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+ Orton-Gillingham Academy Conference April 23-24
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other topics: click a “category” or use search box Save the dates. The Academy of Orton-Gillingham Practitioners and Educators (AOGPE) will hold its annual conference in Toronto, Canada , on April 23 and 24th, 2010. Keynote speakers will be Steve Wilkins : “ The Reading Teacher’s Guide to the Brain ...9 hours ago -
Learning disability: maybe or maybe not
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This week ‘an official evaluator’ informed me that my daughter Eva could have a learning disability related to her auditory processes and possibly including language. She then added that perhaps Eva doesn’t have a learning disability. Maybe she’s too young and we need more tests to figure out what’s going ...19 hours ago -
A Dyslexic Blogger- Believe It or Not
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When my publicist first contacted me, saying that Psychology Today wanted me to write a blog for them, I was flattered and excited. Here is one of the top publications in the world for psychology, with 75,000 visitors to the site per day and 4 million page views a month, asking me to share information to help people ...1 day ago -
Speech Perception Abilities of Adults With Dyslexia: Is There Any Evidence for a True Deficit?
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Conclusions: The small number of group differences, and lack of consistent poor individual performance, suggests weak support for a speech perception deficit in dyslexia. It seems likely that at least some poor performances are attributable to nonsensory factors like attention. It may also be that some individuals ...2 days ago -
Dyslexia, a deficit or a difference: Comparing the creativity and memory skills of dyslexic and nondyslexic students in Iran
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Positive and negative aspects of dyslexia were explored within the Iranian context. Dyslexia can be considered either as a deficit or merely as a difference. In this study 26 dyslexic primary-school students in Tehran were matched with 26 nondyslexics. The Shirazi and Nilipur (2004) Diagnostic Reading Test was ...5 days ago -
Blessed Disabilities
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My daughter started her sophomore year of homeschooling before we finally learned why school was so difficult for her . We walked out of the third floor office of the learning specialist and neither of us spoke. Instead, we each attempted to absorb what the doctor just presented in ...6 days ago -
Hands-On Learning
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It seems like such a simple concept. As babies, our children learned everything by touch. They picked things up, put it in their mouths, and rubbed it against their skins. Even board books came with plush and other materials to encourage children to feel and learn. As our children grew older, they learned by their ...6 days ago -
Jake and The Stubborn Pencil – a Story for Children
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Jake’s teacher called him a walking encyclopedia. Jake knew everything there was to know about dragons and dinosaurs, volcanoes and venomous snakes, even constellations and computers. “Ask Jake!” his classmates chorused whenever anyone needed the answer to a question. But Jake had a problem. He could add ...1 week ago -
+ Web Sites for RTI (Response to Intervention) Resources
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other topics: click a “category” or use search box From an article in Perspectives, the IDA quarterly, here are helpful Websites that have reviewed and sythesized information about evidence-based programs for RTI: The Center on Instruction – http://www.centeroninstruction.org/ The Florida Center for ...1 week ago -
Dyslexia Screening Implemented In Schools
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There are many different theories of dyslexia, which is probably why there are so many different dyslexia screening tests available. Evolutionary theorists argue that all this reading promoted by Western societies is “unnatural” and has not fully developed yet. Some people say that adults with dyslexia have a ...1 week ago -
Dyslexia Among Adults Is Real
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Since the eighties, psychologists have been interested in the adult learning theory, which posits that adults do not learn the same as children. For instance, children come to class knowing very little and open to anything, so long as it’s interesting, fun and motivating. On the other hand, adults arrive with so ...1 week ago -
Many Dyslexia Sufferers Are Older People
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It’s a common misconception that dyslexic adults only mix up letters (like “b” and “d”), misspell words or have trouble reading words forward (confusing “saw” for “was,” for instance). These are two possible dyslexia signs to look out for, but there are many more general symptoms that affect greater ...1 week ago -
What in the world am I doing, Im dyslexic
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Blogging, its about writing. Blogging is the web 2.0 phenomenon that has taken over the internet. Every Tom, Dick and Jane is blogging now. For a while I had thought that you needed to be an author or a journalist in order to be a blogger. I had thought that one needed some form of writing skills in order to blog. ...1 week ago -
+ Proposed Dyslexia Bill for Ohio
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other topics: click a “category” or use search box Here are the goals and reasons for the bill. Learn the facts, and use them to talk your Ohio legislators and friends. If you have, or know, a child whose needs are not being met, you know why this bill is necessary. Our legislators are not yet ...1 week ago -
Coaching Your Dyslexic Child Book
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World Leading Athority on Dyslexia Releases Latest Dyslexia Book. Coaching Your Dyslexic Child – A Step by Step Guide. As kid, growing up with dyslexia, it proved challenging. My teachers just assigned me a seat in the back of the room – or kept me after class to scold, or occasionally give further help to that ...1 week ago -
Graduate ~ Celebrate
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As many of you know, my second son Joseph graduates from our homeschool this year. Is he spelling like I wanted him to? No. But I know that learning does not stop just because someone hands you a diploma. Spelling well is going to be a personal challenge for him his whole life. It’s a challenge [...]1 week ago -
Recommended Reading for November 23
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There was no recommended reading on Friday because I forgot I hadn’t done one for the day after the Carnival. Oops! Changing the Perception of Braille I recently watched a Ted talk that focuses on the idea that how we feel about something is totally based on our perception. It seems to me that in ore for us to ...1 week ago -
Overcoming the Challenges of Dyslexia in Children
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Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that impairs hand skills, short term memory and perception. Dyslexia children have difficulty remembering numbers or what the teacher was saying just a few minutes ago. The problem also involves difficulty placing things in their right order. A sufferer will have a problem placing the ...1 week ago -
Coaching Your Dyslexic Child Book
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World Leading Athority on Dyslexia Releases Latest Dyslexia Book. Coaching Your Dyslexic Child - A Step by Step Guide.2 weeks ago -
Intel Reader Innovates Text to Voice
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Introduced on November 10 , the Intel Reader is inspiring many people to learn more about what exacetly the device does, how it works and what’s inside. In short, the Intel Reader is a mobile device that can help increase independence for people who have challenges reading printed text, including people living ...2 weeks ago
