Dyslexia: News from the web:
MindPlay has unveiled a new online professional development program that gives K-12 educators strategies for spotting and teaching dyslexic students.
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It is important for parents to talk to their children about their dyslexia and how they feel about. Often they have shame for their learning disability and they should definitively get help with that.
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A group of Plano middle schoolers wants to help those with the reading disability by developing a mobile app that will allow users to customize text to their specific needs.
“Dyslexia is a really big problem in the world,” said David Yue, 13. “It doesn’t mean that someone is not smart. They just have a disability or a neurological misfiring that doesn’t allow them to read as well as other people. We wanted to give every dyslexic a chance to be able to excel in school and all the activities they do.”
Yue and fellow eighth-graders from Rice Middle School developed the concept for an app called Mind Glass as part of a Verizon Innovative App Challenge. The team was one of eight national winners, earning $20,000 for the school and the opportunity to work one-on-one with professionals from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build the app.
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From Malta comes this new game that is designed to help children with dyslexia. You need to see it in context though, just playing the game is not enough to solve dyslexia. In the interview about the game they also make a great point about why it is proper and important for children with dyslexia to take oral exams:
“after all, exams are meant to test knowledge of a subject rather than the medium with which they have to present that knowledge”
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The Aakash Odedra Company explores how the misconceptions of dyslexia can be revealed through visual design, light, sound and movement.
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A tablet designed specifically for dyslectic children by an Italian IT guy and father of a child with dyslexia.
La Dislessia: cos'è e come affrontarla by tabletascuola
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