News & Views from Davis Dyslexia Association International
While in Western countries the dyslexia phenomenon has been closely explored, in the Japanese education community problems of dyslexics has been silenced for a long time, and only with the book “読めなくても、書けなくても、勉強したい” (I can’t read or write but I want to learn) by Satoru Inoue, the matter started to receive public attention.
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A recently published case study documents the progress of a fourth grade special education student who successfully used a modified
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Davis Symbol Mastery — the modeling of words in clay – is based on the principle that each word has
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Research shows that the most common word found in English-language books is “the.” Matjaž Perc at the University of Maribor in Slovenia
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Strengths Versus Weaknesses
So often when reading about dyslexia one reads and hears only the negative impacts, the struggles and difficulties dyslexic individuals can
A Mother’s Path to Discovery
Book Review: Reversed, a memoir, by Lois Letchford. A mother’s quest to help her dyslexic son.
Why Dyslexics Don’t Have A Bad Memory: Research vs Myth
Maybe you’ve heard it before– “Dyslexics have a bad memory”–but this isn’t completely true. Let’s look to science (Baddeley’s model of
How to spot trouble with trigger words
Dyslexia: how to tell if someone is having difficulty with trigger words In this video I continue to discuss why people
The Dyslexic Statistic
Dyslexia is a common neurodiversity that is ever or omnipresent across all cultures, ages, and societies. Worldwide statistics emphasise than one