Acknowledgements

This free course was written by Sarah Myhill and Patricia Covarrubia. Figure 3 and Video 1 were created by Dionysios Kyropoulos. Parts of the material were adapted from the earlier course DSE212_1 Understanding dyslexia.

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Figures

Figure 1: The left/right brain mastaka/Getty Images

Figure 2: Examples of visual disturbances experienced by some people with dyslexia © unknown

Figure 3: Courtesy: Dionysios Kyropoulos www.kyropoulos.com

Figure 4: An example of a RAN task for pictures Courtesy: Patricia Covarrubia

Table

Table 1: Frith’s framework (Adapted from Frith, 1999, p. 193) Frith, U. (1999) ‘Paradoxes in the Definition of Dyslexia’, Dyslexia, 5(4), pp. 192–214.

Video

Video 1: A visual introduction to neurodiversity Courtesy: Dionysios Kyropoulos

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