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Celebrity Chef Rick Stein will be among those competing in a Fun Run to raise funds for the Dyslexia Research Trust (DRT) in the Oxford University Parks on Saturday 19th May.
The Trust will be holding a Family Fun Day and two Fun Runs, with refreshments, music and interesting stalls and activities for all the family, to help generate vital funds for the DRT’s research and clinics.

ADT wishes Catherine Black a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY on the 28th March. She will be celebrating the occasion twice.

Dyslexia friendly teaching is the most effective way of teaching not just those with dyslexia but all children. There are very few children who cannot be taught to read, yet currently 26% of children are leaving primary school without achieving expected levels of literacy which often leads to social costs.  

The human visual system is one of the most complex, subtle and sophisticated engineering feats that has been produced in the biological world.

Its accuracy of perception in small scale work is better than any normal measuring device such a ruler or dividers can achieve. For instance, you can at once see the very slightest misalignment of a letter in a line of text.

ADT member Oliver West will be delivering a series of specific strategies from his Footnotes Visual Thinking Program in London on 19th and 20th January 2011. The program has been developed over the past fifteen years drawn from his experiences as a dominantly visual, multi-layered thinker and as a practitioner within the field of educational and behavioral support. This series of workshop sessions will equip those wanting to open up the world of personalised strategies for living and learning in an ever changing and challenging society.

The play, performance ethnography, sees the protagonist growing up in a prodigiously academic environment as a chronic dyslexic, when the word for the most part didn’t exist. Being dyslexic, or as he is led to believe a thick and stupid slag, isn’t an entirely negative affair. 

The Working Mans College has now developed a programme of courses for creative glass practice. This will include stained glass, kiln formed glass, use of enamels, lustres, etching and  sandblasted techniques. Courses run every Tuesday.
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AchieveAbility and ADT have received endorsements from the Olympics for their creative concept to deliver a project in Schools in East London. The project will encourage visual learning and communication skills for young people who might be Dyslexic. The workshop will be led by ADT and AchieveAbility professional artist: Emma Elliott, Stephen Garrett, Beatrice Cofield, Adam Graddon, Katherine Hewlett, Asli Ahmet and Leon Coles.