Free Q&A Service, Encouraging Parents and Teachers to ask Dyslexia Related Questions

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Seeing the gap between what is known about dyslexia and remediation in Science, and what is understood about the subject by parents and teachers, Dynaread Special Education Corporation has launched a free online Q&A service. Dynaread hopes to help bridge the gap of science versus public dyslexia understanding by offering people the ability to get answers to their dyslexia related questions.

 

Dynaread has a team of reading specialists who can assist parents and teachers by providing them with answers to their reading remediation related questions. A simple to use online web form at https://dynaread.com/service/askQuestionForm is all it takes to get into contact with Dynaread?s team of reading specialists and ask a question about dyslexia.

 

With 5-10% of children struggling with reading, dyslexia is an issue facing many parents and teachers. Though a neurological issue, completely unrelated to intelligence, many people misunderstand what dyslexia is, and not being able to properly read has caused pain and embarrassment for parents and children alike.

 

Dekkers, CEO of Dynaread, states: ?At the annual IDA conference in Chicago a few months ago, I had the opportunity to personally meet one of America?s leading pioneers in dyslexia research and advocacy, Dr. Sylvia O. Richardson, MD, former President of the International Dyslexia Association . As someone who is passionate about helping struggling readers myself, I asked her what she could challenge me with. She stated: ?In spite of all the efforts of the International Dyslexia Association, all the advancements in reading sciences, and all our current understanding in reading disorders, this information has not yet reached the general public, nor our educational institutions.?

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Dyslexia Centre launches new video

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The learning difficulty primarily affects reading and spelling skills, and so the Indigo Dyslexia Centre wanted to find an easier way for people to learn about how it can help, rather than having to read a leaflet or its website.

The charity, which is based at the Charing Cross Centre in St John Maddermarket, has been working in Norwich since 2003, and offers free advice and guidance, but also has a shop and a series of paid-for services available.

Chief executive Martin Parsonage said: “Our clients often struggle with reading and writing and so we didn’t want them to have to read our website.

“We had the video professionally made to explain what we do and how we do it.

“We started 10 years ago on a dining room table with volunteers and it was borne out of frustrated individuals who were dyslexic themselves.

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Are Dyslexic Students Being Overlooked?

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Dyslexia is diagnosed when it is discovered that a child has problems processing language. Five percent of schoolchildren are said to have problems learning to read with most of those students being dyslexic. Dyslexia is diagnosed more often in boys than girls. Unfortunately, dyslexia often goes undiagnosed for too long. Many people make it into adulthood before ever realizing there was a problem that could have been treated.

The dyslexia_teacher.com website states, “Learning disabilities often lead to long-lasting psychological harm unless they are caught early… But many kids slip through undiagnosed, it says, leaving them unable to function later in life.” These misdiagnoses can result in depression, anxiety, and suicide.

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Dyslexia still a blight for kids, despite treatment advances

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Despite advances in medical treatments for dyslexia over the past five years, not enough is being done to understand the causes of the condition to help kids struggling to read, concludes a seminarpublished online in The Lancet today.

Most children are only diagnosed with dyslexia after they have experienced serious difficulties in school, at a time when it is much harder for them to master new skills, and this could be thwarting their ability to fully realise their potential, say the authors.

“Professionals should not wait until children are formally diagnosed with dyslexia or experience repeated failures before implementation of reading treatment, because remediation is less effective than early intervention”, explain Robin Peterson and Bruce Pennington from the University of Denver in Colorado, USA.

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The dyslexia racket and the alternative

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Shortly after I started teaching in a secondary school, in the early seventies, I had a conversation with an eleven year old who had “bunked off” my English class, and who, I discovered, could not read. No-one had told me about this when I took over the class – a colleague asked me if I didn’t believe in “self-fulfilling prophecies” – and the deputy head told me with equanimity that “lots of boys in the first year can’t read”.

My response was to become a reading teacher, and from that time onward, I’ve been doing all I can to teach reading and other aspects of literacy as effectively as possible so that people will be able to read, with their problems either knocked out or severely cut down. After a few years, a certain amount of success and a couple of articles, I was introduced to an American book written during World War Two, with the educationally unfashionable title Remedial Techniques in Basic School Subjects, whose author, Grace Fernald, had developed simple and effective approaches to serious reading difficulties, including some caused by brain damage. She had done equally good work on basic arithmetic, and her insights into foreign languages coincided with work I’d done with children who had been failing in French (my degree subject).

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It’s Not Sci-Fi: Baboons Can Learn To Recognize Words

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Baboons can recognize scores of written words, distinguishing them from non-words, a feat that raises intriguing questions about how we learn to read, scientists reported. The experiment points to visual-attention shortfalls, rather than problems in the brain with speaking or hearing, as an explanation for dyslexia in children.

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