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by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Education, Learning, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Social and Emotional, Teachers, Testing
When researchers compared high IQ and average test subjects in a learning paradigm, the results were surprising. In some areas high IQ individuals work less, as might be expected by the idea that higher IQ people have more efficient brains for learning tasks, but in... 
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | dyslexia, Teachers, Teaching
In our one of our Premium magazine issue, we wrote about the scientific basis of late blooming and why dyslexics students – and gifted dyslexic students in particular are likely to be this way. Shelley Wear, a long-time Dyslexic Advantage volunteer and teacher... ![[PREMIUM] The Dyslexic Professor](https://old.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/shutterstock_601253699.jpg)
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | Being Dyslexic, Famous People with Dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Teaching
Nigel Lockett is a seasoned academic, Associate Dean, Head of the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship, co-author of a popular entrepreneurship college textbook, award-winning teacher, and serial entrepreneur who recently embraced his dyslexia and began blogging as “The... 
by Dyslexic Advantage Team | | dyslexia, Spelling, Teachers
Great question. The degree of accommodations and or modifications should be individualized. SPELLCHECK Severely dyslexic students may need to dictate written work or keyboard work using spelling check. One favorite teacher of ours told us that she had a breakthrough... 
by Fernette Eide | | 504, Accommodations, Education, IEP, Language Arts, MIND strengths, Reading, Teachers, Writing
From the Connecticut Longitudinal Study, up to 1 in 6 students are dyslexic, but only a minority of these students will be found in special education classrooms. What does this mean for regular classroom teachers? 1. Get Basic Facts about Dyslexia – Dyslexic...
