Technology and technique - Dyslexia

Today with David, doing a job for interest not £. Future no DLA or ILF for those who need it. Not me but many, many others... funny he said of the 100 or so dyslexics he had met, they were not people who could work in a call centre. Need bigger picture.

For now, I get this. I am lucky. Inspiration - ideas and thoughts and then into word. Read and write read back for proofing or large articles?

1. Google timeline - Do you usual search. Subject 'surrealism' and then press 'TImeline'gives all info 1910 to 2010 and peaks and troughs of info. Each one can then be clicked on for more info.
2. Books which are now copyright free. Project Gutenberg
3. Preview programme - To capture a screen shot - FILE - Take Screen Shot (Jpeg)
4. Inspiration programmes - check templates for variety of thinking - goes into a presentation (no live links) - or word doc
5. Word - Bibliography. Go to VIEW - Citations - on Insert = bibliography.
6. Youtube - Consider using words 'lecture' or 'tutorial' for use to find discussions or how to.
7. I player - 'In our time' All of Melvyn Brag interviews of 5 years? online all sorts of subjects with at least 2 others, often academics.

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Dys - Needs assessment tomorrow

Ahhh and I haven't thought about it. What do I need? What would make a difference? Don't know, do know..

This was interesting though - Management of dyslexia

"Especially for undergraduates, some consideration of what 'reading' is and what it is for can be useful. There are techniques (reading the first sentence [and/or last] of each paragraph in a chapter, for example) which can give an overview of content. This can be sufficient for some purposes. Since stress and anxiety are contributors to a dyslexic's weaknesses in absorbing information, removing these can assist in improving understanding. When a dyslexic knows that not every reading experience must be onerous, it greatly helps their mental approach to the task.

e best approaches acknowledge that the objective in helping to improve a dyslexic's 'reading' is not to 'read-like-a-non-dyslexic-does', but to find a way of extracting information from text that works efficiently for someone who processes such information differently from the majority."

And then some of the crappy news: Students on the breadline - waiting for DSA

1. Proofing, planning, how to read when I forget things in seconds..
2. Scanning
3. Organisational skills
4. Software and person to person instruction on software
5. Hardware?
6. Print and photocopy

Scribbles on the Proposal