Towards A Sociology of Dyslexia: Exploring Links between Dyslexia, Disability and Social Class
Dyslexia Tutor: News-Resources (Free subscription) | yesterday
other topics: click a “category” or use search box Here are the goals and reasons for the bill. Learn the facts, and use them to talk your Ohio legislators and friends. If you have, or know, a child whose needs are not being met, you know why this bill is necessary. Our legislators are not yet convinced. [...]
Eide Neurolearning Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
"We're not very good at the scholastic stuff, but we see other things that are different, and that's a big advantage." - Toby Cosgrove, M.D., CEO Cleveland Clinics From Leadership Powerhouse : "Cosgrove, an international legend in cardio thoracic surgery, holder of 18 patents, author of a book and 400 journal articles, and surgeon of more than 18,000 cases, is dyslexic. He had been a...
kitchen table math, the sequel (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
C's ACT PLAN scores came back. He's at the 96th percentile in reading, 79th in usage/mechanics. C. taught himself to read in Kindergarten. One day we were meeting with his Kindergarten teacher, being told that he was at risk for dyslexia because his handwriting was so bad (true: bad handwriting is a flag); two weeks later he was reading. On his own. By the end of the following summer he was years above...
Silicon Valley Watcher (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
The US government has awarded Benetech $100,000 to create the first versions of open content school books that can be more easily accessed by disabled people. The math and science textbooks are freely distributable under a Creative Commons license. The textbooks, which have been approved for California high school students, will be converted to accessible formats by Benetech's Bookshare ( http://www.bookshare.org...
crivens, jings and help ma blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Hullo ma wee blog, Or more properly 'I have a Dream' and perhaps a wee bit of dyslexia too What a night! I'm exhausted and not this time from insomnia. No, this time I'm exhausted because of a dream......... I'm in a group of several women and a man. We are in a bar high up in some kind of tower restaurant above a seaside town that I don't recognise and the group have been drinking. A lot it would...
Eide Neurolearning Blog (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Interesting study from Harvard found that a smaller corpus callosum (bundle that connects the right and left hemispheres), especially the posterior part was associated with higher levels of creativity on the Torrance Figural Creativity test. The latter test involves making pictures and stories from shapes or lines. Very interesting. Especially with evidence that dyslexics and children with ADHD have...
I Speak of Dreams (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Julian (Joe) Elliot of Durham University (UK) was at the center of a row in 2005 the UK when he claimed that "dyslexia is a myth", specifically: "Contrary to claims of ‘miracle cures’, there is no sound, widely-accepted body of...
YOUR NEW REALITY (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
If the makers of this fantastic little piece of fearmongery were going to be completely honest, they would have shown the true results of a 400 kilo polar bear smashing into pavement from a great height. That imagery would certainly be far more shocking : When I watched this vid, some of the old dyslexia kicked in for a second. I thought the web address was PlanetStupid.com, not PlaneStupid.com. I...
Purple Shaggy Cows (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
One of the things that occurs to me this morning as I wake into the grey silence and snuggle beneath my duvet for a few more minutes before the girls come rushing in with their enthusiasm for the day, is that I was so busy focusing yesterday on the post traumatic stress disorders of war and wanting peace that I completely ignored the other part of the article. 'Two days before shipping off to war,...
Screw Bronze! (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Trick Question: What is a downward Spiral? Trick Answer: that new FLAX seed drink at Starbuck – wow, talk about a system flush! Seriously…..beware! The other answer: Me and my health, so says the Linda Linda says that in my need for extra sleep, 5 hour naps, in slowed speech, in slowed thinking, that I’m going down. Except…except, we haven’t had time for all the ‘together’...
www.dotspotter.com (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Redhead Nicole overcame her shyness and fellow finalist Laura to become the first petite-cycle winner on "America's Next Top Model"! "This journey was incredibly hard," Nicole said after winning, adding: "I'm a dork and I'm 'America's Next Top Model!'" On the season finale, Nicole said she'd led a "sheltered" life that contributed to feelings of social awkwardness...
What Women Want (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
So the season has come to a close and it is a face off between Nicole and Laura… Who will it be??? The fierce yet weird fiery red head or the sweeter than candy southern bell? You know I’ve been rooting for Nicole since the first few episodes so you know where my heart is but at this point anything can happen. The girls did a CoverGirl commercial and both of them kind of struggled. Laura...
TV Squad (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Filed under: Other Reality Shows , OpEd , Episode Reviews (S13E11) I love how Tyra Banks creates revisionist history on America's Next Top Model . Not only does she denounce Adrianne Curry's name, she now is ignoring the fact that Eva, who was 5' 6.5" won Cycle Three against "normal" sized models. That's an accomplishment. This cycle's finale episode was less hectic than previous cycles...
Texas Kaos - Front Page (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Very sobering and bone chilling words from Mr. Frank Schaeffer. About Mr. Schaeffer: Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times best selling author. He is a survivor of both polio and an evangelical/fundamentalist childhood, an acclaimed writer who overcame severe dyslexia, a home-schooled and self-taught documentary movie director, a feature film director and producer of four low budget Hollywood features...
365 to 42 (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I write my blog posts on a word document and then copy and past them over to the Blogger page; I do this because with my dyslexia it helps to see the words in a familiar style and word also helps with the spelling and layout much better than Blogger. Each time I sit down to write a post I still feel intimidated by the blank page, even though the document now runs to 153 pages and 95,500 words, more...
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