IDA Ontario is a charity advocating for improved literacy. We train teachers, build dyslexia awareness, support families, and advocate for policy changes.
The British Dyslexia Association in 2010The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) is a United Kingdom charity that works toward a...Stewart, Judi
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Butwhile spelling can be a challenge for dyslexic children, they can adopt techniques that make it easier. ‘It’s not that dyslexic children can’t learn; they just learn in a different way,’ explains Kate Saunders, chief executive officer of theBritish Dyslexia Association. We take a look...
Structured Literacy is an umbrella approach coined by theInternational Dyslexia Association. Building on the empirical foundations established by the science of reading, Structured Literacy offers a sophisticated alternative to traditional methods like three cueing. This comprehensive framewo...
The Association Between Childhood Physical Abuse and Dyslexiadoi:doi:10.1177/0886260514540808The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between a history of dyslexia and childhood physical abuse in a large population-based epidemiological sample. It was hypothesized that the prevalence ...
Dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia (or DCD) and ADHD are all categorised as SpLDs within UK HEIs. However, in the DSM-5, dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia are grouped together under a single diagnostic category of “specific learning disorder” (SLD, or learning disorder),...
Some online material can be difficult to read because of the font used, and students with dyslexia, for example, take much longer than other students to plough through journal articles. All this can damage disabled students’ morale. As one of our interviewees commented: “With the ability to...
Dyslexia is caused by a different wiring of our brains. While it has no relationship to intelligence (Thomas Edison, Steven Spielberg, Pablo Picasso, Albert Einstein and Charles Schwab were all dyslexic), it can make reading and early learning more diffi