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  2. Management of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Management of dyslexia depends on a multitude of variables; there is no one specific strategy or set of strategies that will work for all who have dyslexia. Some teaching is geared to specific reading skill areas, such as phonetic decoding; whereas other approaches are more comprehensive in scope, combining techniques to address basic skills ...

  3. Alternative therapies for developmental and learning disabilities

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    In the U.S. CAM is used by an estimated 20–40% of healthy children, 30–70% of children with special health care needs, and 52–95% of children with autism, and a 2009 survey of U.S. primary care physicians found that more of them recommended than discouraged multivitamins, essential fatty acids, melatonin, and probiotics as CAM treatments ...

  4. Language-based learning disability - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia is a common language-based learning disability. Dyslexia can affect reading fluency, decoding, reading comprehension, recall, writing, spelling, and sometimes speech and can exist along with other related disorders. [15] The greatest difficult those with the disorder have is with spoken and the written word.

  5. Dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    3–7% [ 2][ 5] Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK [ 6]) that affects either reading or writing. [ 1][ 7] Different people are affected to different degrees. [ 3] Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the ...

  6. List of alternative therapies for developmental and learning ...

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    Physiotherapy and occupational therapy for learning disabilities; Pilates; Yoga; Zero Balancing; Dietary treatments. additive-free diets; Antifungal medication; Ayurvedic medicine; B6-magnesium treatment; Chelation therapy; fatty acids; Feingold Diet; food allergies, multiple chemical sensitivities (diet base)

  7. Dyslexia support in the Republic of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    In the Republic of Ireland, people with dyslexia, especially school children, can benefit from a range of support techniques including additional one-to-one literacy support from specialist teachers, [1] computer tools with text-to-speech, spelling correction and word prediction; coloured glasses, and many other methods. [2]

  8. Characteristics of dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia. Dyslexia is a disorder characterized by problems with the visual notation of speech, which in most languages of European origin are problems with alphabet writing systems which have a phonetic construction. [1] Examples of these issues can be problems speaking in full sentences, problems correctly articulating Rs and Ls as well as Ms ...

  9. History of dyslexia research - Wikipedia

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    In 1975, the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act of 1975 (PL 94–142) defined learning disability as a "disorder in one or more of the basic psychological processes involved in understanding or in using spoken or written language, which may manifest itself in an imperfect ability to listen, think, speak, write, spell or ...