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Dyslexia

“Dyslexia is biological in origin and tends to run in families, but environmental factors may also contribute to it. Dyslexia affects all kinds of people regardless of intelligence, race or social class. About 10% of the population have some form of dyslexia. About 4% are severely dyslexic, including some 375,000 schoolchildren. Dyslexia causes difficulties in learning to read, write and spell. Short-term memory, mathematics, concentration, personal organisation and sequencing may be affected. The effects of dyslexia can largely be overcome by skilled specialist teaching and the use of compensatory strategies.” The Dyslexia Institute, 2002

Dyslexia was first diagnosed in 1896 by Dr Pringle Morgan as ‘word blindness’. Since then our knowledge of dyslexia, and how to help children and adults with dyslexia, has increased.

I will assess children and adults, and tailor an individual programme to address their needs. I am trained to use the following programmes:

• Dyslexia Institute’s Literacy Programme (DILP)
• Alpha to Omega (Beve Hornsby, Frula Shear and Julie Pool of The Hornsby Institute, now Dyslexia Action)
• Additional Literacy Kit (Dyslexia Action)
• Units of Sound (Dyslexia Action)
• Adult Literacy Kit (Dyslexia Action)
• Touchtyping (TTRS)
  

These programmes are all “structured” to help reading and spelling make sense; “cumulative” to build on learning; “multi-sensory” using visual, aural and tactile techniques; and “thorough” with constant revision.

 

A 5-month open study with long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids in dyslexia

Journal of Medicinal Food Dec 2007, Vol. 10, No. 4: 662-666. This open pilot study investigated effects of a docosahexaenoic acid (DHA)-rich supplement on learning ability in a group of 20 dyslexic children in Sweden. Children formally diagnosed as dyslexic took eight capsules per day of a long-chain ... (Source: Journal of Medicinal Food)

Joy to the world!

Joy to the world! the Lord is come;
Let earth receive her King;
Let every heart prepare him room,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven and nature sing,
And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing.

Joy to the world! the Saviour reigns;
Let men their songs employ;
While fields and floods, rocks, hills, and plains
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat the sounding joy,
Repeat, repeat the sounding joy.

No more let sins and sorrows grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground;
He comes to make His blessings flow
Far as the curse is found,
Far as the curse is found,
Far as, far as, the curse is found.

He rules the world with truth and grace,
And makes the nations prove
The glories of His righteousness,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders of His love,
And wonders, wonders, of His love.

Dyslexia tied to disorganized brain tracts

Dyslexia marked by poor reading fluency -- slow and choppy reading -- may be caused by disorganized, meandering tracts of nerve fibers in the brain, according to a study by Harvard researchers. Additional research topics at Children's health More research news at Consumer information (Source: Harvard Medicine)

Homeschoolers Helping Huckabee

Here is a story out of Iowa about Christian homeschoolers supporting Mike Huckabee.  For all the $7 million plus that Mitt Romney has poured into Iowa (compared to Mike Huckabee's < $400K), I think Romney will be singing "can't buy me looove..." when the caucuses are over.  For who can stand up to the political power of Christian homeschoolers and their children? 

From the article, Vicki Crawford says:

"From here on out, we are for the next month going to go and volunteer for Governor Huckabee. That's part of our school. Life is a field trip."

And, field trips that matter give life so much more meaning.  That's why, whether it is standing in front of our local abortion clinic or canvassing our precinct before an election, our children are beside us.

Pray for the Christian homeschoolers in Iowa, that God gives the strength and organizational skills to help Mike Huckabee to victory.

To help support Mike Huckabee, go to his website:  www.mikehuckabee.com

The significance of dyslexia screening for the assessment of dementia in older people

Dyslexia and Dementia are disorders that share cognitive impairments in attention, language, and working memory. It is therefore possible that the presence of dyslexia may influence the assessment of the severity of dementia and potentially lead to the development of atypical forms of dementia. The present study investigated the prevalence of problems suggestive of dyslexia with a brief self-report questionnaire in a sample of 195 older adults referred to a Memory Clinic for dementia assessment. Ten percent reported problems suggestive of dyslexia consistent with the estimated prevalence in the general population. This group performed significantly lower in a number of attention and language related tests but not in other cognitive domains. These results highlight the importance of dyslexia screening for the assessment of dementia, not least because the choice of treatment is guided by the outcome of the assessment of the severity and the type of dementia. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (Source: International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry)

Defeating Tyranny

Too often Americans become lulled into contentment, wrapped as we are in our wealth and indulgence.  If you look around, it is hard to believe that our brave sons, brothers, nephews, and neighbors are at this very moment in faraway lands defending liberty.  Today is a good day to remember that we are at war -- perhaps not "total war" in the historical industrial-economic sense -- but, war none-the-less.

Radical Islam is the enemy today, like fascism and imperialism before it.  But these are just different names for tyranny.

Tyranny is not just a political or socioeconomic condition of nation-states, but a condition of all men's unregenerate hearts.  A condition juxtaposed to God's desire for our heart and commandments:

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'  The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'  There is no commandment greater than these."

So, today, remember those who sacrificed for the causes of liberty and pray for those who stand today to sacrifice for the same.  Remember too that, through Christ's strength, we have the power to defeat the tyranny of the heart and mind that would separate us from God, so that we might be a better witness to the peace that can only come from Him.
 

Spatial cueing deficits in dyslexia reflect generalised difficulties with attentional selection.

Spatial cueing deficits in dyslexia reflect generalised difficulties with attentional selection.

Vision Res. 2007 Dec 7;

Authors: Roach NW, Hogben JH

Traditionally, explanations of spatial cueing effects posit the operation of orienting mechanisms that act to reposition the spatial locus of attention. This process is often viewed to be analogous to the movement of an attentional 'spotlight' across the visual field to the cued region and is thought to occur either in an exogenous or endogenous manner, depending on the nature of the cue. In line with this view, anomalous findings in dyslexic groups using paradigms involving brief peripheral cues have been interpreted as evidence for a particular deficiency with stimulus-driven, exogenous orienting. Here, we demonstrate that an exogenous orienting deficit is an unfeasible explanation of recent findings in which dyslexic individuals fail to derive benefit from peripheral cues indicating the location of a target in a single fixation visual search task. In a series of experiments examining cueing effects in normal readers, we find no evidence to support the operation of an attentional orienting mechanism that is (i) fast but transient; (ii) automatic and involuntary; and (iii) preferentially driven by abrupt luminance transients. Rather, we find that the magnitude of obtained benefits is primarily determined by the informational value of the cue (irrespective of how information is conveyed) and the accessibility of the target representation once the cue had been delivered. In addition, we show that dyslexic individuals' difficulties with cued search do not reflect problems with detecting and localising the cue, and generalise to different cue types. These results are consistent with a general weakness of attentional selection in dyslexia.

PMID: 18068752 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

(Source: Vision Research)

Reading fluency may be linked to white-matter brain defects

A new study implicates defects in brain white matter in impaired reading fluency, seen both in people with dyslexia and patients with a rare genetic brain condition called periventricular nodular heterotopia. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Med Students Headlines)

Growing up with dyslexia: interviews with teenagers and young adults

Interviews with 75 teenagers and young adults were performed to investigate how young people with dyslexia experienced school in terms of well-being, educational achievement, self-esteem, peer relations and belief in their future. Results from earlier studies suggest that secondary emotional problems are common. The first six grades in school were experienced by the interviewees as full of distress and failure for a majority. Though peer relations were often good, many had experienced bullying. As they grew older, problems were more limited to reading and writing activities. This was thought to be an effect of acknowledgement and compartmentalization of the disability along with choices of school curricula and occupations in line with subjects' talents and capacities. Academic self-esteem seemed low, and most subjects had chosen vocational programmes in secondary school and had decided not to go to college. The most optimistic subjects were those who had finished school and were permanently employed. Early diagnosis along with careful explanation of the disability was recommended as well as the encouragement of dyslexic children in areas where they can do well and which makes them view themselves positively. (Source: School Psychology International)

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