Prophecy Fellowship Forums (Free subscription) | yesterday
Have you ever said something, and it comes out backwards'? I don't know if it's a form of dyslexia or what, but I seem to do this often! Tonight, I went into my daughter's room, and said "You just seem as happy as a clam!" Then I said, "Hams are clappy, you know!" :doh It sounded right until I...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Dyslexia can make reading frustrating for children, but new research says it might be due to a problem with how the brain "hears" sounds. Now, scientists are using sound training to help children overcome the condition.
Jurgen Nation . Com (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Oh Internets, I’m going to be straight with you: I don’t feel like trying today. I don’t feel like writing. I want to, as I think I have enough to sort out, but the act of sitting here looking at the cursor looking at me, challenging me, calling me doughy, seems like too [...]
7dollarbooks.com (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Tips and tricks for people with adult dyslexia is a comprehensive guide covering the basics of dyslexia to a wide range of diagnostic procedures and tips to help you manage with your symptoms. These techniques have been used on people with dyslexia of every varying degree and with great success.
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 23/06/2008
Former BEVERLY HILLS, 90210 star IAN ZIERING has spoken out about his struggles with dyslexia during his youth, in an effort to help kids suffering from the condition. The actor, 44, admits he used humour as a way to deflect attention away from his reading and writing difficulties when he was at school. He tells People.com, "My [...]
Irish Blogs (Free subscription) | 17/06/2008
noagebranding.com has signed up more than 1500 supporters. (1541 to be pedantic) > A short Harry Potter prequel was sold for €31,588 on Tuesday in aid of Dyslexia Action and English PEN. (Irish Times) You can read JK Rowling’s story as well as shorts from Lauren Child, Neil Gaiman, Doris Lessing, Irvine Welsh, Michael Rosen, Tom Stoppard, Richard Ford, Nick Hornby Margaret Atwood and more, handwriting...
France24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
An 800-word Harry Potter prequel written by JK Rowling has fetched 31,600 euros at a charity auction in England. The proceeds will go to two institutions, one that promotes freedom to write around the world and the other called Dyslexia Action.
ArticlePower.org (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Most teachers of 5 and 6-year-old children will tell you how baffled they can be by this phenomenon.
CNN (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
An 800-word prequel to the blockbuster Harry Potter novel series fetched nearly $50,000 Tuesday for a writer's group and dyslexia charity.
lalate news (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
The 800 word hand written Prequel to Harry Porter book by J.K. Rowling, first profiled here on LALATE, has sold for $49,000 at a charity auction moments ago. The charity auction benefitted “English PEN” and Dyslexia Action. The book today sold for 25,000 pounds, far less than a similar auction in December that nabbed an enormous [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
More children suffer from an innate condition that renders them incapable of understanding arithmetic and numbers than those who suffer dyslexia or "word blindness", according to a study of 1,500 school pupils.
subject (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Open Question: Will you attend this event? Our local college is hosting a debate tomorrow night. It is being run by the Agnostic Dyslexia Society in the college and the subject is " IS THERE REALLY A DOG" uziell Good grief man! It is only a joke, where did you lose your brain'??????? Array Open Question: Why didn't yahoo deleted these questions when they are direct violation of FCC RULES? Yahoo please...
Houston Chronicle (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
A recent Bollywood movie about an 8-year-old boy has planted the seeds of a movement to raise public awareness about dyslexia in India.
Five Live Breakfast (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
If you struggle to tell the time, count your change or balance your bank account - could you have the mathematical equivalent of dyslexia? According to a new study, dyscalculia is more common than dyslexia. People with the condition have...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Benjamin Bolger admittedly can't read well, but the 32-year-old Michigan native today is expected to walk across the stage at Harvard University to receive a doctoral degree in design -- his 11th advanced degree.
