Category: Dyslexia
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Potential Talent Lost to Society
According to the World Health Organization, approximately 10% to 15% of the world’s population has dyslexia, which is a common learning difficulty that can affect reading and spelling skills. This translates to roughly 700 million to 1 billion people globally who may struggle with reading and spelling to some degree. This figure does not include […]
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Reading & Spelling Difficulties Resolved
Sarah was diagnosed with a Specific Learning Difficulty / Dyslexia by an Education Psychologist in March ‘22. We didn’t know where to turn for help. Luckily a neighbour recommended Rita and the Wordsworth Learning Programme. I was a bit dubious before we started as I didn’t really believe much improvement could be made – how […]
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Will Augmented Reality improve learning outcomes for children with ADHD?
The AHA Project will involve 200 children in Ireland that have been diagnosed with ADHD. It will introduce new ‘Augmented Reality’ features into the new WordsWorthLearning programme, to make learning more fun and more interesting. We are looking for volunteers to try this exciting new way to teach reading and spelling – which we think […]
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Solving Literacy Problems – Case Study No.7
Having spent all of his early years in an Eastern European orphanage, Luke was adopted into an Irish family when he was nearly 4 years of age. As he progressed through the Irish educational system, he was eventually assessed in 5th year with a diagnosis of ‘Severe Specific Learning Difficulty / Dyslexia’. Luke’s parents […]
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Learn how to FIX Reading and Spelling problems
A one-day training course designed to give Speech & Language Therapists, Teachers, Tutors and SNAs a basic introduction and learn how to use the online WordsWorthLearning Program. A FREE 1 year licence is included in the package! The course will cover […]
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A tool for children and adults with dyslexia…..
The following description is included as part of the dyslexia course material on the Institute of Child Education and Psychology (ICEP Europe) website: “The WordsWorth Literacy Programme has been developed in Ireland by Rita Treacy, a speech and language therapist who specializes in working with children and adults with dyslexia. Originally offered as a private consultation service the programme […]
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English Words
At Stanford University, linguists wrote a program that would attempt to spell 17,000 English words by following common rules of spelling plus the exceptions to the rules. Three hundred and eight rules emerged. But the exception lists became too large to continue the project. Only one rule had no exception – there is no English […]
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New “Free Demo” coming soon….
You will be able to try a “Free Demo” of one of the many modules in the Programme from 29th February. Put it in your diary!
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Speech Sounds
WordsWorth starts at the pre-reading stage with speech sounds. Here’s a sample tutorial video from Level 1 of the Programme……….. level1_th-Th.