Under the headline “Study shows stronger links between entrepreneurs and dyslexia,” Brent Bowers of the International Herald Tribune reported that a survey of business leaders showed an unusually high proportion of them consider themselves dyslexic. Liz Ditz covered this story a couple of weeks ago, which is fitting given her recurring coverage of high-achieving dyslexics.
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Bernard Chang and colleagues, who study a rare genetic disorder called periventricular nodular heterotopia (PNH), have found evidence that points to a specific relationship between certain brain structures and dysfluent reading. People with PNH have difficulty reading fluently and their genetic disorder causes a known aberration in neural structure. Their fluency in reading is correlated with the degree of disorganization in their brains.
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Registration for the British Dyslexia Association Conference 2008 is now open. The meetings are 27-29 March 2008 at Harrogate International Conference Centre in Harrogate (Yorkshire, UK). It should be a worthwhile conference. There is a fine list of keynote presentations.
Dorothy Bishop, University of Oxford
Treating reading disability without reading: evaluating alternative intervention approachesBob Burden, University of Exeter
Dyslexia and Self-EsteemStanislas Dehaene, Research Director, INSERM
The visual word form area: the brain’s letterboxBarbara Foorman, Florida State University
Reading and Language InterventionUsha Goswami, University of Cambridge
Auditory Rhythmic Processing, Phonology and Dyslexia: A Cross-Language AnalysisBarbara Maughan, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Adult outcomesKate Nation, University of Oxford
Reading Comprehension ImpairmentsRichard Olson, University of Colorado
Genes and EnvironmentsCathy Price, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, UCL
Neuro-imaging studies of developmental dyslexiaJim Rose: Former HMI Director of Inspection, OFSTED
The Rose review on the teaching of early readingMargaret Snowling, University of York
Broader Phenotype of DyslexiaDavid Sugden, University of Leeds
Moving in the right direction: Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)Eric Taylor, Institute of Psychiatry, London
Attention DisordersRebecca Treiman, University of Washington
Learning to Spell in EnglishAryan van der Leij, University of Amsterdam
International Perspectives
Further details are available on the BDA conference Web site.
Sphere: Related ContentI’m happy to be home again, refreshed by having had the opportunity to spend time with so many fine folks in San Antonio (TX, US) while at this year’s fall meeting of the Division for Learning Disabilities. The folks who attended the sessions seemed happy to have had the chance to learn how to use evidence-based practices from the experts who conducted the workshops.
And, it was marvelous to have a chance to meet those experts:
- Kimberly Bright
- Yvonne Bui
- Judy B. Engelhard
- Steve Graham
- Shannon Gormley
- Anne Graves
- Susan Gurganus
- Karen R. Harris
- Mary Brindle
- Charles Hughes
- Erica Lembke
- Linda Mason
- Margo A. Mastropieri
- Kristen McMaster
- Rollanda O’Connor
- Susan Osborne
- Paul Riccomini
- Karen J. Rooney
- Laura Saenz
- David Scanlon
- Tom Scruggs
- Pamela Stecker
- William Therrien
- Nancy Cushen White
- Mitchell Yell
Thanks to all who participated. I’ll begin working with Rollanda O’Connor on next year’s meeting right away. We’ll be in Philadelphia next fall. Keep an eye on TeachingLD.org for more.
Sphere: Related ContentBridging the Gap between Research and Practice 2007, the annual conference of the Division for Learning Disabilities (DLD), is scheduled for next week in San Antonio (TX, US). There are many sessions about important topics (assessment, reading, written expression, etc.), all of which are presented in workshop format led by people widely respected as researchers and teacher educators.
Link to the DLD Website, TeachingLD, for more information about the conference. (I am, to be sure, interested in this conference because of my affiliation with DLD, but it is a worthwhile topic to mention here.)
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Self-concept in dyslexia over the years
Professor S. G. Ingesson interviewed Swedish teens and young adults who have dyslexia to learn about their educational experiences. His informants suggested a lot of interesting things to him. I was taken with one finding indicating that, as they aged, students reported differing feelings of well-being. Generally, they recollected that their feeling of well-being had been low during the elementary years. Even more reported feeling uncomfortable in the middle school years, but as they got older they got, they felt better, so that by their secondary years, the majority felt “good” or “very good.” In fact, in their last school years (ages 17–19 ) over 70% of the individuals reported that they felt “good” or “very good.”
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