Dyslexia Association Lebanon: 2014

Friday, September 26, 2014

Love Your Self Because Magasin Picture are Not true

I want to ~~be skinner.~~ Love Myself

Start to Love yourself now, because no one is going to love you if you don't Love yourself.

Something to think about...Give your self permission to love yourself! - See more at: http://viralwomen.com/post/photoshop_love_your_body_because_even_models_arent_real#sthash.xzxVgOtS.dpuf

Give yourself the premission to love who you're and your body.

Dyslexia symptoms infographic. Repinned by SOS Inc.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

The Certificate Scam

Lebanon's the country that have suffered from severely civil war, cannot event control a simple teacher manifestation.

The Lebanese educational system have see so many wars and every-time have emerged from the violence of these war largely intact and the government said to us that he cannot event control a bunch of teachers when our school was event able to do the baccalaureate in the war.

“Our children paid the big price for a crises they never wanted.” It's what is happening now.

Student from technical school now cannot event find a job because they still don't own a certificate of they competences, and grades.

Baccalaureate student cannot get scholarship from University because now every student are in the same level, people with excellent score more than 18/20 are at the same level of a student with a 12/20 in the baccalaureate exam, because of the fact that the exams are still not correct.

Student that desire to go study abroad are still in Lebanon waiting that the crises will be resolute, because no university abroad want a student with no certificate and some school ask form more than 15/20 in the baccalaureate result to be student their.

So they are there waiting carefully that their government do something for them or someone do something; just move a finger and help them.

Teacher without event realized it are not touching the right person by doing this because we see clearly that the government doesn't care about our children. They hurt student that have nothing to do with their salary problems.

Student are afraid that no one care about them and that they will have to paid the fault of someone else.

So from all the Student in Lebanon we ask both side to agree on something now and finally correct the exams so that the news generation can get the same chance you have when you were student at their place, a Certificate.

Friday, August 15, 2014

Ed Cooke said that Dyslexia is in an advantage in Memory Learning

Ed Cooke shows how his approach to memory can be helpful for all learners - but especially those, such as most Dyslexics, who think visually.

Most Asked Question

Many parents ask me on my blog, email, or Facebook the same question:

Does my child need to attend a special school for children with dyslexia? & What is available in Lebanon ?

You don't need special school but personally it depends on the school system. A parent needs to find out how much the school really understands dyslexia. How much does the special education / or normal education staff understand it along with their teachers. Then understand what unique aspects make up your child's dyslexia. This can make a difference between a child who is totally turned off by school or one who feels good about school.

Why Public School isn't good for Dyslexic Child?

1- Public school teachers, principals and staff are well-intentioned, but the system is broken. Most schools don’t have the resources to diagnose and treat dyslexics. Waiting for the school to test and treat your dyslexic child is a “race to the bottom” and an enormous disservice to your language-challenged child.
2 - Children with dyslexia do not “catch up” without specialized and explicit instruction. Such children don’t “just need a little extra practice” or a tutor; they need a specific type of teaching designed for the unique learning patterns of the dyslexic brain.
3 - Smart dyslexic students often treat every word as a sight word and memorize it, instead of using the word’s structure to decode and understand it. School reading assessments are unlikely to pick this up. Later, when these bright dyslexics are in middle and high school with dramatically increased reading and note taking demands, this memorization strategy will fail them.

If you don't want to put them in Special School or Private School there's always the Tutoring alternative.

In Lebanon there's not so many people special in Dyslexia and Dyslexic Child, the most reputated is Dr. Samar Riad Saab - The Owner of Impressive Minds- Psychologist & Specialised in Learning Difficulties. DAVIS® Dyslexia Correction Facilitato.

Website : http://www.impressiveminds.com/index.php?content=aboutus.html

Now about special School for Dyslexic in Lebanon ?

I'm sorry to announce to you that only one school in Lebanon offer proper alternative to Dyslexic people and this school is in Beirut, and the Tuition is ± $4,000/years so not affordable for everyone.

Sagesse High School (also known as Sagesse High School, Mary Mother of Wisdom).

Website : http://www.sagessehs.edu.lb/default.aspx

Their Special Education Unit serves the needs of students with learning difficulties (Dyslexia, ADD, ADHD). The curriculum is designed to give students the broadest possible education, whilst preparing them to further their education in their chosen college or university in Lebanon and abroad. Students are considered special needs students if they are diagnosed by an approved independent psychologist and the School's psychologist as having one of the following disabilities prior to admission, or if they are referred to the Special Education Unit by a Head of Division at a later stage:

Students with learning disabilities as defined by Lebanese law including: Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, ADD, ADHD, Epilepsy)
Students identified as slow learners (borderline IQ)
Students with psychomotor or speech difficulties

Monday, June 23, 2014

10 ways to use your College Degree

1. Fold it into a fan for those hot summer days.

2. Use it for fire fuel on chilly nights

3. Stuff it in a bottle and set it out to sea

4. Fold it into a paper airplane and throw it off the top of the nearest building

5. Roll it up and swat flies with it

6. Rip it into shreds and use it as confetti

7. Wrap last nights dinner leftovers in it

8. Fold it into a paper hat

9. Run out of toilet paper? No problem!

10. Or, you could use it to get a job in your field

11 Funny Facts about Job Hunting

1. Your College degree will not help you get a job in your field, you're better use it for a fire fuel on chilly nights, it's will be more useful.

2. Good job are already give to someone else, without opportunity for people to apply.

3. Same change for everyone don't exist.

4. 80% of available jobs are never advertised.

5. You need a car to get some job, and you need a job to get a car.

6. The average number of people who apply for any given job: 118. Twenty-percent of those applicants get an interview.

7. Entry Level now want 3-4 years of experiences.

8. Your Father name and your family is more important than your education and experience in job interview.

9. You'll turn down for much of the job you go in interview, because in reality they don't have any job available.

10. And finally you need experiences to get experience.

If you give up after that :

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Fashion Feminism 1, “Good Girl” Insecurities 0

This is an old story about my adventures in learning how to dress and feel like a grown woman and not a perpetual child, not really related to the topic of this blog: dyslexia. And I wanted to share it.

I wore my lacy little crop top out today- a tee shirt that is literally just woven lace and nothing else, thus it’s see-through- because it’s 99° out here. No way am I wearing an actual shirt. But I struggle with feeling comfortable in my top not only for body image reasons, but for etiquette reasons as well. I feel cute, but at the same time I worry that older members of the community will be offended by the fact that you can see my skin and my black bandeau, it’s all on display.

So I’m leaving my home to go see my Taita with some lemonade (because again, it is damn hot, and I wanna make little ice-cube lemonade pop in my mouth and I'm from Batroun) when I arrived my Taita a woman in her 60’s approaches and touches me on the shoulder. Did I drop something? Is my skirt up in the back? Is she going to scold me for showing my waist and letting my bra straps go uncovered?

And she smiles this big smile at me and says “Dear, that shirt is so cute!”

"Thank you!" I’m so relieved, "It was only five dollars, I think!"

"Well it’s lovely," she says, "don’t tell anyone that price! Pretend it cost more than it did!"

We talk and laugh. “Well,” I say, “It’s just too hot to wear anything more.”

"We should all walk around in bikinis," she says.

Made my damn day. :)

This is not my Taita just a pic like that

[Lebanon] Language Barriers Prevent Syrian Children from Attending School

"I want them to go to school, but it’s so far away. I can’t afford the cost of transport. It’s also difficult because here they speak French or English at school. My children won’t understand anything", explained Dima’s sister.

A critical problem facing Syrian children in Lebanon is that the education system uses French or English as the language of instruction, with Arabic only reserved for language courses and sometimes history lessons. Conversely, in Syria the education system is entirely in Arabic.

A rapid needs assessment carried out by the UN children’s fund in Lebanon (UNICEF) and Save the Children also cited language barriers as the principal obstacle for Syrians in Lebanon. The report found that most Syrians would like their children to learn either French or English as they see it as a “chance for upward mobility”.

In addition, the Lebanese education system is unable to cope with the influx of Syrians across the border. More than 160,000 Syrians are officially registered with the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) in Lebanon and a further 71,358 are awaiting registration. This number is increasing rapidly as up to 3,000 Syrians are crossing the borders daily to Lebanon, Turkey, Jordan and Iraq.

Lebanon in the top 10 country for the quality of is education

Lebanon have one of the best education systems in Math and Science in the World like The Economic Forum’s 2013 Global Information said so (here).

And when Senior Fellow Hafez Ghanem in this new podcast about learning in the Arab world says : "That more than half of Arab children are not learning".

We are one of the most educated country in the Middle East with 44% of University Graduated students.

This is something we must be proud about.

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Fact about Dyslexia: You can be dyslexic in one language but not another

So it turns out you can be dyslexic in one language but not another, depending on the kind of linguistic processing problem you have. For example, if you have trouble with phonemes, if can be hard to learn alphabetic writing systems like English, but easier to learn logo-graphic writing systems like Chinese. China has dyslexic people obvs, but they seem to have different stuff going on in their brain than English dyslexic people. Huh.

Body Language Secrets Everyone Must Know

Drop The But

I listen to everyone include myself, and realized that we tend to use the word but several times a days.

You’ll use the word to invalidate what you just said, as in: You did a great job, but… Or you’ll use the word to defend your actions, as in: I would have done that, but…

To defend yourself, (young children can use the word but like more than 5 times days just for this case).

When they do something wrong, they always try to defend themselves using the word ''but''. And they use this word as much as they can, like they can excuse anything with it.

For example let take a conversation with a kids that break a vase, and let call this kids Bod: Bod did you drop the vase on the floor? ''Yes, but, but, but, but, but, but,......'' Bod would say and instantly absolve himself of any responsibility.

It never their fault.

He never wanted to said I'm sorry.

He just use the word ''But'' to put the responsibility on someone else.

We need to take responsibility for our actions and stop using the word but to defend yourself.

Let imagine now the same situation with two adult in a car accident. One will said : ''yes the light was red but you were driving so fast'' and the other ''yes but you were passing on the red light''.

Stop using but to defend yourself and just take responsibility for your actions and said instead: ''I'm sorry, I past on the red light.'' or ''I'm sorry also I was driving to fast.''

But are also use to invalidate what you just said

When people say the word "but" after a sentence it's very demeaning and it's almost as if they recognize your statement and then throw it aside just as quickly.

For example, adding but after praise makes the praise feel less significant.

"You did great in the recital but next time try to speed up your tempo"

In order to reinforce the positivity and effort I would instead say:

" You did great in the recital. How about we try to work on speeding up your tempo and see what happens?"

When one, "drops the but" they are actually taking the time to recognize and hear what someone is saying which in turn makes the other person feel good. Even if they don't agree with that person, "dropping the but" still makes the person feel as if they have been genuinely heard.

Drop the But

You can start using the word “and” because the word “but” nullifies what you just said. e.g. “I did ten things on my to-do list, but I didn’t do the remaining five things”. Instead you could say: “I did ten things and I have five more to go. ”

So the next time you find yourself saying “but” pull out your forefinger and thumb.

Reach for your check, and tighten into a pinch. It's will help remember to stop using the word ''BUT''.

It's one of the best way to make your life a life without BUT.

Sunday, May 18, 2014

Stop George Clooney Mania

Myself as a feminist woman, I don't get this other women saying that they are proud of their nation because of the beauty of women. I don't want to be proud of my country because of the appearances of some women but because of the accomplishments of some strong personality.

My country doesn't need people to see it has a country that not created great body, but great mind. I want people to be proud of my country because men and women like this :

1.Keanu Reeves: Actor, The Matrix, was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1964.