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Dyslexia Awareness Across the World

Over recent years in the UK, the main focus for dyslexia has been to create awareness and new support in many different ways. However, is this the case in other countries? How does the language you are reading in affect dyslexia? The English Language is called irregular orthography. This means the same combinations of letters don’t always sound the same. Could this lead to there being more people, who have English as their first language, being dyslexic because of the complexity of our language? According to an article in the BBC news, dyslexia exists across many nationalities but research has...

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The Importance of Being Aware of Dyslexia

Dyslexia comes in many shapes and forms. Each person who has dyslexia will be affected in a different way, whether it’s an issue with processing speed, short term memory or their spelling and reading. With dyslexia occurring in at least 1 in 10 people, affecting more than 700 million children and adults worldwide, it is an important issue to understand. Every person with dyslexia has a specific underlying, neurological cause of their learning difficulty.  For people who have dyslexia it is all about knowing how to cope and which different learning techniques work for them. It is so important for...

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