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Comment on BDA petition – dyslexia training should be part of Teacher Training by Deepak

Deepak — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:55:12 +0000

Hi DanniiI am assuming from your post that your son alreday has a statement so the issue is school transfer. You need, however to approach it in a similar way. Gather evidence as to why the school you want is so perfect (including OFSTED reports, perhaps the school could write something saying how they could support Jake) and, more importantly, why he won’t cope in the LEA school. Use reports from the current school, even commission an Ed Psych report to support your case (of how he needs to bein a specialised environment) if you think it would be worth the money. You could ask for a meeting with the Area Special Needs Manager to explain your case. You should also visit the LEA school and SENCo yourself if you haven’t alreday done so and include in your parental preference form or whatever, solid reasons why it isn’t suitable from your own opinion of visiting. You should stress how you have been happy within the state system until now but this new school will be detrimental to your son’s learning and his psychological state and how you believe the LEA school will not be able to provide the educational environment or support to enable your son to be prepared for adult life. How it cannot offer training in the social skills that he needs etc etc. State your case rationally, think of any arguments the LEA may come up with and have answers for them before the arise. You could also do a cost analysis of the new school you want (fees) against the base cost of the LEA school and all the support (including any external OT, SLT) You may be able to find these figures on your council website if you look closely and extensively enough (use google rather then the website’s search engine) Good luck and do let me know how you get on. Tamia

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Comment on New changes to GCSE ‘will penalise dyslexic pupils’ by Dyslexia Lady

Dyslexia Lady — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:10:49 +0000

This is a good idea. There is government money to set up schools at the moment. So it may be worth getting together with friends and colleagues and see what you can do. You don’t need to be the ‘brains of Britain’ to do it, just employ one. Good luck. Maria

Comment on What is the best Spell Checker? by Diane

Diane — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:29:29 +0000

Phonetic Dictionary for Dyslexics Although we do have a dyslexic word speller as a book and an APP on Smartphones, it is based on American English spelling. "American Wordspeller & Phonetic Dictionary" is currently the only resource tool of its kind and beats Microsoft's Gotit hands down. But, alas, big corporations have big money to advertise. Either way, this resource tool could use some British spelling inputs and we're always looking for help to add to the list. Today, Friday, April 20, we have it marked down from $4.99 to $0.99. This wordspeller/spell checker was designed by and for dyslexics. Is it "mettle, meddle, medal or metal"? The APP and book are designed to cross-reference words which sound or are spelled similar. As well, you may misspell a word however you like. Only requires the first 3-4 letters to locate your word. PLUS, it provides suffix/prefixes for many words. www.dyslexiadictionary.com

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Comment on New changes to GCSE ‘will penalise dyslexic pupils’ by n kelly

n kelly — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:52:34 +0000

Could some of these newly trained dyslexia teachers (as there are so many of them,redundant) set up an independant school if they asked for funding off people like Richard Branson , to get dyslexic kids through senior school then ask the government – in view of the rose report 2009 to give them financial support also. If it was run as a charity when these young people get jobs they could pay some of the money back, if they could.

Comment on What is the best Spell Checker? by Tom

Tom — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 07:09:16 +0000

When developing a spell checker, you have to develop dedicated algorithms that can identify and correct the spelling of your target audience.
Due to the spelling complexity of people with dyslexia the regular spell checker is not really able to correct spelling of people with dyslexia.
In order to correct dyslexic spelling the spell checker developer needs to develop special algorithms and as far as I know the only spell checker that had people with dyslexia in mind when developing the spell checker is Ghotit dyslexia spell and grammar checker http://www.ghotit.com

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Comment on Dyslexic boy wins right to challenge education board by journal économique

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Comment on Dyslexia Awareness Week by Dyslexia Lady

Dyslexia Lady — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 07:58:16 +0000

hi, there is extensive information in my website, under ‘dyscalculia’. I am sure you will find a lot of answeres there. If you have a specific question, please come back to me and I will try to help (I try and help as many people as possible).
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