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• The Telegraph says Dyslexia is secret to Da Vinci and Picasso success (November 2010)  


• Dyslexics are a large proportion of entrepeneurs


• James Middleton, Kate's brother read beautifully despite his dyslexia
  
• Article from Health Day - Brain scans show dyslexics do not associate sound and pictures


• Dyslexic overcomes adversity and excels - Copyright 2011 Associated Press  
  
  
• Feauture on Davis Dyslexia Facilitator in Vancouver, Canada.
  

• Latest medical research suggests readers create vivid mental images when reading.
  Psychologists and neuroscientists are increasingly coming to the conclusion that when we read a story and really understand it, we create a mental simulation of the events described by the story," says Jeffrey M. Zacks, study co-author and director of the Dynamic Cognition Laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis.
  
  This supports our belief that picture-thinking is strongly involved in the reading process.
  Research article from medicalnewstoday.com
 
• ScienceDaily (Mar. 28, 2009) — A University of Pennsylvania psychology study, using functional magnetic resonance imaging technology to scan the brain, reveals that people who consider themselves visual learners, as opposed to verbal learners, have a tendency to convert linguistically presented information into a visual mental representation. Scientific evidence that visual learners convert words to pictures in the brain.
  Report from Science Daily
  
  
•  Davis Dyslexia treatment Daily telegraph article
  
• Report from Brisbane courier mail on the experience of one client on doing a Davis Dyselxia correction program.
  Couriermail story on Davis Dyslexia
  
  
• Neil MacKay's nine steps for turning a dyslexic pupil into a criminal. This list is presented in a sarcastic manner, to emphasise what teachers should NOT do with dyslexics.
  
  Report from Otago daily times, by John Lewis
  
  
• Can Attention skills be taught? This article by the Boston Globe suggests that attention/focus is skill that can be taught and that it should be.
  
  If you have good attentional control, you can do more than just pay attention to someone speaking at a lecture, you can control your cognitive processes, control your emotions, better articulate your actions," says Amir Raz, a cognitive neuroscientist at McGill University who is a leading attention researcher. "You can enjoy and gain an edge in life."
  
  Read more at:
  Boston Globe Article on Attention/Focus
  
  
• Neil MacKay’s mantra is “notice and adjust” – notice those children who are getting stuck and make reasonable adjustments in the way they are taught and assessed, including personalised learning and alternative evidence of achievement. Personalised learning includes strategies based on developing comprehension through use of context, syntax and grammar, and looking at areas such as organisation of ideas, planning skills, learning to remember, raising self esteem and valuing emotional intelligence.
  
  Mr MacKay recommends those things that are features of any Davis Dyslexia Program.
  Feature on Neil MacKay from Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand
  
  

• Kerry Packer - Australian Dyslexic
  
  Kerry Packer was a very successful business man, we believe probably as a result of his dyslexic abilities. Dyslexics tend to have a talent for being innovative and creative. Kerry Packer surely was. (Read more about Kerry Packer at:)
  http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1538281.htm
  
  

• Is Dyslexia a Gift? (myomancy.com)
  
  So is dyslexia a gift? Does it make you more creative and smarter? Ron Davis in his book The Gift of Dyslexia certainly thinks so as do many dyslexics. Certainly there is anecdotal evidence which is reinforced by web sites like the International Institute of Dyslexia: “[Adult dyslexics are] often spatially talented; professions include, but are not limited, to engineers, architects, designers, artists and craftspeople, mathematicians, physicists, physicians (esp. surgeons and orthopedists), and dentists.“
  But what is the truth? Is this wishful thinking by parents who would rather dream their child will be great one day rather than tackling actual problems of dyslexia? (read on at:) http://www.myomancy.com/2005/09/is_dyslexia_a_g
  
  
• An inquiry into England's primary schools is to look at how children with dyslexia should be supported(BBC)
  
  

  An inquiry into what is taught in England's primary schools is to be widened to look at how children with dyslexia should be supported… He is now being asked to recommend the best way to identify and teach dyslexic children in school. Dyslexia charities say they want every school to have one teacher trained to identity and support dyslexic pupils. An inquiry into what is taught in England's primary schools is to be widened to look at how children with dyslexia should be supported. (Read on at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7387371.stm)
  

• Dyslexia - time to hear from the frontline - (Press Release: Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand)
  

  'New Zealand teachers will this week have the opportunity to have their say on dyslexia with a ground-breaking online survey being launched by the Dyslexia Foundation of New Zealand. The survey, a key component of this year’s Dyslexia Awareness Week June 16-22, is designed to benchmark for the first time New Zealand teachers’ attitudes to dyslexia and uncover what it’s really like in the classroom.'
  http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0805/S00039.htm
  

• Dyslexia in Ireland - The number of students requiring special help in the high school exams has dramtically increased.
  
  'Under the controversial exam clause, students with dyslexia can seek waivers in exams so that their spelling and grammar are not taken into account.' (Independent.ie)
  http://www.independent.ie/education/latest-news/dyslexia-does-not-always-spell-failure-1342130.html
  
  
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