Research 2
A few weeks ago, I visited one of the Dyslexia Learning Centre in Tampines with my group mates. It is a learning centre that help students who are dyslexic.
We interviewed the person-in-charge of the centre by asking them various questions. After the interview, I found out that they gave talks in school and public to spread the awareness of this disorder. They uses powerpoint slides to express the message and symptoms of dyslexia. Numerous ways of helping such students were also conveyed to them.
Events like Dyslexia Raising Awareness Week (DRAW) were held to promote the awareness of dyslexia as well. Other methods of promoting dyslexia are DAS formal Open House, placing posters in different libraries, bus stops and through school teachers who would help inform parents and students about dyslexia. During the open house, talks about dyslexia and how can it be cured are presented to the public. Symptoms are elaborated as well so parents are able to keep a look for these symptoms if their child is/are a patient of dyslexia.
Conference are being set up in November 2009 where various speakers were invited to give talks on dyslexia about the impact and difficulties that a dyslexic patient have to go through.
DAS also organize outings for dyslexic patients like visiting zoo, having picnic, etc. Such outing enables them to have a deeper bond with their family and interacting with other patients. DAS gather funds via the Lee foundation, Guan Yin Temple and Tote Board.
Last but not least, students who are suffering from dyslexia tend to be called names like “stupid”, “idiot”, “slow”, etc. They do not voice out to their teachers because they are afraid of letting their classmates know that they are suffering from such disorder.
John Hayes 02:33 on February 13, 2010 Permalink |
The quality of information about dyslexia on the web varies and often leaves unanswered questions.Some answers are hard to find on the web or are never searched because people don’t know they exist.As an example I often wondered how good is the reasearch for all the educational type interventions that claim to help all dyslexics and what are the details that should be included in a proper multi-sensory program? Are there any free programs,products or information that would prove to be important to know before I spend money on something to help?
In my travels around the web I have found some of the answers to the above questions and thought I would make a collection of links limited to the free products, services,programs and information that might be missed.The address to my collection of links is http://www.dyslexiaglasses.com/links .
My niche involves only the minority of dyslexics who actually have visual problems seeing text in a clear stable and uniform manner or have trouble seeing all partsof words called visual dyslexia and I do sell a product to remove those visual problems.The majority of dyslexics do not have visual problems that need correcting so I limit my marketing to those dyslexics that can describe their visual problems that make reading difficult. I don’t have any financial reason to sell my product to those who would not benefit as I offer a money back guarantee.