Stacy M. Portillo PA299 – Post Interview Memorandum August 18‚ 2013 TO: File FROM: Polly Paralegal DATE: August 18‚ 2013 RE: Client interviews with Mary Smith (mother) and Shayla Smith (minor child) on August 12‚ 2013 This is a case involving injuries sustained by Shayla Smith‚ a 10 year old girl‚ who was injured while swimming‚ unsupervised‚ with her friend Tamara. The girls were swimming in the pool at the O&D Campgrounds at 9:30 a.m. on April 30‚ 2010 Clients: Mary
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an easy about Dyslexia. Introduction of Dyslexia First of all‚ Dyslexia is generally defined as a form of learning disability disorder that patient is impaired to understand written language but not caused by low intelligence or brain damage. Its symptoms are: slow reading and writing; inability of spelling; bad perform in academic tasks‚ but has at least average intelligence. Thus it is generally difficult to detect this LD(learning disability) in early age. Cause of Dyslexia There are three
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Dyslexia One out of ten children in America suffers from dyslexia. This affliction may go unnoticed to society‚ but for the victims living it‚ it’s an everyday struggle. In this essay we’re going to discuss what dyslexia is and what causes it‚ the symptoms‚ and how people with dyslexia cope with their disorder. Dyslexia is a learning disability mostly found in children. Most people with dyslexia find out that they have the disorder early on in childhood‚ about five to nine years old‚ and it becomes
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Dyslexia has long been a controversial issue. This essay will discuss‚ what Dyslexia is‚ the different types‚ recognition of dyslexia‚ the process of assessment‚ a leaners response to the diagnosis and its benefits. It will consider some of the more general problems encountered with dyslexic learners in further education ie. Dyslexic learners need to feel involved in the process of learning‚ and to understand the how and why of what is being taught. I will also examine who suffers and why?. I have
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Dyslexia is a specific reading disability due to a defect in the brain’s processing of graphic symbols. Dyslexia is a learning disability that alters the way the brain processes written material. Dyslexia is impaired reading ability with a competence level below that expected on the basis of the person’s level of intelligence‚ and in the presence of normal vision‚ letter recognition‚ and recognition of the meaning of pictures and objects. History It is important to have some knowledge about the
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Essay Dyslexia Dyslexia is a severe mental disorder which deals with a person having difficulties learning. This medical syndrome occurs in all ethnicities and age groups. Dyslexia is not all about low intelligence‚ and a lot of people with dyslexia are very creative and gifted like prodigies. Around 15% of United States population is affected by learning disorders and the numbers are drastically increasing. One of the main causes of Dyslexia has to do with Genetics and two popular symptoms are
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MODULE 2: RESEARCH ARTICLE CRITIQUE Vandana G. Kotapally Grand Canyon University: SPE 557 04/25/2012 Abstract Causes of dyslexia or reading disabilities have been hotly debated by researchers and educators. Knowledge regarding the causes of reading disabilities is important as they define the strategies that will used to help students with dyslexia learn. Dyslexia is caused by differences in the information processing patterns of learning disability students. Language and phonological skills
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Dyslexia is a commonly known disability for children. Dyslexia is a disability that affects the reading‚ writing‚ spelling‚ and as well as sometimes speaking (Lapkin 1). Children‚ adults‚ and whomever else who has this disability also suffer from being able to link up sounds with some letters together to form words. However‚ dyslexia is not a vision problem nor does it affect the intelligence (many people with dyslexia have an average or above- average level). Dyslexia is not curable but in fact
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wrote several books including the Pulitzer Prize winning collection of poems called Failure. He was invited to Collin College to present his recent book called My Dyslexia. He is a famous writer and poet who had realized he had dyslexia at the age of 58 when his own son was diagnosed with dyslexia disorder. In his book‚ called My Dyslexia he wrote how he was failed during his life beginning from his early school years. He explains the pain and confusion he carried all the time without being aware
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The term dyslexia has appeared in 1887. It was introduced by a German physician Rudolf Berlin. He used the term to refer to the case of a boy who had disorder in reading and writing; The term dyslexia was formed from the Greek word "dys" - meaning the absence of something‚ and Greek word „lexis" - speech. Dyslexia is characterized by difficulty with learning to read and write despite normal or above-average intelligence. Here we can see 4 types of dyslexia; First is Visual dyslexia It is a
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