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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Here is an article from London about a severely dyslexic elementary school aged boy named David. His mom has been requesting services since kindergarden to no avail. I get angry when I hear stories like this. Waiting until a kid fails for long enough before getting some possible relief and services is an atrocious model [...]
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I’m a very very good reader, fast, accurate and an excellent literal and inferential comprehender…..most of the time. Richard Wanderman, founder of LD Resources, is among other things, dyslexic and probably not the fastest most accurate reader of all time. He’s also a wonderful photographer and an excellent and thoughtful writer. A few weeks back [...]
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This Business Insider photo article, notes fifteen very successful CEO’s who have achieved tremendous success and some breakthrough thinking, in spite of their learning disabilities. Some of them attribute part of their success to their learning disabilities. Does Steve Jobs really have dyslexia? [via Carolyn D. Cowen]
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Ugh. Haven’t we learned yet? Children are growing up with too much pressure to conform and to achieve in a way that minimizes the need for play, robust and creative physical activity, imaginative thinking and oral language development. Early emphasis on drill and rote memorization of facts has not proven to produce long term results. [...]
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If your child with a learning disability is spinning out of control emotionally and behaviorally and you start looking for a therapeutic school or program, how do you go about that? First, if you can, get a current psycho-educational or neuropsychological evaluation. This will help measure and describe the interplay between the current behavioral distress [...]
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The study mentioned in this article in Bloomberg Business Week, is apparently given some mention and explanation in the new HBO documentary, “Journey Into Dyslexia.”. From the Cass Business School in London, the study draws a link between having dyslexia and business success. I met the author of the study a couple of years ago [...]
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Do people with dyslexia make better business visionaries? Apparently, one of the themes of the new HBO documentary, “Journey into Dyslexia” is the reported link between dyslexia and successful entrepreneurship. This opens up so many cans of worms to discuss. I’ll weigh in more later.
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This is a wonderful article from Good, about the absolute need to help young people and teachers re-imagine education in profoundly different ways, including imagining jobs that don’t yet exist. I’ve always been hopeful (“you might say I’m a dreamer…”) for a time when having learning disabilities is truly seen as “learning differently” and simply [...]
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This is a recent article from the NY Times online, The Case for Cursive. It makes the case that kids are losing out by not being taught cursive writing. Since the increase in what’s known as “teaching to the tests”, there’s little time for cursive writing instruction. Plus, with the reality of word processing and [...]
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Dale Brown, a well-known speaker and writer on learning disabilities will be speaking on Rockland Internet radio, Tuesday April 26 at 6:25PM EST. Dale Brown speaks on Dan Windheim’s internet radio show about LD, ADA assistance and more. Dale’s been an important contributor on LD Resources. Her bio’s worth reading, as are her articles. Hope [...]
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