World of Dyslexia
Newsletter
August 2007
Newsletter
August 2007
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World of Dyslexia Newsletter August 2007 |
| Keanu Reeves | Dyslexia: Speaking and Listening Skills |
  Keanu Charles Reeves (born 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon) is is a Canadian citizen and an avid ice hockey player/fan who was his high school team's MVP. His first name literally means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian.
Despite his luck in Hollywood, Reeves has had a troubled private life that includes battling dyslexia, two life-threatening motorcycle accidents, the loss of his friend River Phoenix to drugs, and the death of his former girlfriend, who was killed in a car accident.Full Story |
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| Sounds Incredible | UK Government Launches Phonics Guide |
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Disabled Doctors and Medical Students Let Down -
In a new report the British BMA called on the General Medical Council to lead the way in promoting disability equality in the medical profession by working with other regulatory bodies, medical schools and employers.
A key part of this is championing access to medicine for disabled people and advocating improved organizational practices and policies including comprehensive monitoring and support for disabled doctors.
According to the DDA 'a person has a disability if he or she has a physical or mental impairment ... such as ... dyslexia'.
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Once upon a time, in a deprived part of Scotland, a plan was put into place to wipe out pupil illiteracy within a decade. Ten years on, it's worked!
It is mid-morning at St Mary's primary school in Alexandria, a bleak, post-industrial town north-west of Glasgow that often features on Scotland's list of areas of multiple deprivation. In Margaret Mooney's class, 20 five-year-olds have gathered on the floor at the teacher's feet, pretending to be trains. "Ch, ch, ch, ch, ch," they intone, small arms circling wildly like the wheels of a locomotive...
The UK government today renewed its commitment to phonics as it unveiled a new teaching programme aimed at the under-sevens.
The Letters and Sounds programme, which is available free to schools, has been developed by the Department for Education and Skills in conjunction with Jim Rose, a former schools inspector whose review of reading among young children last year recommended that schools adopt the phonics teaching method in class.
Interview With a Reading Coach - the Truth About Dyslexia- Experts say there are tens of millions of functional illiterates. What are the schools doing to our children? Kim Latta runs reading clinics named Exceeding Reading in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She wrote me a note about her experiences with dyslexic children; and I thought, "This is the perfect person to tell us what's going on in the reading wars. She's in the trenches every day." 
BDA International Conference 27-29 March 2008 - Call for papers - The British Dyslexia Association has announced the 7th BDA International Conference entitled 'Dyslexia: Making Links'. The conference will be chaired by Professor Margaret Snowling from the University of York, UK, and features top keynote speakers from around the world.
You are invited to make a submission to the conference online.
Puzzling Out Dyslexia -
After years of struggle, Emily Davies finally cracked the ranks of the Tiara Club.
"I love reading," said Emily, clutching her cache of books. It wasn't always the case. Four years ago, Emily could barely recognize letters in the alphabet despite three years in preschool and a year of kindergarten.
Talking to Chuck -
Perhaps no one on the globe has come to symbolize the rise of the investor class in America in recent decades more than Charles Schwab.
Creating wealth is what Mr. Schwab has come to regard as his "life's pursuit." Mr. Schwab's entrepreneurial success is all the more remarkable because he suffers from dyslexia.
Dyslexic Students Learn to Communicate with Cameras - Dyslexic students were learning to use cameras to communicate during a summer program at a school in eastern Kentucky. During the three-week program, students are given a one-time-use camera and told to photograph people in the community, one another and things that are important in their lives. Then they learn to write captions, and write a description of what they like about the photos they take.
Dyslexia - Learning to Learn -
Three years ago, the Baltimore-based Abell Foundation released a report stating that undiagnosed dyslexia is one of the biggest barriers to academic success for underserved public school students. The report documented the fact that children attending affluent public or private schools were far more likely to be diagnosed early and enrolled in programs specially designed to treat dyslexia.
UK Center Offers Hope for Dyslexia Sufferers -
People in Lancashire who have dyslexia will be thrown a lifeline when a new centre opens its doors in Preston.
The centre, run by Chorley-based Centra Education and Training, uses computers to train people who have difficulties with reading, writing or spelling.
Are You Being Bullied? -
Bullying has always been a problem. Since the dawn of time there have been pigtails pulled, kneecaps kicked and chairs pulled out from behind unfortunate kids. But today the problem seems to have escalated and as people become more free and easy in their ways of living, their bullying tactics become more severe.