SpokenLayer, a new text-to-speech app that uses human voices, not just synthesized voices, to capture emotion:
http://gigaom.com/2012/05/21/like-an-audible-instapaper-spokenlayer-lets-you-listen-to-the-web/
Looking for tinted overlays for your computer monitor? How about reading rulers? Tinted writing paper? You might want to check out this store.
http://www.crossboweducation.com/monitor_overlays.htm
Article in Time magazine: Compared to Italian, Spanish, and similar languages, English spelling is dum.
Should the schools control each student’s budget for special education? Or should the parents have control over the budget? Parents in England may be given control over their children’s special education budget, and they may be given the power to choose the expert support that is right for their child. You can read the article here.
Who is in the best position to make these decisions for the students - the family or the schools?
“Why You Can’t Read When You’re Scared,” an article written exclusively for Dyslexic Kids by Dr. Phyllis Books, explains that when someone “feels different from others or is not learning the way they are, on an everyday basis he or she is working with a brain that continually overrides the ability to learn … because it’s operating from a place of fear and the need to survive.”
Read the full article here: http://dyslexickids.net/_Guest_blog_/Entries/2012/5/14_Why_you_cant_read_when_youre_scared.html
Left brain thinkers look for a direct path to their goal. They start at the beginning taking one step at a time until they arrive at a specific location. They are not concerned with their surroundings and they concentrate on staying on the path.
Dyslexics tend to be right-brained and their paths are quite different. They start at the end with the big picture. Their focus is not on just one path, but on the horizon and beyond. They see endless possibilities.
Dyslexics may appear to be lost in their own world, but in reality, dyslexics are extremely focused. Their focus just lies elsewhere.
I will grow stronger with each accomplishment, and even stronger with each setback.
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Are these statements true or false?
If a child can’t read by age 12, he never will.
Repeating a grade will help a dyslexic child.
Dysphoneidetic Dyslexia is the most severe form.
Dyslexics can’t learn phonics; they have to memorize words.
If a child doesn’t reverse letters or numbers, she doesn’t have dyslexia.
Find out the answers to these and more in this article:
“Myth Busters: Dyslexia”
http://www.readinghorizons.com/blog/post/2011/04/29/myths-about-dyslexia.aspx
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How many did you get right?
People with dyslexia tend to be right-brained, while the school system is designed for people who are left-brained.
While giftedness can mask dyslexia, dyslexia can hide a student’s strengths. The timing of an evaluation can mean the difference between a student being identified as gifted or disabled.
“If they struggle with reading, their verbal IQs really go down—20 or 30 points over a few years. There’s interaction between learning and the brain. The brain of a reading-disabled child who has not figured out how to read actually changes. If we do response to intervention first with these kids, we just assume they have a reading disability and they’re not gifted, and by the time we get to evaluate them, their verbal IQ has gone down. Then, when the student gets referred for an evaluation it isn’t the disability that’s missed; it’s the giftedness that’s missed.”
Read the full article here: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/05/08/30gifted.h31.html?tkn=WQVFsWWnjjjQMwVV8kc0UYJDf%2F5Txr8jDNfI&cmp=clp-edweek&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mrss
The May edition of the World of Dyslexia Newsletter is now available:
http://www.dyslexia-adults.com/56.html
What strategies and accommodations help you learn best? This article from the University of Michigan may help you answer that question:
http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/dyslexics/learn-about-dyslexia/getting-dyslexia-help/self-advocate-for-your-dyslexia
