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Forget colour overlays - dyslexia is not a vision problem
The popular belief that dyslexia is caused by sight problems has been blown out of the water by a study of 6000 school children. So what does cause it?
Source: New Scientist - Health - May 25, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research
The Girl Who Taught Me to Spell the Word 'Love'
In my 49 years on this planet, I have had the chance to meet some amazing people and make a lot of good friends. Some have lasted beyond time and circumstance, while others have ended naturally after school, or a move or job change.
A few ended painfully.
But there is one friend whose effect on me was so profound that I think of her often.
Carol and I were in the same afternoon kindergarten class. She was my ideal of what a girl should look and be like. Her long, brown hair hung down to her waist, and she possessed the all-American face I longed for myself. She had the ability to make friends easily and always managed t...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - May 19, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The last word on dyslexia?
Dyslexia is not just an issue for 'middle-class mothers whose children aren't as bright as they'd wished'. Eleanor Doughty talks to neuroscientist Usha Goswami
Source: Telegraph Health - May 9, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Foundation Doctors and DyslexiaFoundation Doctors and Dyslexia
A new study explores the difficulties associated with dyslexia experienced by foundation doctors, and how they find support. Postgraduate Medical Journal
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - April 17, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Med Students Journal Article Source Type: news
This 2-Minute Test Helps Parents Easily Figure Out If A Child Has A Concussion
A quick and simple test can identify concussions in children as young as 5 with an astonishing rate of success, according to a new study. So why aren’t people talking about it more?
The King-Devick test, as it’s called, was originally developed in the 1970s as a way to detect dyslexia. But a new study out of New York University's Langone Concussion Center and published in the Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology has found convincing evidence that it can also detect when athletes of all ages suffer a concussion -- and that it can do so even better than other commonly used tests.
What’s most notable about the King-Devick ...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - March 6, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dyslexia Needn't Hold Doctors BackDyslexia Needn't Hold Doctors Back
Failing kindergarten was the first of many school struggles for Blake Charlton. Diagnosed with dyslexia, he was relegated to remedial classes that he barely passed. Reuters Health Information
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - February 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Family Medicine/Primary Care News Source Type: news
Dyslexia needn’t hold doctors back
(Reuters Health) - - Failing kindergarten was the first of many school struggles for Blake Charlton. Diagnosed with dyslexia, he was relegated to remedial classes that he barely passed. Now, at 35, reading still poses a challenge. He’s a self-described “crummy” speller who manages written communications by relying on abbreviations. People who recall his academic difficulties are often surprised at the abbreviation that now follows his name: M.D.
Source: Reuters: Health - February 26, 2015 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Dyslexia Likely Not Caused by Ocular Motility DisordersDyslexia Likely Not Caused by Ocular Motility Disorders
Children with dyslexia do not share the same brain network for reading as children with impaired binocular vision related to ocular motility disorders, according to a Spanish study. Medscape Medical News
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - December 5, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Radiology News Source Type: news
Reading Harry Potter Provides Clues to Brain Activity
Scientists have been using Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone to work out what happens in different parts of the brain when people read and connect words with the ideas behind them.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Pennsylvania performed scans on the brains of eight people as they read the ninth chapter of the first book in J.K. Rowling’s famous series.
Leila Wehbe, a graduate student who conducted much of the research, told CMU’s News site that the chapter is about Harry’s first flying lesson. “It turns out that movement of the characters — such as when they are f...
Source: TIME.com: Top Science and Health Stories - November 28, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Naina Bajekal Tags: Uncategorized Harry Potter psychology Source Type: news
A Learning Problem Is Not an Intelligence Problem
Report cards are coming home, and a good number of parents are worried that their child seems to be showing signs of a learning disability. Their concern is well founded; learning disabilities including A.D.H.D. and dyslexia affect 20% of our students and less than half get the attention they need. That is a large community, in fact, the largest minority in the country. For these kids, often the day is longer, the challenge greater, the work harder. Unless we identify and assist them, the national cost in human potential and hard dollars will be tremendous.
Kids with learning disabilities drop out ten times more frequentl...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - November 25, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
This font may help dyslexics read better
Inspired by his own experiences with dyslexia, Dutch designer Christian Boer developed a font to make reading easier
Source: Health News: CBSNews.com - November 12, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Can Brain Scans Help Predict Young Children's Reading Abilities?
Imaging might detect early reading troubles like dyslexia, researchers say
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Child Development, Learning Disorders, MRI Scans
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - September 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Scientists Find Differences in Brains of Those with Dyslexia
Scans showed less connectivity in regions linked to reading
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Page: Learning Disorders
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - August 29, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Researchers See Link Between Dyslexia, Abuse
But they're not sure which one might lead to the other
Source: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Pages: Child Abuse, Learning Disorders
Source: MedlinePlus Health News - July 10, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Health Notes: Keira Knightley conquers dyslexia with a little help from Jane Austen
Keira, 29, said her mother helped her overcome her dyslexia by making her recite Emma Thompson’s Oscar-winning screenplay for Sense And Sensibility aloud.
Source: the Mail online | Health - June 22, 2014 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
