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Use proven remedies at schools - Letters to the Editor

Edit The Dallas Morning News 04 Jun 2016
Re. “Let’s get hooked on phonics again,” by Jan Neher, May 28 Letters. Our daughter Toni was found to have a mild level of dyslexia in 1984 in the second grade. Coppell ISD taught her phonics ... Gary McClish, Carrollton ... ....

‘Vibrant with illustrious family background’

Edit Indian Express 03 Jun 2016
Madhavi Kapur (August 1960-June 2016). I WAS overwhelmed with grief when I heard that my dear friend Madhavi Kapur was no more ... Madhavi and I became close when I was writing one of my books ... Share This Article. Related Article ... ‘In her death, we celebrate her freedom’City-based writer Rita Shahani dies Kitchen EncountersaLost,Mumbai woman finds her ‘self’ in Surat4 of family,driver die as truck hits carSpotting dyslexia ... 6, slideMargin ... ....

The FCC's Modernized Comment System Is Coming Soon (FCC - Federal Communications Commission)

Edit Public Technologies 03 Jun 2016
(Source. FCC - Federal Communications Commission) ... Public comments play an essential role in the Commission's work ... Then and Now. To understand the significance of this update, it helps to provide some context ... The new ECFS includes a combination of embedded tools providing the latest in web accessibility technology, including text-to-speech functionality, fonts for dyslexia and color blindness, and a beta voice navigation experience....

Help needed

Edit The Economist 02 Jun 2016
No assistants required then. BY MOST measures, English schools are good, if not top of the class ... Assistants provide support to children most in need of help, often those with conditions such as dyslexia or ADHD ... ....

Woman graduates from college where she was left as a newborn

Edit The Miami Herald 02 Jun 2016
More than 30 years after she was abandoned as a newborn in a dorm at San Francisco State University, Jillian Sobol has graduated from the school where she began her life. Sobol, 31, graduated with a bachelor’s degree on Friday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported ... 5, 1984 ... “Did you know there’s a baby in a box in here?” the newspaper reports he said at the time ... She had dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities....

Counsellors identify slow learners, learning disorders in Chandigarh schools

Edit Indian Express 02 Jun 2016
COUNSELLORS IN several city schools have started identifying slow learners, students with autism and learning disorders such as dyslexia, dysgrapahia and dyscalculia in the pre-primary to primary classes to help them develop better ... The methods, however, may differ for each child. “Identification generally starts young. For a condition such as autism, more than academic performance, behaviour needs to be assessed....

Inkshares writer Stephen Carignan talks about his book’s campaign

Edit The Examiner 02 Jun 2016
Inkshares, the online publishing company, continues to share intriguing new stories from talented new writers. One such writer submitted the idea for his work to the first Nerdist contest Inkshares hosted in 2015 and, unfortunately, did not make it to the leaderboard ... Stephen Carignan is now, once again, campaigning his story The Sleeping Man for future publication ... He began to write at a young age as a way to combat dyslexia and ADHD....

Funding Opportunities (America's Promise Alliance)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
(Source. America's Promise Alliance). The following grants and funding opportunities are currently accepting applicants ... Mazda Foundation Education Grant ... Previous grants were awarded for a book club at an elementary school, a dyslexia tutoring program, a family literacy night event, and a program that enlists trained volunteers to provide instruction to first and second grade children who need extra help learning to read and write ... None....

LearningRx Reviews Complaints From Parents of Students With Dyslexia or Reading Struggles

Edit PR Newswire 01 Jun 2016
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., June 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A 2016 survey of 109 parents whose children had been previously diagnosed with dyslexia and later completed a LearningRx (www.LearningRx.com) personal brain training program, found that many of their pre-training complaints ... ....

Advocates push for bill to mandate dyslexia screening, intervention in R.I. schools

Edit The Providence Journal 01 Jun 2016
Many schools are afraid to use the "D" word, perhaps because they worry a diagnosis will trigger costly services, a Cranston parent says ... ....

Woman graduates from college where she was left as a baby

Edit The Miami Herald 01 Jun 2016
5, 1984. The baby was discovered — and rescued — by students there ... She had dyslexia, attention deficit disorder and learning disabilities ... ....

“Jurassic Park” paleontologist retiring from museum he built

Edit Denver Post 01 Jun 2016
Michael Crichton based the character Alan Grant on Horner in the 1990 book “Jurassic Park,” and Steven Spielberg brought Horner on as a technical adviser on all of the “Jurassic Park” movies — and Horner did it without a college degree and with dyslexia ... His struggles with dyslexia caused him to flunk out of college multiple times and initially ......

‘Hearts and minds’ of settled people vital to press Traveller ethnicity

Edit The Irish Times 01 Jun 2016
The hearts and minds of the settled population must be won over before Traveller ethnicity can be recognised, the Minister of State for Equality has said ... “So it seems . ... “What I want to do today is seek your advice and . ... He asked would it be appropriate for women to have to ask men for the right to vote ... TJ Hogan (21) from Cork, has overcome dyslexia and been written off in school as “the one put at the back of the class” ...  . ....
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