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Reasoning and Dyslexia: is Visual Memory a Compensatory Resource?
Effective reasoning is fundamental to problem solving and achievement in education and employment. Protocol studies have previously suggested that people with dyslexia use reasoning strategies based on visual mental representations, whereas non‐dyslexics use abstract verbal strategies. This research presents converging evidence from experimental and individual differences perspectives. In Experiment 1, dyslexic and non‐dyslexic participants were similarly accurate on reasoning problems, but scores on a measure of visual memory ability only predicted reasoning accuracy for dyslexics. In Experiment 2, a secondary task lo...
Source: Dyslexia - August 1, 2014 Category: Neurology Authors: Alison M. Bacon, Simon J. Handley Tags: Research Article Source Type: research
IJERPH, Vol. 19, Pages 10719: & ldquo;You Don & rsquo;t Look Dyslexic & rdquo;: Using the Job Demands & mdash;Resource Model of Burnout to Explore Employment Experiences of Australian Adults with Dyslexia
Conclusion: The JD-R Model provided a guiding framework. We found participants experienced a myriad of challenges that included risk of mental exhaustion, discrimination, limited access to support and fatigue, leaving them vulnerable to job burn-out. Dyslexia does not have to be a major barrier to success in any occupation. Yet, when in supportive, informed workplace environments, employees with dyslexia thrive.
Source: International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health - August 28, 2022 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Shae Wissell Leila Karimi Tanya Serry Lisa Furlong Judith Hudson Tags: Article Source Type: research
Unlocking our potential
Kathleen Kennedy’s busy life belies narrow-minded assumptions about disabled people
When people meet Kathleen Kennedy for the first time they often think she has learning difficulties. In reality, she has a degree in business and is the author of two books.
Having a disability throws up many problems in the workplace, largely around the assumptions that other people make. But UNISON disabled members are working together to tackle those assumptions.
Kathleen is 43 and lives independently in Aberdeen. She is a support assistant for her local council, and is the vice-chair and equality officer at her UNISON branch, as w...
Source: UNISON Health care news - October 22, 2018 Category: UK Health Authors: Rosa Ellis Tags: Article Magazine disability discrimination disability-information-day-2018 disabled members Source Type: news
Awareness of developmental language disorder amongst workplace managers
CONCLUSIONS: These findings support existing literature and have implications for policy and practice - namely that young people with DLD may need to be proactive about disclosing their language needs, and that workplaces need increased basic training in DLD.PMID:34800812 | DOI:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2021.106165
Source: Journal of Communication Disorders - November 20, 2021 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Carmen de Lemos Ariadne Kranios Rosie Beauchamp-Whitworth Anna Chandwani Nick Gilbert Amy Holmes Abby Pender Ciara Whitehouse Nicola Botting Source Type: research
Auditory brainstem responses to stop consonants predict literacy
Dyslexia is a developmental reading and spelling disorder with a complex genetic architecture (Fisher and DeFries, 2002). The cumulative incidence rate is high with 5-12% (Shaywitz SE et al., 1990). Dyslexia persists in 4-6% of adults (Schulte-K örne and Remschmidt, 2003) disadvantaging employment, and compromising participation in daily life. Prevention requires early sensitive screenings that need to assess several cognitive domains as well as multiple senses because literacy acquisition evolves from the interplay between linguistic comp etencies, attention, memory, audition, vision, and gaze-control (Mcanally and Stein...
Source: Clinical Neurophysiology - December 17, 2016 Category: Neuroscience Authors: Nicole E. Neef, Gesa Schaadt, Angela D. Friederici Source Type: research
Developmental dyscalculia: Causes, characteristics, and interventions.
We live in a world that requires us to process enormous amounts of numerical information. Operating technical devices, estimating or calculating monetary gains or costs, and time management are just a few of the daily demands that require numerical processing. It is evident that a lack of numerical fluency can exert a profoundly negative impact on individual productivity, employment, health, and finances. For example, low numerical skills are associated with lower income, higher risk of being sick, or higher risk of mortgage default (Gerardi, Goette, & Meier, 2013; Parsons & Bynner, 2005). One reason for low numeracy is de...
Source: Zeitschrift fur Psychologie - August 10, 2015 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kuhn, Jörg-Tobias Source Type: research
A Special Learning Journey Cut Short
Students at the St Pius X Resource Centre in Malawi for children with physical and developmental disabilities. Credit: Charity Chimungu Phiri/IPSBy Charity Chimungu PhiriBLANTYRE, Malawi, Mar 29 2017 (IPS)When building a house, it’s critical to lay a strong foundation. The same applies to education, with studies showing that children who attend early learning centers perform better in school than those who do not.In Malawi, a 2003 national survey found that only 18.8 percent of school-age children with disabilities were attending class. More than twice as many of the same age group without disabilities (41.1 percent) att...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 29, 2017 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Charity Chimungu Phiri Tags: Africa Education Headlines Health Poverty & SDGs Disability rights early childhood education Malawi World Autism Awareness Day Source Type: news
Looked after children in prison as adults: life adversity and neurodisability
This study aims to understand whether these factors persist in LAC who are in prison as adults.Administrative data collected by the Do-IT profiler screening tool in a prison in Wales, UK, were analysed to compare sentenced prisoners who were LAC (n = 631) to sentenced prisoners who were not LAC (n = 2,201). The sample comprised all prisoners who were screened on entry to prison in a two-year period.Prisoners who were LAC scored more poorly on a functional screener for neurodisability (effect size = 0.24), and on four self-report measures capturing traits of dyslexia (0.22), attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (0.40), ...
Source: International Journal of Prisoner Health - January 23, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Hope Kent Amanda Kirby George Leckie Rosie Cornish Lee Hogarth W. Huw Williams Source Type: research
