The claims made by the creators of the app – which highlights parts of words to supposedly enhance users’ reading abilities – are dubious.
If teachers were to only address the skills, knowledge and referral protocols that Ontario’s Human Rights Commission recommends, students wouldn’t have essential knowledge to support their reading.
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Direct instruction matters in learning to read, but reading can’t happen unless children are supported in making connections to what they know and their experiences.
The cognitive difficulties that accompany mental health disorders can potentially lead to misdiagnoses and improper treatment.
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While only about 20% of people would qualify for a formal diagnosis of a mental disorder, more than 60% express symptoms of those disorders – and those symptoms can lead to cognitive difficulties.
It might seem like nostalgic escapism, but the show has a revisionist impulse at its heart.
Lack of access to quality reading instruction and early diagnoses and intervention of reading disorders can have significant, long-lasting effects.
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Early intervention with reading challenges has very high success rates for supporting reading development, but it is much more difficult to improve reading skills in older students.
Reading problem or problem with the lights?
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Based on the current body of evidence, the use of coloured filters should not be recommended as a dyslexia treatment, nor be provided through publicly funded bodies.
Signs of dyscalculia, also known as a math learning disability or math disorder, can be hard to spot.
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Finger counting and struggling to tell the time or use a calendar are all typical signs of dyscalculia – sometimes called ‘maths dyslexia’.
Parents may need to play the advocate for their child, especially if their child has a disability which affects their ability to communicate.
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Never underestimate a person with dyslexia - the skills and strategies they’ve developed to survive academia can be the right fit for effective communication.
Dyslexia affects up to 10% of the population, but until recently it was thought to be a pseudo-medical diagnosis used by parents to explain their children’s poor performance in reading.
Though challenges like dyslexia can make learning difficult, these disabilities shouldn’t define who you are – or what you can do.
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The story of a six-year-old boy with dyslexia who, with support from friends and teachers, became a successful professor. Now he teaches teachers how to help children like him.
It is time for you to rethink the concept of disability – because it is not a dirty word.
Our language abilities are enabled by a co-ordinated network of brain regions that have evolved to give humans a sophisticated ability to communicate.
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When you read this text, certain regions in your brain begin working more than others. Advanced imaging allows scientists to map the brain networks responsible for understanding language.