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Higher Education for Learning Challenges
Many intelligent individuals have learning disabilities. These individuals need to learn how to tap into learning strategies which help them process, retain, and transfer knowledge and information. If you are an individual with a specific learning disability you are in the company of many prominent individuals. Famous people in all walks of life, from government to entertainment, have dealt with learning disabilities or dyslexia or ADD/ADHD: Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, dyslexia; fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, dyslexia; former NFL quarterback Terry Bradshaw, AD/HD; and Virgin Records CEO Richard Branson, dyslexia.
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Dyslexia Training Institute
To, Ti, Tom sag the sssooonnng, song, song to kid. Nathan was reading, Tom sang the song to the kids. Listening to Nathan read is painful. He struggles through one and two syllable words, he skips words like a, and, the, of, if, and at while ignoring punctuation. He reads with no expression and often can’t remember what he just read. His spelling is almost incomprehensible and illegible. He often spells pad either bad or pat. However, when you read something to him, he can tell you every detail and usually add his own commentary. He understands everything he hears and is very bright. He has a great verbal vocabulary and is creative – and he is about to go into the fourth grade reading at a first-grade level. So, why can’t he read? In one word, dyslexia.
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Harris Communications the Nationwide Retail
Source for Deaf & Hearing
Challenged Products
In the field of specialty products for the hearing impaired, Harris Communications is the nationwide retailer of assistive products for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people. Find vibrating alarm clocks, visual signalers, amplified telephones, sign language books & DVDs and more.
Clarity Amplified phones, Williams Hearing systems that block out background noise and enhance foreground hearing and attractive Vibralite vibrating watches and alarm clocks are among the adult focus products on Harris’ website.
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