Spring 2012 THE DYSLEXIA FACTOR Waltham Forest Help line phone numbers 020 8520 1684/020 8520 7370 Dyslexia Association Email:
[email protected] Registered Charity: 802993 Welcome to the W.F.D.A. Sign our Petition! Find out about the latest news on dyslexia. Recent research by the World We’ve changed from red to blue, (red/pink can Literacy Foundation (January 2012) be hard to read for dyslexics), does it help? states that across the world, people Thank you to www.edufantastic.co.uk who who cannot read earn lower salaries helped us raise funds through selling our and can become more dependent on Xmas cards in their E17 toy shop. If you’ve governments. enjoyed reading this pass it onto friends and families so more people get to hear about us The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) suggests using dyslexia and what we’re trying to achieve! Adele Bird friendly teaching as the most effective way of teaching not just for those with dyslexia but all children. There are Don’t call me very few children who cannot be Stupid! taught to read, yet currently 26% of Kara Tointon — children are leaving primary school Eastenders and without achieving expected levels of Strictly Come Dancing literacy, this is unnecessary and leads star recently pre- to many awful social costs. sented a TV show The BDA has launched a petition to about how she copes the government requesting that with dyslexia (Don’t dyslexia training be provided as part call Me Stupid). of Initial Teacher Training. In the programme she 100,000 signatures are needed to finds out that her reading age is of a young trigger a debate in Parliament, so if child, “It was horrible, I felt physically you agree with this petition please sick.” One way to help her was using green- sign it, and even more importantly tinted reading specs.