This article is about students who are suffering from dyslexia and how integrated features in Apple products. Technologies such as text-to-speech help users very much in comprehension of articles and websites. Dictation is another useful feature for people who have problems trying to spell what they want to type. Apple does not stop there as […]
The article revolves around the point that early intervention of common challenges faced by close to 20% of the American population such as dyslexia. Jack Hatch is an example of a youth who faced the obstacle of dyslexia and with the help and support of his family, was able to overcome this adversity and was […]
Dyslexia is much more than a learning disability. While the condition was identified in the late 1800s, the terminology and categorization took longer to evolve. Documenting the physicians that shaped the identification and evaluation of the disability, this article pinpoints how “word blindness” was first discovered. Looking at contributions from medical scholars such as Adolph […]
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 […]
