Re: [school-discuss] Dyslexic children - thanks

[Marilyn Hagle <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow.  Great information from sites I have never heard of before.  Wow.

The focus of our work involves modifying the EeePC (or netbooks in general) to
be useful tools for dyslexic kids.  We purchased an EeePC/linux version for our
10 yr old last Winter and that already has many features we are looking for - 
  * audio books and audio textbooks
  * text-to-speech on web browsing
  * typing tutor (needs ktouch though)
  * voice recognition
  * Tux Paint
  * Word processing
  * Skype

Once the software has been tweaked, then we work with the kids and their
teachers to develop useful procedures.  A parent group is important.  In our
case, our children would never have been diagnosed had we not taken them for
testing ourselves.

Phase II would involve dyslexic friendly coursework and the
highschoolcourseexchange.org idea.

Thank you so very much!!!

Marilyn

Quoting David Farning <dfarning@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

> It has been my dyslexia which has lead me to volunteer full time at
> www.sugarlabs.org.  While the Sugar Learning Platform still has a long
> way to go, it appears to be the best platform for developing
> activities ( activities.sugarlabs.org ) which help meet the needs of
> dyslexic learners.
> 
> FWIW, writing tools, such as gmail, which allow me to type rather than
> write longhand and have automatic spell checking have changed my life.
> 
> david
> 
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Vedran Vucic<vedran.vucic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > hello,
> >
> > I will screen thgem. I guess thre should not be jokes about someone
> > who is dyslexic.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > vedran
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Stephen Downes<stephen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> Hiya,
> >>
> >> Maybe you want to screen the feeds a bit better. I had a look at the
> >> aggregator and one of the first feeds I found was "Funny Bar Room Jokes -
> >> Dyslexic - Funny Jokes"
> >>
> >> -- Stephen
> >>
> >> Vedran Vucic wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I created three RSS feed aggregators that may be helpful for you:
> >>
> >> http://moj-blog.org/disab
> >>
> >> http://moj-blog.org/pediatrics
> >>
> >> http://moj-blog.org/education
> >>
> >>
> >> They aggregated a thousnds of posts. Some of them have audio podcasts
> >> too (disab and pediatrics....)
> >> Please feel free to ask if you need more help.
> >>
> >>
> >> Best wishes,
> >>
> >>
> >> Vedran Vucic
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Raghu<raghunandanhegde@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Marilyn,
> >>
> >> Not sure if this will help, but here's a site which speaks about software
> >> for dyslexics.. http://www.ghotit.com/home.shtml
> >>
> >> And here's a media comment about the site...
> >>
>
http://www.israel21c.org/bin/en.jsp?enDispWho=Articles^l2602&enPage=BlankPage&enDisplay=view&enDispWhat=object&enVersion=0&enZone=Technology&;
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Raghu
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:05 AM, Mark Rogers <mrogers59@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Marilyn,
> >>
> >> I don't have dyslexic children but I am dyslexic and work with dyslexic
> >> adolescents. What is your project about?
> >>
> >> Take care,
> >> Mark
> >>
> >> ~ I'm Mark Rogers and I approved this message.
> >>         * Paid for by Friends of Rogers®
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Marilyn Hagle
> >> <marilyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> Good morning!
> >>
> >> Do any of you have dyslexic children? Â I am currently working on a
> >> project
> >> regarding useful technology for students with dyslexia.
> >>
> >> Both of my kids are dyslexic.
> >>
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> :)
> >>
> >> Marilyn
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >>
> >> Stephen Downes  ~  Research Officer  ~  National Research Council
> Canada
> >>
> >> http://www.downes.ca  ~  stephen@xxxxxxxxx         __\|/__ Free
> Learning
> >
> 


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