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• BBC Radio 5 lets Scott Quinnell plug Dore, uncritically

  
  Holford Watch: Patrick Holford, nutritionism and bad science — Authority: 103
  BBC Radio 5 Live had Scott Quinnell on the 6/11/09 breakfast show*, for Dyslexia Awareness Week. Unfortunately, his conversation with on the breakfast show gave him an opportunity to plug Dore unchallenged. We have a number of concerns about this radio segment:Quinnell is allowed to state that by ...
  7 hours ago

• Odds and Ends

  
  Literacy Learning — Authority: 108
  This has been a very busy week or two, and here it is Friday and I find that I have left some promises (to keep). Last week I spoke to English language educators in Oregon about vocabulary. English learners benefit more from vocabulary instruction more than do native speakers (and it helps us too), and given the role ...
  2 days ago

• The Roller Coaster

  
  Knowledge House Academy — Authority: 130
  Isnt that always how life works? Were all on a perpetual roller coaster constantly twisting, turning, climbing & falling. Some days are good. Some days arent. With "Nemo" starting school this week, hes come home declaring his love for school & hes also come home declaring his disdain for school. ...
  2 days ago

• The ‘Connectivity’ Link between Autism and Dyslexia

  
  Left Brain/Right Brain — Authority: 127
  by Emily L. Williams In an article currently in press in The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders , University of Louisville researcher, Dr. Manuel Casanova, provides tantalizing evidence supporting his theory of altered neural connectivity in dyslexia. Casanova proposes that the underlying deficits ...
  4 days ago

• Swedish head teacher claims anorexia and dyslexia not real

  
  IceNews - Daily News — Authority: 556
  Disabilities rights advocates and health workers alike have been angered by a southern Swedish school principal who claims that anorexia and dyslexia are fabricated diseases. Sundsgymnasiet High School Principal Gert Akesson, writing in the Spegeln newspaper from Malmo’s Staffanstorp suburb, says that media ...
  4 days ago

• What does my brain want?

  
  SOUTH CITY MUSINGS — Authority: 127
  So I had this dream 4 nights ago now that will not get out of my head and I think my brain is trying to tell me something. It is brief: Our parish sold our school building (wishful thinking there) and the new owners tore it down. The parish had a meeting in the basement of the church to discuss how to handle this ...
  5 days ago

• How to Deal With Dyslexia

  
  Through The Illusion — Authority: 418
  Dyslexia is a word I can almost never type correctly the first time.  (Dyselxia!) It’s also the thing I didn’t realize I had until college! What is dyslexia? Dyslexia is a learning disorder that “manifests itself primarily as a difficulty with reading and spelling”.  Scientists believe that it is a ...
  6 days ago

• Dissertation dish: WJ III/KABC-II Gv and ach AND Gs, RAN, Ga, work mem and reading

  
  Intelligent Insights on Intelligence Theories and Tests (aka IQ's Corner) — Authority: 128
  Visual-spatial thinking and academic achievement: A concurrent and predictive validity study by Yazzie, Anslem, Ph.D., Northern Arizona University, 2009 , 92 pages; AAT 3370650 Abstract Forty-eight students were administered the Spatial Relations and Picture Recognition subtests of Woodcock-Johnson III ...
  6 days ago

• Dyslexia Awareness Week

  
  DyslexicDev (Martin Hinshelwood's Blog) — Authority: 110
  Its "Dyslexia Awareness Week" here in the UK, and as a person that benefits from being a Dyslexic developer , I thought I should highlight the specific strengths to programmers of being dyslexic... All of the benefits are due to a neurological difference that presents as a larger right-hemisphere in the brain and ...
  6 days ago

• Dyslexics: Coping with Their Learning Difficulties

  
  HealthMad — Authority: 489
  Understanding Dyslexia In 1896, W. Pringle Morgan, an English medical practitioner, provided the first description of dyslexia.  Prior to that, the disorder was thought to be a form of mental retardation.  Published in the British Medical Journal was Morgan’s case of a 14-year old boy who had extreme difficulty ...
  1 week ago

• Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Wide Range Of Disorders

  
  Healthy Living Times — Authority: 138
  Autism spectrum disorder is basically a wide range of behavioral and developmental disorders that results from a combination of certain traits. The disorder will range from low functioning autism to high functioning autism to normal behavior and to possibly hyper socialization. An autism spectrum disorder is ...
  1 week ago

• Omega 3 And Brain Development – Does It Really Help?

  
  Health 2 u — Authority: 130
  Omega 3 and Brain Use it or lose it. This is what experts say about our brain. The more we use it and keep it active, the better it will perform and will remain healthy. But did you know there is something else too that is very effective at ensuring your brain’s health and well being? Omega 3 and brain health are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dyslexia

  
  Nether Region of the Earth II — Authority: 140
  Can be a problem . [IMG: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_KgIqQvYUs3I/SuAr5Eng_bI/AAAAAAAATac/gOkedgHNlP0/s400/love-santa.jpg]
  2 weeks ago

• Readin’, Writin’ and….Meditation??

  
  Topsy-Techie — Authority: 116
  As always, in a perfect ironic twist, I blog far less when I am teaching the Blog Writing Course .  Time is simply at a premium, I guess – - especially with 18 new bloggers to keep track of! But the course is going well…even Uber is taking it this go-round! He is having SO much fun with this unschooling ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dyslexia is cool

  
  SOUTH CITY MUSINGS — Authority: 127
  Thats pretty much what the tester said today. She was looking at Sophias writing sample that Miss Anne handed me to take along. Sophia was in the waiting room with Maeve--turns out I didnt even have to bring her this time, which sucked, but our appointment Wednesday is involved and detailed and I have a placement ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dyslexia Test

  
  Home Fitness Body — Authority: 125
  Diagnosis is an important step for any illness, disease or condition. In some cases, a diagnosis can shed some insight into the areas requiring medical treatment. Surgeries or drugs may be prescribed to essentially cure a person. In other cases, the diagnosis may simply help people understand what they’re up against ...
  3 weeks ago

• Electrophysiological indices of spatial attention during global/local processing in good and poor phonological decoders

  
  COMD News — Authority: 451
  Previous research suggests a relationship between spatial attention and phonological decoding in developmental dyslexia. The aim of this study was to examine differences between good and poor phonological decoders in the allocation of spatial attention to global and local levels of hierarchical stimuli. A further aim ...
  3 weeks ago

• Scientists Locate Literacy In The Brain With The Help Fof Former Colombian Guerrillas

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 743
  A unique study of former guerrillas in Colombia has helped scientists redefine their understanding of the key regions of the brain involved in literacy. The study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, has enabled the researchers to see how brain structure changed after ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Design

  
  Sabrina Dent: Pixel Pushing Ireland — Authority: 456
  My mother will, at the drop of a hat, tell you the story of how as a child, I very nearly didn’t get into my competitive fee-paying primary school because I stubbornly refused to put the blue peg in the red hole during what passes as an interview for three year olds. While my mother likes to see this as a testimony ...
  3 weeks ago

• You May Discover You Have Adult Dyslexia.

  
  Becoming Who You Want To Be — Authority: 151
  Adult dyslexia is a condition that is now known and one of the first steps in getting the proper treatment is to get a proper diagnosis. You must have a comprehensive adult dyslexia test to know if you are dyslexic. Post Excerpt from: BecomingWhoYouWantToBe . Click "read article" to see complete version. Looking for ...
  3 weeks ago

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