Pip is dyslexic

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Douglas Booth, who has just starred as Pip in BBC1’s hit version of Great Expectations, only took up acting as he feared his dyslexia would block other careers.

Now, following his lead role in the classy Dickens adaptation, hordes of girls are demanding to know where he has come from.

Twitter has gone into meltdown, with female fans feverishly declaring their adoration for the 19-year-old.

One wrote: “I can’t cope with how beautiful he is. It hurts.”

Another said: “How many women were crying out for Pip to have a Mr Darcy moment in the water just then?!”

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“Reading Focus Card” to Help Students with Dyslexia & ADD/ADHD

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Experienced teacher Joan Brennan was concerned when she saw some of her students struggling with reading. Wanting to help them focus on the texts they were trying to read so that they would comprehend them better, she invented the Reading Focus Card.

The Reading Focus Card allows students with disabilities such as dyslexia or ADD/ADHD to easily read text by viewing it one line at a time. This way, they won’t be distracted or confused by endless lines of text. The card works to promote differentiated instruction by providing students with a different avenue to process and comprehend content and ideas.

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Empowering Parents to Help Their Kids Succeed

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Kids with dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning disabilities are as intelligent as others, and often have great strengths–but they learn differently. If your child, or a child you know struggles with learning or attention issues, this website is for you. Learn from the experts—professionals and parents just like you—how to get off the sidelines and help your child succeed in school and in life.

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Scientists Find Key Brain Differences in Dyslexia

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The Brains of People With Dyslexia May Have Trouble Processing Sounds, Especially Speech

People with dyslexia sometimes see words and letters as scrambled, making reading a difficult task. Now a new study shows that dyslexia isn’t just a visual disturbance. It also appears to be a problem with the way the brain interprets sounds, particularly speech.

The study appears in the journal Neuron.

French researchers mapped the brain activity of 23 people with dyslexia and 21 people without the disorder as they listened to a white noise.

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Differences in how people process sounds might be one cause of this learning disability, study suggests.

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Problems in how people with dyslexia process the sounds they hear may be at the heart of this learning disorder, new research suggests.

The study findings, published in the Dec. 22 issue of the journalNeuron, may one day lead to better therapies for children and adults who are diagnosed with this common yet still ultimately mysterious condition.

And different people with dyslexia may have differences in brain-processing patterns, which could help distinguish subtypes of the disorder.

Dyslexia affects about 5 percent of school-aged children.

Although we “typically think of dyslexia as an impairment of reading or the printed word, previous research has suggested that there’s an auditory-processing component. . . It’s not just the printed word but also auditory,” said Dr. Andrew Adesman, who was not involved with the study but is familiar with the findings.

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Specialist teacher training support for dyslexic pupils

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Here’s a fact you probably don’t know… one in 10 of us has some form of dyslexia.

“The condition stays with people for life. Some people can accommodate it to an extent, others find it more difficult.

“Like colour blindness, it is a condition that is hidden and sometimes not even recognised.”

“Many thousands of children across the whole ability range are not getting the help they need and are not even being diagnosed, because of the lack of specific training for teachers,”

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