Teachers Need Greater Awareness Of Language Disorders TRUDIE STYLER TO OPEN UP ABOUT LEARNING DIFFICULTIES Kauffman Foundation CEO Schramm appears in dyslexia documentary 5 Celebrities with Dyslexia The ‘Heartbreak’ of Hyperlexia Zumasys Congratulates Prentice School on 25th Anniversary Great News for Parents Children Struggling to Read Lexercise Introduces the First and Only ResearchBased Free Online Screening Test Processing And Decoding Issues Now Seen As Key To Learning Disabilities Brain Against Words In Mirror Conn. governor opens up about lifelong struggles calls writing almost impossible VIDEO Shake It Up Stars Share How Show Emulates Their Real Life Tom Cruise Trivia Quiz Questions Neuroimaging helps predict which dyslexics will learn read Imagi

Greater awareness of 'specific language impairment' (SLI), a language disorder, is needed to ensure better outcomes for the 3-6 per cent of UK school children affected by this disability. Children with SLI have difficulties with most or all aspects of language including grammar, vocabulary and literacy as well as with short term memory. According to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), they also have problems with higher order thinking skills. SLI may have a greater impact on these children than the better know disorder, dyslexia... Producer and filmmaker Trudie Styler will speak publicly for the first time about her struggles with dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (Adhd) at a lecture in New York on Tuesday (17May11).Rocker Sting's wife will be the guest... Kauffman Foundation CEO Schramm appears in dyslexia documentary Many famous people, geniuses even, have suffered from this learning disability. Contributor: Elizabeth Whitman Published: May 05, 2011 Tom Scocca at Slate has an post examining Tina Brown's gift for stoking the ever-flickering terrors behind Rich People Problems: Parents of small children! Is your preschooler able to read and write already? If you just nodded "yes," with a little flicker of pride and satisfaction--well, Tina Brown's Newsweek has a revelation for you. The [...] IRVINE, Calif., April 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Zumasys announced today the results of a multi-year technology partnership and cloud computing agreement with The Prentice School, a non-profit, independent day school for students with Dyslexia based in Tustin, California. In preparation for Prentice's SAN FRANCISCO, April 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Lexercise, a company that provides professionally-managed, online dyslexia treatment, today introduced a free online test, The Lexercise Screener, that allows parents or clinicians to screen children ages six and up for dyslexia, no matter where they live A technical report entitled, "Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision," published in the March 2011 issue of Pediatrics by the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and the American Association for Certified Orthoptists, emphasizes that language processing and decoding issues are the cause of primary learning disabilities, not physical eye problems... Human beings understand words reflected in a mirror without thinking about it, just like those written normally, at least for a few instants. Researchers from the Basque Centre on Cognition, Brain and Languages (Spain) have shown this in a study that could also help to increase our understanding of the phenomenon of dyslexia... GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) -- Doctors called him spastic. Teachers said he was mentally retarded. Some of his nastier classmates called him dummy.... Although Shake It Up's CeCe Jones struggles with Dyslexia, fans may not realize the actress who plays her has the learning disability as well. Tom Cruise's original ambition in life was to be a priest and he attended the Franciscan seminary in pursuit of this ambition. He is right handed when writing but does most things left handed. He suffers from dyslexia. Contributor: W. Smith Published: Jan 27, 2011 Researchers have used sophisticated brain imaging to predict with 90 percent accuracy which teenagers with dyslexia would improve their reading skills over time. Brain scans of adolescents with dyslexia can be used to predict the future improvement of their reading skills with an accuracy rate of up to 90 percent, new research indicates. Advanced analyses of the brain activity images are significantly more accurate in driving predictions than standardized reading tests or any other measures of children's behavior. The finding raises the possibility that a test one day could be developed to predict which individuals with dyslexia would most likely benefit from specific treatments. The research was published Dec... Scientists have recently made headway in understanding what's going on in the brain of a person with dyslexia. Title: Brain Imaging May Predict Dyslexia Gains Category: Health News Created: 12/20/2010 8:05:00 PM Last Editorial Review: 12/21/2010
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