World of Dyslexia Newsletter - June 01

This month we have news about the following items:

** Steve Redgrave, the dyslexic Olympic Oarsman

** Keep up to date with the latest dyslexia headlines

** Schools blamed for failing dyslexic pupils

** A young person's guide to dyslexia

** Dyslexic adults coping with dyslexia

** No cursive handwriting in North Carolina?

Please note that a complete copy of this newsletter has been set up at

www.dyslexia-teacher.co.uk/newsletter.html

with 'live' links to save you the trouble of having to copy and paste them into your browser.

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Steve Redgrave, the dyslexic Olympic Oarsman

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Steve Redgrave, who was last week awarded a Lifetime Achievement in the Laureus World Sportsman of the Year awards as an Olympic gold-medallist in five consecutive Games, describes his life-long struggle with diabetes, colitis and dyslexia.

Full report at:

www.dyslexia-teacher.co.uk/t109.html

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Keep up to date with the latest dyslexia news headlines

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A useful page to add to your 'Favorites' is this Dyslexia Teacher page. Every time you log in, it picks up the latest newspaper headlines from their news agency about stories relating to dyslexic people and issues.

View the page at:

www.dyslexia-teacher.co.uk/newspage.html

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A young person's guide to dyslexia

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Sylvia Moody gives advice that may be helpful to any teenage dyslexic youngsters you know. As usual, she gives sensible advice based on her work with dyslexic adults.

View her article at:

http://dyslexia-parent.com/teenager.html

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Dyslexic adults coping with dyslexia

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The Dyslexia Adults Link has been collecting ideas and tricks from people visiting their website: methods people have invented for remembering left and right, such as slapping one hand, using a colored plastic report cover as a way of reducing the effects of Irlen Syndrome, remembering a person's name by associating it with a similar name (e.g. Alison sounds like 'Allinson's Bread', so we imagine Alison eating some bread), and so on . . .  It's a fascinating list!

www.dyslexia-adults.com/a6.html

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No cursive handwriting in North Carolina?

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I was genuinely shocked to hear from two parents that their North Carolina school system did not require children to write in cursive handwriting. It is well known that dyslexic children find spellings much easier to remember if the letters are linked together. They are often helped by 'writing' a spelling in the air ,with large arm movements as the letters link from one to the next. If anyone has any contact with the NC education authorities, could they please pass this on. Cursive handwriting is one of the best methods for helping dyslexic children build confidence in spelling.

www.dyslexia-adults.com/a6.html

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Next month . . .

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News of dyslexic artist Mike Juggins' new article on twin-track schooling for dyslexic pupils.

Best wishes!

John Bradford.
And everyone at

www.worldofdyslexia.org
www.dyslexia-teacher.co.uk
www.dyslexia-adults.com
www.dyslexia-parent.com
www.dyslexia-test.com
www.dyslexia-magazine.com
www.dyslexia-journal.com