Tests For Dyslexia - Articles
Grant Funds Genetic Test for Dyslexia
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Shelley Dannenberg
Yale University has won a $5.2 million dollar grant to conduct studies in locating genes involved with dyslexia.The research will be led by Dr. Jeffrey Gruen, an associate professor at the Department of Pediatrics, Genetics, and Investigative Medicine at Yale. Gruen's discovery ...
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Dyslexia is...
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Eric W.
Going through all the jelly jars in the cupboard to find the one cherry jar. Strawberry, raspberry, raspberry strawberry blueberry awww cherry. Opening the jar smoothing a nice slice of jelly toast. Taking a big bite of jelly covered bread.... only to discover that the jar you opened was raspberry all along. In fact that jar of Cherry jelly ne ...
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Dyslexia
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Kimberly H.
Let me preface this by saying - I truly have a soft place in my heart for people with learning disabilities... and while I've never been officially diagnosed with dyslexia - I firmly believe that I have it in some mild form. Case in point - 99% of the time, if you give me a phone number or a series of numbers to remember... I'm going t ...
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The Talents of Dyslexia
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Drs. Fernettte & Brock E.
This is such a wonderful paper, we have to include it in our blog. It's amazing that the very first case of dyslexia in 1896 had the headmaster's note that the boy "would be the smartest lad in the school if the instruction were entirely oral". How often this is true today. Eventual ...
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Glasses for Dyslexia?
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Shane H.
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What would you say if I told you that glasses could help your child's dyslexia? Yes, glasses. Dr. Robert Dahlem, in an effort to help his own dyslexic son, has created glasses (called RAD prism) to help children who suffer from this reading disa ...
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Visual Dyslexia
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Drs. Fernettte & Brock E.
For those who doubt a visual perceptual component to dyslexia or existence of the visual word form area, here's another important study. It's a case report, but because of it's careful analysis, it was able to demonstrate that t ...
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Could it be Dyslexia?
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Denise Punger MD IBCLC
... irst William, Now Scott. But Scott is older than William was when he finally caught on. William is doing well. I was recently reminded of a very close blood relative who has dyslexia. It's been haunting me. Are the signs STARING me in the face? It sure looks like it. I know, I know... someone wants to blame it on his being "home-tutored." (The te ...
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A New Angle on Dyslexia
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Linda MacDonald Glenn
New York Times reports that an unexpectedly high number of small business owners are dyslexic. . The report, compiled by Julie Logan, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Cass Business School in London, found that more than a third of the entrepreneurs she had surveyed — 35 percent — identified themselves as dyslexic. The study also concluded t ...
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Dyslexia Research Study
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Shane H.
... f Health is searching for families of children with reading difficulties that do not respond adequately to the best available instruction. Your child will be given a group of tests that will take 30 minutes. Data from that test alone will help contribute to the understanding of dyslexia. Then, your family will be contacted from time to time with of ...
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