World
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October 2007
Newsletter
October 2007
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UK MP Backs Dyslexia Drive Dyslexia Workshop Trains Caribbean Teachers Tupelo Schools Committed to Dyslexia Training Italian Priest Gives Hope to Korea's Dyslexics
We're Doing Our Bit to Help the Dyslexic in Norwich, UK
Dyslexia: Complex Medical Condition or Myth? Walk Will Raise Funds for Dyslexic Children 10,000 Children in El Paso County Suffer From Dyslexia Through the Eyes of a Dyslexic Finding Children At Risk For Dyslexia Library Offers Technology to Help People with Disabilities |
Ten Years of Calming Dyslexia - Carolina's Key School marks a decade of success:
The school for first- through eighth-graders with dyslexia is marking ten years in operation. It plans to hold an anniversary celebration in the spring.
Student Backlash Against Untimed Tests - The practice of giving students with learning disabilities more time to take their tests has become so common at private schools in New York City and across the country that students say it carries nearly no stigma.
Disability rights activists describe the trend as an important victory for students with difficulties such as dyslexia and attention deficit disorder, but a small number of students are waging a battle against the accommodations.
Memory Formation and Developing Perseverance - Memory sharpness is often associated with age, so to speak. Yet age alone is not enough to significantly reduce a person's ability to remember unless some disorder that block processing pathways exists, like dyslexia and Alzheimer's. To maintain keen memory and focus, one has to develop perseverance in many aspects of his life as an individual. It is also important to believe that a person of advanced age can still have the effective memory formation system, particularly if there is a decision to enhance and develop perseverance in many other aspects of one's life. 
End of the Reading Wars -
Doctor Richard Cooper, who runs the Center for Alternative Learning in Pennsylvania,
told legislators at the state capital, it's up to the schools to develop new ways to help dyslexic students.
KIPCO Sponsors Kuwait Dyslexia Campaign -
the Kuwait Projects Company has announced its exclusive sponsorship of a major campaign to raise public awareness about dyslexia.
The campaign – which will include TV, cinema and press advertising – is being run in cooperation with the Kuwait Dyslexia Association. 
New Center for People With Dyslexia -
A new teaching centre for people with dyslexia has opened in Lewes, Sussex, UK.
The center offers specialist literacy and maths help for people who are dyslexic, adult support and exam skills for students at all levels of education, as well as an intervention programme for the early years.
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Richard Rogers: Transforming Public Places -
There is nothing of the star-architect about Rogers. He is an amiable open-hearted man who feels that the beauty of practicing architecture is that it is an inclusive experience.
He is dyslexic and didn't learn to read until he was 11 and so had a rotten early life. Dyslexia has, he thinks, made him more attentive to others: "If you can make it, then you're likely to get on with people." 
A New Pair of Glasases is All it Takes to Cure Meares-Irlen Syndrome -
Thousands of children struggling to read may have been wrongly diagnosed as having dyslexia when they may be suffering from a condition which can be corrected simply by wearing special glasses.
One orthoptics expert says as many as 15 per cent of the population may be suffering from Mearles-Irlen Syndrome, which makes it difficult to read black text on white paper.
Puzzle Maker -
puzzle creation tool for teachers and parents. Create and print customized word search, crossword puzzles using your own word lists.
Get Rid of Monitor Glare 