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• Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities

  
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  Improving the health and wellbeing of people with learning disabilities   Department of Health, November 2009 Click on the title above to gain direct access to the full-text of this report Abstract: Recent inquiries have demonstrated the health inequalities faced by people with learning disabilities; ...
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• Athletes with intellectual disabilities will return to Paralympics - canada.com

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  OTTAWA — The International Paralympic Committee has decided to once again allow athletes with intellectual disabilities to compete alongside athletes with physical disabilities in the Paralympic Games. The IPC voted in favour of the decision at its Continue .. KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia - Athletes with learning ...
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• Press Release: "New Research Sheds Light on Chiropractic and ADHD" -- No It Doesnt!

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 131
  Michael McCoy, a chiropractor who has a number of enterprises going,  including McCoy Press , i  founded a new journal in 2009 , the  Journal of Pediatric, Maternal & Family Health - Chiropractic.  It sounds sciency, doesnt it?   It isnt.  One thing McCoy is excellent at is propagating press ...
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• The future of adult social care in England

  
  The Social Work Blog — Authority: 130
  Quick straw poll: Has the delivery of frontline adult social care services remained high on the agenda for your organisation, despite the economic crisis? A large majority (84%) of social care workers and managers at the Transforming the Adult Social Care Workforce: Putting People First conference in London on ...
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• U.S. National Paralympics rowing team in Austin - News 8 Austin

  
  Beijing 2008 Stadium — Authority: 145
  Men and with women with physical injuries, including Afghanistan and Iraq veterans, trained for the Paralympics games in Austin Friday. The Texas Rowing Center is holding the rowing camp all weekend long. The camp is a precursor to the selection of Continue .. Athletes with learning disabilities to compete in ...
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• Columnist: ‘Sadly, most people with a learning disability should not have children’

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 433
  Minette Marrin, writing in the [UK] Sunday Times, reacts to a BBC2 documentary about a couple with Down syndrome who are deciding whether to marry. Marrin’s sister has an intellectual disability. An excerpt:It is hard enough to be an adequate parent with supposedly normal intelligence. For someone of very low ...
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• Pregnant woman with learning disabilities flees to keep baby

  
  Disability News | PatriciaEBauer.com — Authority: 433
  From the  [UK] Daily Mail, [UK] Times:A pregnant woman with learning disabilities and her fiance have reportedly fled Scotland after social workers threatened to take away their baby at birth, saying the woman was not capable of raising the child.Two months ago, the couple’s wedding was halted 48 hours before the ...
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• Joe Elliot and The Myth of Dyslexia, Revisited

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 131
  Julian (Joe) Elliot of Durham University (UK) was at the center of a row in 2005 the UK when he claimed that "dyslexia is a myth", specifically: "Contraryto claims of ‘miracle cures’, there is no sound, widely-accepted bodyof scientific work that has shown that there exists any particularteaching approach more ...
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• ZYDECO HELLRAISERS

  
  "El Milagro Weblog" — Authority: 107
  What happens to Attention Deficit Disorder when it grows up? Sometimes it is channeled into extraordinary gifts. So Michael Phelps Picasso JFK James Carville Robin Williams… …are all reputed ADHD guys. This is hardly an exhaustive list but it’s enough to give you a flavor. I think if they named every ...
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• Fascinating Interview With Stanislas Dehaene and the neuroscience of reading

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 131
  On the shapes of letters: In the case of reading, the shapes of our writing systems have evolved towards a progressive simplification while remaining compatible with the visual coding scheme that is present in all primate brains. A fascinating discovery, made by the American researcher Marc Changizi, is that all of ...
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• Learning Disabilites --The Myth of “Waiting to Fail”

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 131
  The Myth of “Waiting to Fail” « UVA Reading – Richmond . How many times have we heard, “just give it some time, he/she will catch up”; or “there is not enough of a discrepancy between potential and achievement, so they won’t qualify for anything”; or how about this one, “we don’t really do ...
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• Asperger’s Syndrome: Gumby and Wolverine

  
  Heart of the Matter Online — Authority: 547
  Asperger’s Syndrome: a body like Gumby with a mind like Wolverine’s core being Our son has always had a body he could do weird things with. He pops his jaw in and out of socket. He manipulates his fingers in a way that cracks and pops like wood on a fire. His neck twitches in a way that I sometimes wonder if he ...
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• Intel Makes Leap in Device to Aid Impaired Readers

  
  Personal Technology — Authority: 569
  Despite all of the advances in digital technology, too few high-tech products have emerged to help the blind read books or other paper documents, or to make reading such texts easier for people with impaired vision or language-related learning disabilities. A few years back, a breakthrough was made with ...
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• Learning disabilities dont exist

  
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  Last week I went to a talk about dyslexia and this time I sat straight in my chair because I knew what the person was talking about and it all made perfect sense to me. He said that learning disabilities dont exist and eventhough I think he didnt cover the whole picture, what he said was right and part of the puzzle. ...
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• Susan Boyle says she was bullied and beaten at school

  
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  Washington, November 18 (ANI): Britain’s Got Talent sensation Susan Boyle has revealed she was beaten and bullied while growing up over her learning disabilities.The Scottish songbird, who shot to international fame earlier this year after performing a jaw-dropping rendition of audition song “I Dreamed a Dream” ...
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• Traumatic Brain Injury — Are You a Champion?

  
  Second Chance to Live — Authority: 123
  Hello and welcome back to Second Chance to Live my friend. I am happy to see that you decided to stop by to visit with me. Over the past several days I have been thinking about life in general. With my reflection I thought about a reality. It is not so much what has happened to me that matters, but what matters most ...
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• The Students Learning Disability

  
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  No one ever said school was a breeze. Almost all of us experience different challenges at school, but some have mental and physical limitations that make coping more difficult. These are called learning disabilities. Learning disabilities interfere and affect our ability as a students to read, write and speak, or ...
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• Auditory Processing and Difficulties in Learning to Read

  
  I Speak of Dreams — Authority: 131
  Normal speech is "a river of sound".  The smallest unit of speech is the phoneme -- the molecule of water in the river. English has somewhere around 44 phonemes (experts differ, especially in regards to dialects). Most native speakers can produce and understand ten to fifteen phonemes persecond in a normal speech ...
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• Traumatic Brain Injury, Fatigue, Anxiety, Anguish and Depression Part 3

  
  Second Chance to Live — Authority: 123
  Please read Part 1 and Part 2 for context. Thank you. I discovered that I could stop persecuting myself because of my susceptibility to becoming fatigued I discovered that I could take steps to address my anxiety and anguish. I discovered that I could embrace the reality that I am susceptible to becoming ...
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• Intel Reader turns street signs into spoken words

  
  Innovation Toronto — Authority: 436
  Many of us take our ability to read signs, books, magazines, menus and instruction manuals for granted, but for an estimated 55 million people in the U.S. alone who have to contend with vision impairment, dyslexia or other specific learning disabilities , connecting with the world through text is not so simple. ...
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