslexia, a condition they had to deal with for the rest of their lives.

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