THE LATEST FROM DYSLEXIAHELP

Bella Thorne is a star on Disney Channel’s new show, Shake it Up. Both she and her portrayed character are learning to live with dyslexia.

If your student is struggling with reading, check out this resource; Effective Instruction for Adolescent Struggling Readers: Second Edition.

In an article entitled What are Classrooms Like for Students with Learning Disabilities?, Kate Garnett delves into common classroom practices that make it difficult for students with disabilities to learn, and how to avoid them.

Marilyn Nippold succinctly highlights the reasons that speech-language pathologists belong in the classroom working side by side with classroom teachers to assist children with language disorders.

The Yale Center for Dyslexia is a site that discusses breakthroughs in dyslexia research and offers encouragement to people with dyslexia.

In an inspiring video series, Emma Jefferies, an award winning researcher, designer, writer, educator, and filmmaker, tells her story of how she was able to fight back against her dyslexia.

With the new school year right around the corner, it’s important to remember that not all ingrained practices in schools will necessarily be beneficial for all; a prime example – assignment notebooks.

With the passing of the No Child Left Behind Act by George W. Bush in 2002, schools were faced with the challenge of testing students to show their academic progress.

Communication Strategies for All Classrooms: Focusing on English Language Learners and Students with Learning Disabilities offers teachers some suggestions to help them communicate most effectively with all students, especially those with auditory and language difficulties.

Alex Green proves to us that, when armed with the knowledge of how to battle the struggles of dyslexia, anything is possible – including being drafted to the Green Bay Packers!

According to recent findings released by the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain, and Languages (Spain), human beings have an amazing ability to mentally rotate words and letters reflected in a mirror during the early stages of visual processing, allowing for automatic understanding.

Ohio House Bill 157, authored by Certified Academic Language Therapist Rebecca Tolson with the support of the Northern Ohio Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, is an advocacy measure for children with dyslexia.

In an article published by The Wall Street Journal on June 20, British researchers claim to have identified a link between musical ability and reading comprehension.

Although dyslexics have often posited that their learning disability confers specific advantages, the number of professional athletes who credit dyslexia with their talents is growing.

As reported by The Wall Street Journal in its July 5 issue, emergent research in neuroscience and fMRI imaging suggests that dyslexics have an easier time learning pictorial languages—like Chinese and Japanese— than they do languages like English.

On July 18, inventor and dyslexic Tom Pellereau was named the winner of The Apprentice UK.

Diagnosed with dyslexia at age 14, Patricia Polacco is now a nationally renowned illustrator and author of several popular children’s books, including Thunder Cake, Bun Bun Button, and Just Plain Fancy.

At visual-literacy.org, you can familiarize yourself with numerous methods of visual representation via the Periodic Table of Visualization Methods (including real-life examples of a story template, learning map, and Venn diagram).

On June 21, researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Sweden discovered that DCDC2, one of the many genes linked to dyslexia, has a very unusual and previously unknown function: it regulates the cilia, or antenna-like projections, that cells use to communicate.

If you are living in West Michigan and looking for an online resource that provides information about dyslexia from a local professional, check out DyslexiaDx.com, a website established by clinical psychologist and dyslexic Dr. Michael Ryan to address the social and emotional impacts of dyslexia, ADHD, and other learning disabilities.