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Technology can help with fighting your Dyslexia condition. Here is the story from a 16 year old high school student who uses two programs to work through high school.
They are the Kurzweil 3000, a text to speak program, and Bookshare, a free online library of ebooks for people with print disabilities.
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Today we bring you some links and resources:
Please go to change.org and sign the petition to get congress to require that testing agencies grant accommodations for dyslexic students so that high stakes tests assess ability and not disability, and students are allowed to go forward and succeed in life. High stakes tests must be reliable, valid and accessible to dyslexic children and adults. Without accommodations, highly capable, intelligent students are being denied the opportunity to show what they can achieve. Click HERE
Yale has opened a website for Dyslectic people with lots of information. It is called the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity. Go check it out, Click HERE
And we are happy to report that the project Dyslexia-ville has been sufficiently supported to become a reality. Follow all developments by clicking HERE
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Practical strategies for working with pupils with Developmental Disorders Jane Baines September 2008
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We had reported about the spacing between letters being one of the tools to allow people with Dyslexia to read easier. Now there is an app in the Apple store, for free, that will help accomplish just that, the adjustment of the spacing.
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Peggy Stern, The academy award winning celebrity, has started a project to create Dyslexia-Ville. Dyslexia-Ville will be the world wide safe haven for dyslectics and there will be a web series to support the initiative.
She has assembled a group of specialists around her to get the project going and Jay Leno, who also struggled with Dyslexia his whole life, has kindly made tickets available for top sponsors of the project.
Read all about it HERE
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