Dyslexia Explored

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#119 Education Technology and Closing the Gap with Dyslexia. Avi Warshavsky Feb 16, 2022

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This week, I sat down with Avi Warshavsky, the Founder and CEO of MindCET. They gather groups of entrepreneurs in an incubator environment and help them establish their businesses. He’s also the founder of Global Education Technology Startups Awards or GESAwards, one of the biggest awarding bodies for Ed-Tech Startups in the world. He is also the father of 5 children and 4 of them have dyslexia.

Avi Warshavsky shared his background on how he came to be in the startup world and how his father’s dyslexia helped him observe his children’s dyslexia. Avi also talked about closing the gap with dyslexia and the future of technology in terms of assisting dyslexia.

Links you might want to check:

MindCET’s Website: https://www.mindcet.org/en/

GESAwards Website: https://www.globaledtechawards.org/

Avi’s LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/avi-warshavsky/

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#118 Orton-Gillingham Tutor shared about homeschooling, IEP, self-efficacy and learning to teach differently. Ash Voisine Dec 01, 2021

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Ash Voisine was a business and entrepreneurship graduate but when a teacher of her child admitted that they can’t help the child, she decided to homeschool her kids. She looked for other ways to teach with programs like the Orton-Gillingham system. She’s now finishing her master’s degree in special education.

This week, we talked to Ash Voisine about how she found out she’s dyslexic when she was studying to be an Orton-Gillingham tutor for her children. She also talked about the IEP and the red tape parents may encounter when fighting for their child's rights at school. Listen to her story now.

Links you might want to check:

Orton-Gillingham: https://www.ortonacademy.org/resources/what-is-the-orton-gillingham-approach/

Not Bound Living Website: https://notboundliving.com/

Hippy dyslexic homestead Podcast: https://anchor.fm/hippydyslexichomestead

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#117 Writing Story Essay Using the Story Star Method Nov 19, 2021

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Children with dyslexia often have brilliant and incredible stories to share in their heads but always struggle to get them out and put them into words. A lot of the time, their imagination and creativity go beyond what was required in the question and they get so overwhelmed halfway that they ended up leaving it unfinished. Going off-topic is a common occurrence and the lack of cohesiveness forces the teachers to mark it as failed.

It’s in every exam in the world they ask students to “Write a Short Story”. It sounds easy but for a child with dyslexia, it’s not. We, dyslexics, have no shortage of mind-bending theories and hyper-realistic worlds to share but how to share it is the problem. How do you make sure you have a beginning, middle, and end in your story? How do you make sure your teachers get what you wanted to say? And most importantly, how do you finish the story on time?

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GCSE English - Story Star (Nov 24 at 730pm)

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NAT 5 - Persuasive Essay (Nov 25 at 730pm)

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#116 Dyslexia in the Workplace with Katrina Cochrane Nov 10, 2021

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This week, we had a lovely conversation with Katrina Cochrane, the head of education and policy for the British Dyslexia Association. Katrina has had a wide range of knowledge regarding dyslexia for the past few decades but we focused on what’s happening with dyslexia in the workplace.

As dyspraxic herself, Katrina was exposed to the struggles and confusion of neurodiverse workers in the workplace. She later specialised in dyslexia teaching and became part of the British Dyslexia Association.

In the UK, Katrina observed that dyslexia in the workplace had improved more than in schools in the last ten years. Companies are learning how to accommodate people with dyslexia as they understand that it can be a good investment in their companies. Listen to the podcast as Katrina also discussed what a workplace needs assessment is and how it is assessed.

Links you might want to check:

Website:

Liverpool Conference on 12th of November: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2nd-annual-positive-dyslexia-conference-liverpool-tickets-142746437437

Dyslexia Masterclass on 3rd of December: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/x/dyscalculia-masterclass-tickets-161397057945

Positive Dyslexia:

https://www.positivedyslexia.co.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClofxgO_d9587-ynIS4BN7Q

British dyslexia association:

https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/

https://www.youtube.com/c/BritishDyslexia

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#115 Beyond Word Decoding and the Struggle of Understanding Pronouns. Lois Letchford Aug 31, 2021

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This week, I have invited Lois Letchford, a returning guest here in Dyslexia Explored, to talk about her recently published research paper through the International Literacy Association titled “Moving beyond Decoding: Teaching Pronoun Resolution to Develop Reading Comprehension”.

In her paper, Lois Letchford and her co-author, Timothy Rasinski, identified that less proficient readers like people with dyslexia often are not as proficient in resolving pronouns. It is another comprehension task that teachers often dismiss as the student being lazy or dumb.

Lois shared with us how pronouns such as; he, she, they, it, etc., confuse people with dyslexia. They often find it difficult to remember which noun was the pronoun replacing. She also offered strategies on how we, as parents and teachers, can help our students overcome this challenge. Listen to her story now.

Links you might want to check:

International Literacy Association: https://www.literacyworldwide.org/

Website: https://www.loisletchford.com/

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Twitter: @LoisLetchford

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#114 Bilingual and Dyslexia by Aimee Kyffin Jul 06, 2021

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Have you tried studying another language? We all know it can be extremely hard to learn something you are not used to. Now, imagine what a child with dyslexia feels after moving to a country with a very different language. Learning a language is hard enough, but to learn another language while you are still learning to read with dyslexia is daunting. That is what our guest for today has experienced, when she and her family transferred to another country. Aimee Kyffin was not yet diagnosed with dyslexia when they moved to the Netherlands. Early on, she was having difficulty reading and understanding her lessons but people were just shrugging it off as they suspected it was just because she wasn’t used to the language.

This week, I had a great conversation with Aimee Kyffin as she talked about her dyslexia story. She also shared a new technology they developed where children can learn in a multi-sensory way. It basically lets you use colour to visualise spelling. It’s a very interesting technology which they plan on publishing in 2022. Listen to the podcast and hear her story.

Links you might want to check:

Website: https://aemkyffin.wixsite.com/design

Aimee’s click-it project which will be published in 2022: https://clickit-learn.co.uk

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#113 Brilliantly Dyslexic; A Children’s Book that Builds Confidence. Elizabeth Trudeau Jun 30, 2021

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This week, I had an interesting conversation with Elizabeth Trudeau, a mother of a daughter with dyslexia. Elizabeth wants to share her passion, a project she just completed which initially started when she wanted to help her child understand her dyslexia. She noticed that her child responded greatly to stories about other professionals with dyslexia who have made it through school and life.

Seeing that other children also responded well to these success stories, Elizabeth wrote and published a children’s story book about real life people with dyslexia. In this podcast, Elizabeth shared what she realised while writing and researching the book about the social and emotional aspect of dyslexia and what we, as parents, can do about it. Listen to her story now.

Links you might want to check:

Website: www.brilliantlydyslexic.com

Elizabeth Trudeau’s email: hello@brilliantlydyslexic.com

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#112 Stave House; Music in a Visual and Creative Language. Ruth Travers May 18, 2021

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This week, I had a very interesting and musical conversation with Ruth Travers, the founder of Stave House. Ruth has developed a process for children to master music theory through visual and creative language. As we learnt from the previous episode, dyslexia is affecting children to learn and read music just as it is affecting them to read words.

Through Ruth’s fun and engaging program, children use their imagination and creativity to make sense of what they are seeing in the music sheet. Listen to the episode and discover Ruth Travers’ story as she explains how her process helped her students.

Links you might want to check:

Website: www.stavehouse.co.uk

Stave House Online Course:https://stavehouse.co.uk/product/complete-childrens-home-course-level-1/

Facebook: www.facebook.com/stavehouse

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#111 Reading Music and Dyslexia Group. Discussion on How Dyslexia Affects Learning to Read Music May 17, 2021

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This week, we invited children with dyslexia, parents and educators to ask them about their experiences with learning music. It surprises me that people are amazed when they hear that dyslexia might affect reading music when it definitely affects reading words.

In this episode, we want to start a conversation about dyslexia and music because there aren’t many people who are talking about this. The group talked about the struggles they or their children have encountered and some of the techniques that helped them cope. Music educators shared some common challenges that children with learning differences can be tripped up with, when learning music. This discussion barely scratched the surface but hopefully this will spark a new wave of conversations about learning music in a different more dyslexia-friendly way.

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#110 Dungeons & Dragons, Photographic Memory and Dyslexia with Andrew Nehring May 12, 2021

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We have a very fascinating story we’d like to share this week. It’s about Andrew Nehring who has a photographic memory, excellent auditory memory and dyslexia. It is a very interesting combination because people tend to correlate dyslexia with poor memory. Some of Andrew’s teachers didn’t believe he has dyslexia because he could relay what the teachers told him.

In this episode of Dyslexia Explored, I talked to Andrew Nehring as he shared his dyslexia story and how playing dungeons and dragons as a child helped him write stories for his books. Andrew has written 2 science fiction novels while he was in college. Now, he’s going to publish his 3rd book “David Massie and the Quantum Flux” this July 2021.

Links you might want to check:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/NehringAndrew

Website: https://www.andrewmnehring.com/

Pre-order David's 3rd Book. Out on the 13th of July: https://www.amazon.com/David-Massie-Quantum-Andrew-Nehring-ebook/dp/B0945HKQ9J/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=andrew+nehring+david+massie&qid=1620739916&sr=8-1

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