• Entrepreneurs and people with dyslexia develop psychological resilience through adversity.
• Psychological resilience is a process supported by traits such as optimism and self-control.
• Parents can help children develop resilience through challenging yet manageable tasks.

Read More: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unlocking-language/202410/do-you-have-the-entrepreneurial-spirit

Cultivating Cognitive Diversity Benefits Everyone: Exploring Nonverbal Strengths in People with Dyslexia.  Despite today’s rapid growth of scientific and technological knowledge, truly innovative activity is actually declining. Here, we distinguish between innovations that augment existing streams of knowledge versus innovations that disrupt them. The latter renders the old obsolete and propels science and technology forward in unexpected, new directions.

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WRGB – The International Dyslexia Association estimates the learning disorder affects roughly one in five people. For young students, it can have a negative impact on learning, especially as schools continue to face a shortage of special education teachers. Could artificial intelligence (AI) be part of the solution? Dysolve is an AI program for dyslexia and language-related learning disorders. Through games students play on a laptop or other device, the algorithm tailors itself to each student’s unique situation. Read more:  AI Program from Dysolve could help ease teacher shortages & burnout

• The language we use to talk about language-based AI may set expectations beyond current capabilities.
• Conversely, other forms of AI have exceeded expectations by resolving previously intractable problems.

Read More:  https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/unlocking-language/202408/how-we-talk-about-ai-is-important-a-case-study

Dyslexia is notoriously difficult to diagnose. Experts estimate the learning disability, which makes it hard to read and understand language, affects between 5 and 20% of children. Coral Hoh is a linguist and CEO of Dysolve, a company based in Lagrangeville, New York that creates generative AI-based programs designed to address dyslexia.

Hear the Podcast:  Can Generative AI Help Treat Dyslexia?

Read More:  How a New York company uses AI to diagnose and treat dyslexia

When someone has difficulty learning to read, she has dyslexia. Dyslexia is due to inefficient language processing in the brain. Other language functions — speaking, listening comprehension and writing — may also be affected.

Here are some things to look for:

• Speech – difficulty pulling up the right word to say
• Listening comprehension – difficulty retaining and carrying out oral instructions
• Reading – difficulty recognizing simple, common words like this and that
• Writing – difficulty spelling simple, common words

Read More:  Strategies: Understanding and accommodating dyslexia

A few years ago, 18-year-old Truly Heft was diagnosed with dyslexia after struggling with reading and comprehension while being home-schooled. So her family sought help from private tutors, one of whom suggested that they try an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered software program called Dysolve AI, created by Coral Hoh, a clinical linguist and CEO of EduNational, LLC. Read More: Dysolve AI, an artificial intelligence–powered software program, can help children with dyslexia improve their reading skills.

As the U.S. spends billions on education, outdated dyslexia screening and intervention methods leave most students underserved. New York has a chance to lead by embracing A.I. to cut costs and improve outcomes.

Read More:  New York’s Dyslexia Bill:  How A.I. Can Transform Special Education and Save Billions

We are all stakeholders here because of the cost of dyslexia to society when large numbers are incarcerated with high recidivism.  Since our firm launched our AI program for dyslexia, we’ve been fielding queries from diverse segments of society. One man asked whether his friend could use our web-based program even though he had no Internet access. We suggested various places with free Wi-Fi. The man’s response: his friend was in California State Prison.   Read More: The AI Solution to Dyslexia in Prison