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Study Shows How Reading Skill Shapes More Than Just Reading

Reading Is Everything

Buffalo.edu: 3.15.2021 by Bert Gambini

“These findings floored me. They elevate the value and importance of literacy by showing how reading proficiency reaches across domains, guiding how we approach other tasks and solve other problems.”

A UB researcher’s recent work on dyslexia has unexpectedly produced a startling discovery that clearly demonstrates how the cooperative areas of the brain responsible for reading skill are also at work during apparently unrelated activities, such as multiplication.

Though the division between literacy and math is commonly reflected in the division between the arts and sciences, the findings suggest that reading, writing and arithmetic, the foundational skills informally identified as the three R’s, might actually overlap in ways not previously imagined, let alone experimentally validated.

“These findings floored me,” says Christopher McNorgan, the paper’s author and an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology. “They elevate the value and importance of literacy by showing how reading proficiency reaches across domains, guiding how we approach other tasks and solve other problems.

“Reading is everything, and saying so is more than an inspirational slogan. It’s now a definitive research conclusion.”   READ MORE ➤➤

 

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8 Tips For People With Learning And Attention Issues To Succeed At Work via Forbes

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8 Tips For People With Learning And Attention Issues To Succeed At Work

Forbes: 5.09.2018 by Denise Brodey

If you ask David Flink, founder and chief empowerment officer of Eye to Eye, how the national organization that mentors students with learning and attention issues nabbed a spot in the Top 10 Nonprofits to Work For in 2018, he’ll tell you without hesitation, it’s the people they hire. “They have a strong work ethic and a huge amount of creativity, curiosity and empathy, says Flink. “I’d say they also all have a deep understanding of our mission and why teamwork is essential.” That’s a long list of qualifications for an ideal job candidate anywhere, at any level. I ask him how he fills the ranks.

“It’s simple: We hire a lot of people with learning and attention issues,” says Flink. “It’s a point of pride at Eye to Eye that we are run by and for the 1 in 5 people who learn differently.” I can hear the smile in his voice when he says that. Flink, who has dyslexia and ADHD, has spent years thinking about how people think. He then built a nonprofit that serves people who learn differently and also employs them. The organization’s vision is to create a world in which people with learning differences and ADHD are fully accepted, valued and respected—not just by society, but by themselves. Eye to Eye pairs middle school students with a high school or college mentor who also has a learning difference. It's an empowering social-emotional intervention that helps participants become leaders and ambassadors of the brand. They learn to live free from second thoughts or worry and are ready, able and eager to apply their unique strengths to their chosen career.

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The Eye to Eye team has great advice for people who want to make the most of their strengths, work collaboratively, succeed and lead in the workplace. Here are their top tips:

1. Have Conversations—Lots Of Them, About How Your Team Works.

Get to know the people around you. Give it time.

2. When People Ask For A Change At Work, Just Say Yes.

The likelihood is it’s not going to be that expensive to implement. Some people need to take more breaks. Others work best when they can use apps, everything from a $1.99 app for white noise or programs that check sentence structure and spelling.

3. Never Underestimate The Power Of Community.

When people feel understood, they do a better job. In some places, you may feel like an outlier; not every job is for every person.  READ MORE >>