Dyslexia in High School does not disappear in college

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Here is a report about the finding that kids who have had help with their dyslexia in High School apparently do not request this in college:

Just a quarter of US students who received help for their disabilities in high school acknowledge in college that they need the same assistance, according to the National Centre for Learning Disabilities. While 94 per cent of high school students with learning disabilities get some kind of help, just 17 per cent of college students do.

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Dyslexia helped by video games

Dyslexia: News from the web:

Here is a conclusion from recent research that will surprise most of us:

“We propose that training people with dyslexia to shift attention quickly from visual to auditory stimuli and back — such as with a video game, where attention is constantly shifting focus — might also improve literacy,”

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Is solving dyslexia really that easy?

Dyslexia: News from the web:

If we believe the statements from reading vision, a newly formed company from 2012, we should be able to solve dyslexia for most kids following their method.

In their own words:

Reading Vision is a company devoted to helping struggling readers. Our goal is to help them “see” the words more clearly, which in turn will improve their fluency and comprehension, and ultimately help build their confidence as a student. The Reading Vision system, commonly referred to as “Penny Power®” was developed by a dyslexic, George Manilla, M.D. In 2012 Dr. Manilla recruited Joe de Braga and Linda Lindsey to form the Reading Vision company. Since that time we have trained teachers across northern Nevada as well as worked with hundreds of individual students in Nevada and Wyoming.

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