The article is a profile of Tiffany Albury, a second year English teacher at Harlingen High school who also overcame dyslexia. She wanted to be a teacher since she was young, and credits her sophomore English teacher Kathy Lofner for helping her take the steps she needed to in order to overcome her disability. She […]
School exam reviews was carried out by groups of people called watchdogs. The Watchdogs wanted to investigate the number of students in state and private schools that were given extra time to take tests. Some people believe that a student given extra time is unfair to the other students. However, the students that were given […]
Written by a chartered psychologist who specializes in neurological differences, this article discusses the impact of dyslexia in the workforce and common problems that may arise from it. The article also explains some of the difficulties of identifying dyslexia and describes some of the procedures that may help dyslexic employees overcome common complaints, such as […]
Sara is an elementary school teacher that discovers her daughter Grace, after spending several years and thousands of dollars on educational specialists, has dyslexia. Often people think that dyslexia is just simply switching letters and words around, but it is a learning disorder that can range from mild to profound. If it is not addressed, […]
This video depicts issues and reasoning on why many schools and teachers turn a blind eye to dyslexic children. The resources needed for testing and then schooling these children are not always readily available. A student with dyslexia speaks eloquently on the struggles to both discover children with this issue but also treat them.
The video presented is a part in a series of videos that address different questions and compares behavior between ADHD and Dyslexia. The key point is in the situations in which the behavior happens for the child. ADHD children may do this all the time as they do not realize it is a social problem. […]
This article is a summary referring to a study conducted by Biologists at UC San Diego about how our brains process movements and determine direction of those movements. They have deduced that the origin of motion signals to our brain occur in cells in the retina of our eyes. They suspect that looking further into […]
Though a serious problem, dyslexia is highly under diagnosed. Most schools don’t have a standard test to check for student’s ability to read, a fundamental skill not only in school, but in life. Schools are changing their standards and adding a test to check for this debilitating problem. Will the new program be successful?
Steve McCue, through the Dyslexia Pathways Community Interest Company, allows people with dyslexia and neuro different individuals access to free workshops that help them overcome the challenges they face. Steve’s goal is to try to shed a new light on dyslexia and has already run a successful workshop at the Lochgelly Centre.
This short ‘film’ is both fascinating and thought provoking. Both the dyslexic father and daughter give praise to the “Pebble Maths” course. The young daughter states her interest in Math went from “blah”, to “interesting and fun”. The father, 50 years of age, worked with the daughter and states he was surprised at the changes […]
