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The UK British Dyslexia Association has announced that it will launch a new guide and code of practice for employers this September. According to the organisation, the new guide will offer legal advice and guidance to bosses on how to support dyslexic staff,. The code will also cover issues relating to dyslexia and the Disability Discrimination Act and how to deal with discrimination issues around dyslexia.
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Italian scientists have produced a new test for the early diagnosis of developmental dyslexia. Through the recording and analysis of the electrical brain activity by an electroencephalogram (EEG), Italian experts have managed to estimate in which reading phase the delay occurs and which brain areas are activated anomalously compared to healthy contemporaries. The scientists studied 53 non-dyslexic children and 39 dyslexic children aged between eight and 13 years. A comparison of the two groups showed that in the children of the dyslexic group, the brain regions which are responsible for the letter-sound association of reading strategy, showed reduced activity compared to the control group.
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A UK chief inspector of police who was dyslexic and who was found by an employment tribunal to have been disadvantaged in comparison with his work colleagues in examinations for promotion, was disabled within the meaning of the UK Disability Discrimination Act 1995, a court has found.
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Dyslexia a Disability in UK Employment Law
TUC Reports on Dyslexia in the Workplace (UK)
Dyslexia at Work: the UK Law
BDA: Help in the Workplace

"I Think Your Son Has Dyslexia" - Our seven-year-old isn't good at reading. Her teacher told us at the end of last term that she is way behind the others in her class. Yet she seems to be clever at everything else. Over the summer, our daughter has been saying she is stupid and that she hates school. My husband wasn't good at reading in school, either, and tells her she has just got to get on with it. What can I do, as she is so negative at the moment? ...
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Click N'READ Phonics Helps Special Needs Children Learn to REad - online software program that teaches children four and older how to read on their own via a series of a hundred entertaining and interactive online lessons. The curriculum meets US guidelines under the No Child Left Behind Act and instills in children the critical blend of skills necessary for proficient reading, including letter identification, phonemic awareness, alphabetic principle, high frequency sight words, word blending, word families, word endings, storybook reading, and spelling..
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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.
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"Little Evidence Vision therapy Works" - Children's eyes are their windows on learning. When parents see their children struggling to learn in school they rightly seek out answers. They may stumble across something called vision therapy ... "The truth is, there's no clinical evidence showing that vision therapy works," said Dr. Skip Freedman, Executive Medical Director for AllMed Healthcare Management. Yet enthusiastic practitioners, including optometrists, often may make exaggerated claims and even suggest that vision therapy can remedy learning disabilities, including dyslexia.
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Hewlett-Packard - Hewlett Suffered Dyslexia
Contrary to popular notion Hewlett and Packard, the computer entrepreneurs, had their share of dissimlarities and disagreements. Also Hewlett was not a good student because he had a huge learning disability in dyslexia.
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IDA Case Supporting Parents' Rights
The International Dyslexia Association submitted an amici curiae brief last week supporting the position of the student in Board of Education of the City School District of the City of New York v. Tom F. on behalf of Gilbert F.  In this case the Supreme Court will determine if a child should be forced to "try" an inappropriate placement before the parents can remove the child to an appropriate placement and seek reimbursement. The decision has broad reaching implications for parents, school districts, and most importantly children who receive special education services.
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Dyslexia 'A Weakness in a Sea of Strengths'
President of the International Dyslexia Association. Emerson Dickman's message is that dyslexia "is a weakness in a sea of strengths ... The strengths are as important to find and address as the deficits," he said. "All too often we focus on the deficit and not the asset, and we really need to focus on that as well."
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New International Dyslexia Association Website - The IDA has launched a brand new website, with downloadable fact sheets and information, lists of branches, conference details, publications,etc., with a Members-Only section.
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British Dyslexia Association Launches Employers' Guide - A new code of practice to help employers support dyslexic staff was launched by the British Dyslexia Association in September. The code will give employers advice on supporting workers with dyslexia as well as guidance on policies and procedures relating to the UK Disability Discrimination Act.
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BBC Researching New Program on Dyslexia - Has your child tried any learning programs and you've been dissatified with the results? If so please email the British Dyslexia Association in confidence.
Contact suzannabrodie@hotmail.com
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Sensus Internet Browser - Free to download - talks to the user through its built-in speech synthesizer. Using the built-in speech synthesizer, the visually impaired user can read the contents of documents originating from the Internet. Furthermore, the user may use the synthesizer to read documents from the local disk. Finally, the speech synthesizer is used to convey addition useful information to the user relating to the Internet dialogue.
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Up to Two Million Britons Have Undiagnosed Dyslexia
Up to two million people in Britain have undiagnosed dyslexia and struggle to spell, read and write without knowing why, it has been claimed. Only 5.8 per cent of adults are aware they have dyslexia - a learning disability that makes it difficult to decode the written word - while the widely accepted figure for the actual rate is 10 per cent, say experts.
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