Marten, I would like to introduce you to Marilyn Hagle (CCed). She is active at the intersection of dyslexia and technology based education tools.
She has recently written a grant to set up a pilot for researching and using sugar as a platform for helping kids overcome or adapt to their dyslexia. david On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Marten Vijn <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 2009-09-21 at 12:17 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 09:56, Marten Vijn <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 09:34 +0200, Marten Vijn wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> I am not a dyslexia expert, maybe a bit more that average. >> >> >> >> idea 1 >> >> Today I read in a newspaper that it helps people >> >> to let them hear what they (words not the characters). >> > __________________________^ type* >> > >> > *Actually I do knwo a lot about dyslexia, like that is really annoying >> > not being capable to write normal emails without make errors. >> > No patches seem to be availible. >> > >> > Training young kids _in time_ prevents a lot frustration, dropouts from >> > school and waste of very creative talented kids. >> > >> > My son would have a > 50% change of being born with it too. So having >> > having a good educational toolset seems important. >> >> Wonder if we could involve on this an existing dyslexia organization? >> > good idea. > > http://books.google.nl/books?id=pLvC1kKUWTkC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=audio > +feedback > +dyslexia&source=bl&ots=iMn_I_8efu&sig=CQhPMzM15_twYh43WTSbKP6qbmM&hl=nl&ei=DlO3Sru8KI_E-QavmsXcCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5#v=onepage&q=&f=false > > http://www.springerlink.com/content/r33873h07n78j722/ > > > > mmm, > I 'll keep it on my list for dutch researchers. Not If I will to > sucseed. > > I never know who am talking to tomorrow.... :) > > cheers, > Marten > > >> Regards, >> >> Tomeu >> >> > cheers >> > Marten >> >> >> > >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > -- >> > Marten Vijn >> > linux 2.0.18 OpenBSD 3.6 FreeBSD 4.6 >> > http://martenvijn.nl >> > http://opencommunitycamp.org >> > http://wifisoft.org >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >> > >> >> >> > -- > Marten Vijn > linux 2.0.18 OpenBSD 3.6 FreeBSD 4.6 > http://martenvijn.nl > http://opencommunitycamp.org > http://wifisoft.org > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
