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Under the headline “Study shows stronger links between entrepreneurs and dyslexia,” Brent Bowers of the International Herald Tribune reported that a survey of business leaders showed an unusually high proportion of them consider themselves dyslexic. Liz Ditz covered this story a couple of weeks ago, which is fitting given her recurring coverage of high-achieving dyslexics. [...] Continue reading →

Molly Sullivan Sliney, who has dyslexia, is prouder of her academic accomplishments than her Olympic medals. Under the headline “Olympic fencer Molly Sliney shares story of struggle and triumph” in the Danvers (MA, US) Herald, Sally Kerans reported on a talk Ms. Sliner gave at Highlands School.
[Despite Ms. Slineys many achievements], the two-time [...] Continue reading →

Over on Teach Effectively! I’ve posted an entry about a workshop on response to intervention that’s being hosted by some school psychologists whom I know. Jump to the entry.
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Bridging the Gap between Research and Practice 2007, the annual conference of the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD), is scheduled for next week in San Antonio (TX, US). There are many sessions about important topics (assessment, reading, written expression, etc.), all of which are presented in workshop format led by people widely respected as [...] Continue reading →

I’m happy to be home again, refreshed by having had the opportunity to spend time with so many fine folks in San Antonio (TX, US) while at this year’s fall meeting of the Division for Learning Disabilities. The folks who attended the sessions seemed happy to have had the chance to learn how to use [...] Continue reading →

Carrie Rozell, who promoted greater understanding of Learning Disabilities, died last week. While I was away at the DLD conference, I received the accompanying note about her passing.
On behalf of the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD) Board of Directors, Professional Advisory Board and staff, it is with great sadness that we share with [...] Continue reading →

Organizations in the United Kingdom have just completed “Dyslexia Awareness Week” and “Right to Read Week” (5-12 November 2007), a coordinated effort to promote understanding of literacy and literacy problems.
One of the foci was dyslexia in the workplace. Many organizations (Adult Dyslexia Organisation, British Dyslexia Association, Dyslexia Action, Dyslexia Scotland, HelenArkell, PATOSS, and Xtraordinary [...] Continue reading →

Registration for the British Dyslexia Association Conference 2008 is now open. The meetings are 27-29 March 2008 at Harrogate International Conference Centre in Harrogate (Yorkshire, UK). It should be a worthwhile conference. There is a fine list of keynote presentations.
Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
Treating reading disability without reading: evaluating alternative intervention approaches
Bob Burden, [...] Continue reading →

Young children with dyslexia do not respond as well as their non-disabled peers when asked to determine whether a briefly shown string of letters are the same as another string seen just seconds earlier, according to Urs Maurer (Depar tment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Switzerland) and colleagues (various institutions). Although their [...] Continue reading →

Jane Vance Rule, a novelist who had dyslexia as a child, died 27 November 2007. Among her many books and stories, Ms. Rule’s novel Desert of the Heart was the basis for a movie entitled “Desert Hearts” is 1985 by Donna Deitch.
Of course, it’s hard to know about the diagnosis of dyslexia, especially given [...] Continue reading →