Dyslexic students learn to read with whiteboards, colored cards

Former British Education Secretary Ruth Kelly provoked fury when she decided to send her nine–year–old son to a private school because she lacked confidence in local state schools to deal with his dyslexia. Now, a pioneering project at a primary school in Plymouth may spare other parents the same agonizing decision. The 200-pupil Widewell School introduced a pilot project four years ago, in which children are given whiteboards to write down words spoken out phonetically by their teacher and shown to them on colored cards. The cards and the black-on-white representation of the word on the whiteboard are said to aid the memory. Read more about it at The Independent online edition.