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• What Protective Factors Lead to Resilience In Children with Reading Problems

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 19 February, 2018

  What Protective Factors Lead to Resilience in Students with Dyslexia?
  Students with developmental dyslexia (i.e., reading disorder or specific reading disability) typically have core deficits in phonological processing (i.e., phonological memory, phonological awareness, naming speed). Phonological-awareness weaknesses often result in difficulties with associating letters (graphemes) with the speech sounds (phonemes) that the graphemes spell.

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• This May Seem Odd, but it Could Help Your Baby and Save Your Sanity Too

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 19 February, 2018

  How To Soothe A Crying Baby – The Secret Is Out
  We recently discovered some important information that we thought we SHOULD bring to your attention – there may be a foolproof way to soothe a crying baby…say what??
  
  
  Now I’m no mother yet (but for the love of your crying baby, please don’t stop reading!), because I may have stumbled upon a ‘secret’ in the language of crying babies…let me start at the beginning.

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• How Anxiety Can Lead to Disruptive Behaviour

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 19 February, 2018

  Kids who seem oppositional are often severely anxious
  A 10-year-old boy named James has an outburst in school. Upset by something a classmate says to him, he pushes the other boy, and a shoving-match ensues. When the teacher steps in to break it up, James goes ballistic, throwing papers and books around the classroom and bolting out of the room and down the hall. He is finally contained in the vice principal’s office, where staff members try to calm him down. Instead, he kicks the vice principal in a frenzied effort to escape. The staff calls 911, and James ends up in the Emergency Room.

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• The Only Time Children Really Understand the World is When They Read

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 19 February, 2018

  Katherine Rundell was low on money when she won the Waterstones prize for children’s fiction for her novel Rooftoppers nearly four years ago. The £5,000 that came with the award meant the young author could afford tickets to the Amazon to research a new novel, The Explorer – a book that has just landed her the prestigious Costa children’s books prize, won in the past by giants of the genre from Roald Dahl to Philip Pullman.

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• This is What It’s Like Having a Sibling with Autism

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 19 February, 2018

  Siblings for life, friends forever

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• What Choices are we Giving our Children to Read

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 19 February, 2018

  It made me stop and think about reading and what we offer children in our school. Do we offer a gruel or a gourmet reading experience for our pupils. I found myself time-travelling back to my youth and thinking about what made me a reader

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• It’s a Myth That Young Children Cannot be Screened for Dyslexia or Reading- Problems – their Language Skills will Give massive Clue

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 19 February, 2018

  It’s a Myth That Young Children Cannot Be Screened for Dyslexia!
  A diagnosis of developmental dyslexia in elementary school is primarily based upon a “wait-to-fail-approach.” This approach requires a child to demonstrate a significant struggle to learn to read over a prolonged period of time before more intensive (quality and quantity) interventional strategies are discussed and eventually put into place. Paradoxically, although a diagnosis of dyslexia usually is not given before the end of second grade or the beginning of third grade (after the requisite period of failing), intensive interventions are most effective in kindergarten or first grade

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• What We Learn About Dyslexia

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 16 January, 2018

  5 Things We Learned About The Dyslexic Brain From An MIT Neuroscientist
  Dr. John Gabrieli is a professor and expert neuroscientist in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Science at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology.

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• Cognitive Load Theory in the Classroom

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 16 January, 2018

  What is Cognitive Load Theory?
  It’s a shame, really. Teachers across the world spend large sums of money on their university training. They spend large amounts of time committing to writing papers, lesson plans, learning how to write reliable/valid assessments, discovering education law, etc.

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• Life after a Stroke

  Posted in: Latest News | Posted on: 16 January, 2018

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