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A great Dyslexia teacher can make all the difference

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A year and a half with an extraordinary reading teacher can make all the difference in the life of a dyslexic child.
For Daniel Giese Franklin, that influential person was Shirley Gott at the old Clinical Teaching Center in South Wellfleet.
The center, also known informally as the Marconi School, was part of the Nauset Regional School District in the 1970s and ’80s. The school was housed in three former military barracks at what is now the headquarters of the Cape Cod National Seashore. The school had a yearly enrollment of about 50 students between the ages of 10 and 17, from all parts of the Cape, with learning disabilities or emotional issues.

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How the dyslectic copes

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When we take the car to go somewhere and my dyslectic daughter is driving we need to give her directions like “YOUR DOOR” or “MY DOOR” to tell her left or right.

The article in the link today talks about situations I can totally relate to and tells the tricks used by the writer to cope with dyslexia in his youth.

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A book for children with dyslexia from a child with dyslexia

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Zivia Avelin, of Mt. Airy, is only 11 years old, but she has already helped illustrate and write “Spell Shaper,” a book designed to help kids with dyslexia or other kinds of reading disabilities. Sarah Aghajanian, of Fairmount, wrote the book with Avelin’s assistance.

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3D printing and Dyslexia

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Read the story from someone with Dyslexia who discovers how well they can work with 3D printing.

3D printing lets those with dyslexia reveal talents to themselves that are otherwise concealed, opening their interest into STEM in ways that textbooks and complex formulas cannot.

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