Academic Remediation

The UK's Specific Language Disability Awareness Campaign

Professor Dorothy Bishop, a founding member of RALLI, explains why we're launching this campaign and why more has to be done to identify Specific Language Impairment (SLI). We also hear from young people about how language difficulties affect their lives and about their hopes for the channel.

 

Watch the videos: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sh0pEex81Gw&list=UU5J2oZIiKfB4VG0Zq_xabUA&index=0&feature=plcp

Using Mobile Screens To Make Reading Easier For Dyslexics | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation

Using Mobile Screens To Make Reading Easier For Dyslexics | Co.Exist: World changing ideas and innovation.

When Dr. Matthew Schneps needs to read, he turns to his iPhone 4S. The handset’s 3.5-inch screen squeezes text into one skinny column, which is helpful because the Harvard astrophysicist has dyslexia. Schneps finds the repackaged text easier to focus on, allowing him to better absorb everything from news articles to books to technical papers.

Before Schneps discovered this tactic, he had given up reading books and struggled to parse the scientific proposals and papers he encountered as an academic. Reading felt "overwhelming," he says. Now Schneps is bringing his method to a broader audience. Backed by the National Science Foundation and a Youth Access Grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, he and several other researchers from the Laboratory for Visual Learning at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics are investigating whether people with dyslexia benefit from reading on handheld devices with small screens.