March is Reading Month
Welcome to our Community Literacy website where LITERACY resources are linked to the community.
Dyslexia is the most common learning disability. It is a brain-based condition that hinders a person's ability to read. It affects 1 of every 5 children, and it often goes undiagnosed. The brain can be re-trained and those with this condition can become successful readers.
Individuals with dyslexia process information in a different part of the brain than non-dyslexics. Those with dyslexia also tend to be creative and exhibit normal to high levels of intelligence. Signs of dyslexia include: difficulty with pronouncing words and rhyming words; letter and number reversals; slow, choppy reading; inability to sound out unknown words.
In Battle Creek, the Binda Dyslexia Center provides tutors after school for students in grades 1-8. The Center also can make presentations to area organizations. They recommend two websites for additional information:
www.brightsolutions.us
and
www.bartonreading.com
Contact the Center at (269) 966-4093. For more about the Center, click on 'Programs' in the main navigation bar on this site.
Additional information is available at: http://http://www.bindadyslexiacenter.org
posted 06/26/2008 [School]