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Mar 2, 2010 · Television Presenter Kristian Digby, who was found dead yesterday at his flat in east London, had battled with dyslexia. He presented a documentary on Britain's struggles with literacy, where he personally thanked his mother for helping him with his dyslexia throughout his childhood.
Feb 15, 2007 · PEOPLE often get Kristian Leontioués name wrong. ... éThe teachers just let me get on with it, I didnét get much help with the dyslexia. I left when I was 15, did work experience as a labourer ...
“Dyslexia is the reason I instinctively know how to help others through creative approaches” Without my dyslexia I wouldn't be where I am today - I often tell people that dyslexia was the best thing to have happened to me. Admittedly, dyslexia has caused me many difficulties. It's caused me to question my abilities and my self worth.
Dyslexia is something that affects approximately 10 – 15% of the world’s population, yet there is still a gap in our digital world that prevents those with additional needs from accessing information and services in a way that works best for them.
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- The Struggle For Recognition
- Psychological Diagnosis and Social Construct
- UK Dyslexia Archive
Between the wars, research on dyslexia drifted in the UK, but expanded in the US – coalescing around one figure, in particular. Samuel T. Orton [pictured above], a neuropathologist from the State University of Iowa, presented his first paper on word-blindness to the 1925 annual meeting of the American Neurological Association in Washington, DC. 'In...
The years following the opening of the Word Blind Centre in 1962 are key to dyslexia's later history. They marked not only the start of modern research on, and advocacy for, the condition – which would ultimately result in recognition by government and protection for people with dyslexia under legislation like the 2010 Equality Act – but also the r...
In some quarters, however, the dyslexia debate continues – principally educational psychology. The most notable recent criticism of the term is the 2014 book The Dyslexia Debate. This does not query 'whether biologically based reading difficulties exist (the answer is an unequivocal "yes"), but rather how we should best understand and address liter...
Dyslexia has a fascinating history, but it's a history that's yet to be charted and much could disappear. Many of the pioneers of dyslexia research, practice and advocacy are retired or retiring; some of the earliest to help children with the condition have now passed. The same is true of specialist organisations. Some of them, like the Word Blind ...
Overview. Dyslexia is a common learning difficulty that mainly causes problems with reading, writing and spelling. It's a specific learning difficulty, which means it causes problems with certain abilities used for learning, such as reading and writing. Unlike a learning disability, intelligence isn't affected.
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Get involved and help us raise awareness around dyslexia. ... The British Dyslexia Association is a registered charity in England and Wales (289243). Registered ...
