Emma Jefferies, is an award winning researcher, designer, educator, writer and more recently, a filmmaker. She also has dyslexia. In a series of videos, she speaks about the challenges and processes she went through while earning her Ph.D (in Design). Watch this first of a few videos posted on the Innovation Investment Journal website. At [...]
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A New and Interesting study, which will go online today in the journal Science, shows that people with dyslexia have a harder time distinguishing between the voices of individual speakers and the nuances of their phonetic speech patterns than do non-dyslexic peers. The study, from MIT, theorized that the language processing parts of dyslexia might [...]
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I’ve heard great things about Harvey Hubbell’s upcoming movie and am looking forward to seeing it. I always wonder however, how anyone knows whether or not Einstein was really dyslexic. I wish folks would rely on people they are sure have learning disabilities when naming “role models” with dyslexia There’s plenty of them. Here, the [...]
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In this Washington Post blog entry, Meghan Benzel, who graduated with an associate’s degree from Landmark College in Vermont in May, talks about what she believes led to her success. What I like is how her path to life and school success includes multiple stops. She starts with an associates degree from college and will [...]
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…Or does it act like a forklift, freeing your brain from having to remember bits of information in favor of exercising your critical thinking skills? Published by Betsy Sparrow, Jenny Liu, and Daniel M. Wegner, on the Web site of Science Magazine, and written about in the International Business Times, this study says in part, [...]
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Posted in LD Support Sites on Jul 11th, 2011 4 Comments »
Well, not that there aren’t enough reasons already not to smoke and not to smoke around kids. Learning Disabilities and Second-Hand Smoke This is one of those studies that isn’t air tight but does corroborate other indicators and point towards more studies to see whether causation exists.
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A recent “twin study” from Stanford University is now released in the July 4 online issue of Archives of General Psychiatry. The results of this study highlight that environmental factors play a larger role than previously shown in earlier studies. Researchers from Stanford University looked at 192 pairs of twins, including 54 pair of identical [...]
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