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In Rhode Island, Reinventing Summer School to Prevent Kids' Learning Loss | PBS NewsHour | Aug. 20, 2012

In Rhode Island, Reinventing Summer School to Prevent Kids' Learning Loss | PBS NewsHour | Aug. 20, 2012 | Students with dyslexia & ADHD in independent and public schools | Scoop.it

In Providence, R.I., the Summer Scholars Program has reinvented summer school by taking lower income students out of the classroom and putting them "into the field." John Merrow reports on how the new approach gets students to practice skills they struggled with during the past year and prevent additional learning loss for fall.

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Unusual Talent: Leadership Skills of Dyslexic Entrepreneurs

Unusual Talent: Leadership Skills of Dyslexic Entrepreneurs | Students with dyslexia & ADHD in independent and public schools | Scoop.it

Professor Julie Logan shares new research about successful entrepreneurs who are dyslexic. Several common patterns were noted:

 

enjoyment working in teams communicate vision by 'painting in pictures' and telling stories talking to people and meeting face-to-face, persuasive abilities changing jobs if generating reports becomes a main focus of work delegate certain work and choosing partners who will complement you seeing the picture and using intuition to think out of the box ability to apply new knowledge, see potential

 

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Via Drs Fernette and Brock Eide at DyslexicAdvantage.com, Carolyn D Cowen
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