Dyslexia has a bad reputation

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Prof Usha Goswami is a leading expert in the field – accessorised by her many titles: professor of cognitive developmental neuroscience, fellow at St John’s College Cambridge, and director of the Centre for Neuroscience in Education.

This month, she joins the Hay Festival’s line up, to talk on dyslexia and the brain.

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The importance of a proper diagnosis

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A study done at the University of Washington concludes (not surprising):

It is important that kids receive a proper diagnosis, then specialized instruction tailored to it, said Virginia Berninger, an educational psychologist who worked with Richards on this study and othersand heads the UW Interdisciplinary Learning Disabilities Center.

“So many of these kids never get the kind of instruction they need,” Berninger said, “and we just keep showing over and over again that if you find out what’s wrong and you teach that skill, voilà, they can learn.”

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Move your desk for dyslexia

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Researchers in Chicago have found that students with certain learning challenges have a need to move around in order to better focus. Marvel Group has now developed a desk that will help this by being able to be adjusted without disrupting class. Have you seen any of these desks  coming into your students classroom yet?

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