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Working to remediate Stealth Dyslexia 2 Replies

Started by Stacy Frank. Last reply by Stacy Frank 21 hours ago.

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Tutor for People with Dyslexia 1 Reply

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Dyslexic Writers
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ABC's of Teaching Reading
The Dyslexia-Friendly Classroom
Dyslexia Strategies
Lindamood Bell Programs
LIPS Categories of Letter Sounds
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Visual Crowding & Dyslexia
Writing
Stealth Dyslexia
The Writing Problems of Visual Thinkers

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Resources List from our Gifted / 2E Webinar

Day 1: Understanding Gifted Children

Intellectual ability and cortical development in children and adolescents (paper in pdf)

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Welcome to the Dyslexic Advantage Community!

Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide

Our Mission: Although many people think of dyslexia as just a reading problem, dyslexia provides many cognitive advantages that enable individuals to excel in tasks and occupations that require creative problem solving and big picture thinking.

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Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide are authors of The Mislabeled Child and experts in the fields of dyslexia, giftedness, and twice-exceptionality. They have a national referral practice seeing children with learning differences.

From the Eides at Amazon.com:

The Mislabeled Child
Dyslexia and Writing Challenges in Gifted Children (Webinar on DVD)
Visual Spelling: Homonyms

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Stacy Frank replied to Stacy Frank's discussion 'Working to remediate Stealth Dyslexia'

Thank you for your advice. I will look into all that you mentioned. I hope the day comes when the word, "writing," can be said without his eyes welling up. Enjoy your Thanksgiving, Stacy

21 hours ago

Drs. Fernette and Brock Eide replied to Stacy Frank's discussion 'Working to remediate Stealth Dyslexia'

Hi Stacy, Been busy and haven't had time to catch up with the forum. Many stealth dyslexics struggle with the organizational aspects of writing - how to narrow a topic how to organize an argument, how to elaborate etc. Some have liked some of th...

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Ellen Davison, molly and Sally Kidder Davis joined Dyslexic Advantage

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Lynette Kreidler replied to Lynette Kreidler's discussion 'BBC news report'

My teen and I were talking a bit about this article. She questioned whether this was like a blind person having improved hearing? I said that made sense. But then after thinking further and imagining a bit, it occurred to me that if problems with ...

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