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		<title>Itching for Spring</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 04:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we await the turn of the season it is a time of pondering and planning.   Here is a collection called &#8220;Farmer&#8217;s Advice&#8221; offered to help with the pondering and planning.  The is especially fitting, as the farmer says, because &#8220;Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.&#8221;  Here&#8217;s hoping you&#8217;ve been able to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love Story?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month&#8217;s post  &#8220;Love Story&#8221; spoke of the wonder of our children and the fact that we entrust them to the institutions that make up our society from a very early age.  With that comes our responsibility to look outside ourselves to do the best we can for our loved ones.  This month&#8217;s heartfelt poem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A fun video on dyslexia fonts!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes it&#8217;s the fonts, sometimes it&#8217;s the background, and sometimes it the colors. Whatever it is that works, use it! This is an interesting video about a &#8216;dyslexic font&#8217;. A good way to spend a few minutes understanding how another perspective can always help.]]></description>
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		<title>Love Story</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 03:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s article speaks of entrusting our children to the institutions that are part of our society.  It begins innocently talking about the beauty of the little being we bring into the world and moves to the idea that our love story consists of zeniths and nadirs, and love necessitates &#8220;looking outward in the same [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long term effects of &#8216;phonics only&#8217; approaches leaves &#8216;cognitive footprint&#8217; of disadvantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:36:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How refreshing to have more research showing the limits of &#8216;doing things the same way over and over again and expecting different results&#8217;.  Here is more support for opening our minds to stepping outside of &#8216;word thinking&#8217; psyche so our &#8216;picture thinkers&#8217; can flourish.  Two studies of readers ranging from the age of 6 to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watch Sir Ken Robinson&#8217;s visual of the changing model of education as it is created</title>
		<link>http://thelearningoptions.com/2011/10/08/watch-as-this-visual-is-created-about-the-changing-model-of-education/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elsie</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sir Ken Robinson, world renowned creativity and education expert, constructs the history behind and story of the role of creativity that is a critical element of the wonderful dyslexic way of thinking.  Then you can connect to his website to continue to appreciate his most relevant point of view.]]></description>
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		<title>A healthy brain, the stretch zone and creatures of habit</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 02:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This New York Times article offers many perspectives about habits, our thinking and emotional systems about change, and the effect that perspectives in our culture and penchant for testing have on intellectual diversity. In a nutshell  (hopefully that nut is not our brain) a little change can have a huge influence.]]></description>
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		<title>Rotating Snakes and Understanding Disorientation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The wonder-full discovery Ron Davis made over thirty years ago that led to The Gift of Dyslexia revealed the idea of accurate perception to him as a way to understand his ability to see things in new ways and how that talent causes problems when working with symbols: letters and numbers for example.   The experiments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Writer Who Couldn&#8217;t Read</title>
		<link>http://thelearningoptions.com/2011/07/08/httpwww-npr-orgtemplatesstorystory-phpstoryid127745750pscprs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:03:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This NPR article The Writer who Couldn&#8217;t Read tells about an author who suffered a stroke, woke unable to read then regained reading from use of the motor part of brain.  Canadian novelist Howard Engel&#8217;s experiences of using the motor part of his brain to &#8216;see&#8217; found a way to remain a man of letters.   [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Penguin and the Peacock &#8211; embracing our differences</title>
		<link>http://thelearningoptions.com/2011/06/08/httpwww-simpletruths-coma-aspxmopeac-t2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 02:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rejecting the scarey and esteem deflating feeling of being &#8216;different&#8217; and traveling to the land of embracing our differences is something from which we all benefit.  Pure and simple, it is this idea that fuels the fire of my work with learning different individuals of all ages.  Respect yourself. http://www.simpletruths.com/a.aspx?mo=peac &#60;http://www.simpletruths.com/a.aspx?mo=peac&#38;t=2&#62; &#38;t=2]]></description>
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