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Reading Group marks 40 years of helping kids teach themselves

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These days, it’s not uncommon to hear about dyslexia or other learning disabilities.

But when The Reading Group began its work to help children with dyslexia and other challenges, people tended to think of it as a disease for a doctor to treat, said Marilyn Kay, the organization’s founder and its former executive director.

Research and common knowledge about the subject have come a long way in the last 40 years, she said, and so has The Reading Group.

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Richmond College flies the flags for dyslexia

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Hundreds of little flags were planted at Richmond College last week, as part of an initiative to help students affected by dyslexia.

The flags were planted under direction of artist Jon Adams, a fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts, who is dyslexic himself and explained to students how art helped him tackle his learning disability and involved them in a practical workshop.

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Don’t deny – defy dyslexia

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The day Steve Jobs died my son came home from school and asked me:

“Can I also please be dyslexic like Steve?”

Dumbfounded I stared at him as he rambled on about Steve Jobs, about Mac and how “awesome” it was.

Technological icon Steve Jobs left behind a silver bitten apple, a legacy of hard work and most importantly a realisation that learning differences are a gift – not a stigma.

The problem

Nobody truly knows the origins of learning differences. The spectrum is wide and deep, ranging from low attention span, weak memory, speech problems, auditory issues, literacy and numeracy challenges, vestibular and cognitive development and social interaction to behaviour issues this wide umbrella is widening at a startling pace and deepening at an alarming rate. Genetics, diet, environment, academic pressures and competition are all contributing to this increase. Yet the most resonating factor is denial from parents.

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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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The Dyslexic Advantage

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Over the holidays I have been reading, between wrapping packages, decorating the tree and visiting with friends and neighbors, the book, The Dyslexic Advantage:  Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain,” by Brock L. Eide and Fernette F. Eide.  While reading this book I have yelled in enthusiasm, cried real tears, wondered what might have been, and have been sad and positive in the same moment.  It is a very positive book about dyslexia.  It’s about hope and opportunities for those that have this type of brain.  I’ll write more about this book in a future blog.  What i plan to write today is an individual’s background being a dyslexic–me.  Problems, hopes, techniques, the sadness of it all…

The earliest I remember being in school was in second grade in Harrison, New York.  I knew early on I was different–I had troubles with spelling words, with reading and in doing “my numbers.”  That’s all I remember of the class except that the female teacher was big.  Not fat, but a large grandmotherly type who was not friendly.  That’s what I remember.  I also remember wanting to do well.

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