Tuesday, July 31, 2012

READING AND POOR WRITING PROBLEMS FOR DYSLEXIC CHILDREN

How Is Dyslexia Treated?
It helps to identify dyslexia as early in life as possible. Adults with unidentified dyslexia often work in jobs below their intellectual capacity. But with help from a tutor, teacher, or other trained professional, almost all people with dyslexia can become good readers and writers. Use the following strategies to help to make progress with dyslexia.
Expose your child to early oral reading, writing, drawing, and practice to encourage development of print knowledge, basic letter formation, recognition skills, and linguistic awareness (the relationship between sound and meaning)...................
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HANDWRITING PROBLEMS- DYSGRAPHIA

How is Dyslexia Identified?
Trained professionals can identify dyslexia using a formal evaluation. This looks at a person's ability to understand and use spoken and written language. It looks at areas of strength and weakness in the skills that are needed for reading. It also takes into account many other factors. These include family history, intellect, educational background, and social environment.............
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DYSLEXIA SYMPTOMS IN CHILDREN

What are the Warning Signs?

The following are common signs of dyslexia in people of different ages. If you or someone you know displays these signs, it doesn't necessarily mean you have a learning disability. But if troubles continue over time, consider testing for dyslexia.
Young Children.................
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DYSLEXIA PROBLEM IN CHILDREN & ADULTS

Dyslexia is impaired reading ability with a competence level below that expected on the basis of the person's level of intelligence, and in the presence of normal vision, letter recognition, and recognition of the meaning of pictures and objects.
As with other learning disabilities, dyslexia is a lifelong challenge that people are born with. This language processing disorder can hinder reading, writing, spelling, and sometimes even speaking.  Dyslexia is not a sign of poor intelligence or laziness. It is also not the result of impaired vision. Children and adults with dyslexia simply have a neurological disorder that causes their brains to process and interpret information differently....................
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Monday, July 30, 2012

5 best budget smartphones

Smartphones are all the rage but the top models can come with an eye watering price tag. So here’s our round-up of the best smartphones that you can buy for less than £150.
What is a smartphone?
Smartphones can connect to the internet, run apps and perform the basic feature phone tasks such as playing media and taking photos. You can now pick up a decent model for around £150, or free on a contract of about £15 a month.............
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Windows 8 Bluetooth keyboards and mice announced

With new mice and keyboards, Microsoft Hardware turns its attention to mobile input devices for Windows 8 and Windows 8 RT.
Microsoft's hardware division is working overtime ahead of the launch of Windows 8: not only has it produced the Surface tablets and their clever keyboard-cum-cover, but it has just taken the wraps off a series of new mice and keyboards.
Back on familiar ground - Microsoft has a far longer history producing input devices than any other form of hardware - the Wedge Mobile Keyboard and Wedge Touch Mouse are, as the names possibly suggest, designed for use with the Surface for Windows 8 or Surface for Windows.............
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Firmware update for MacBook Air adds Power Nap, fixes

Even though Power Nap was one of the features Apple talked about post-release of their next-gen OS Mountain Lion, which was released two days ago now, it was missing from the release itself.
PowerNap allows the system to save energy by maintaining Sleep mode but still allow the system network access for updates and synchronization, as well as allowing backups to happen in the background. This feature is only available on the 2011-2012 MacBook Air systems and in the MacBook Pro with Retina Display; however, these systems did require a firmware update to use the new feature.............
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