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Triple jump at the Olympic Games

At the Beijing Olympic games seven jumpers went over 17 meters, a remarkable performance that makes one wonder who can win in London in 2012 and what distance the athletes can reach at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in 2016.

The only thing against best possible results may be they will jump at sea level in Rio as well as London. If the games will be held somewhere in the Andes next, in cities like La Paz or Lima, these athletes may jump over 20 meters.

Looking back one can’t but recall the incredible Viktor Saneyev of former Soviet Union who won the Olympic triple jump three times – in 1968, 1972 and 1976, and only missed his forth gold by five inches in 1980.

Jonathan Edwards of Great Britain dominated the event for a number of years and  still holds the World Record of incredible 18.29 meters, which is over 60 feet, and constitutes a phenomenal average of 6 meters plus per each hop, step and jump.

British track and field has his worthy follower in Phillips Idowu who placed second at the Olympic Games in Beijing with a jump of 17.62 meters. The event was won by Nelson Evora of Portugal who beat Idowu by mere 5 centimeters.

Brazil will certainly hope for their top triple jumper to shine at the Rio de Janiero Olympics. Jadel Gregório placed 6th in Beijing with 17.20 m, a fine jump and hard to believe that it was not enough for a medal.

Triple jump used to be an event that few non-track and field enthusiasts even noticed. At the Melbourne Olympic Games in 1956 the best of the filed jumped only over 15 meters. Today even women go over 15 meters and with the men’s World Record being over 18 meters and jumpers routinely going over 17 meters it is an exciting event to watch.

How to Find a Good Driving School

Reaching the ag of 17 in the UK entitles you to start driving. The cost of driving lessons are not cheap (but absolutely necessary), so you will want to ensure this money is wisely spent. Firstly, you will need to identify some local driving schools and ask suitable questions of them.

There are lots of directories on the internet specialising in listing driver training schools of all types. I located one that listed thousands of local driving schools throughout the UK so you will surely find some driving instructors that may or may not be suitable for you.

When you contact the driving instructors, you will want to be certain that they are fully qualified and not still training to be a driving instructor. You can tell this by the type of licence they hold which, must be displayed in the window of their training vehicle. A fully qualified driving instructor will have a green octagonal licence whereas a trainee will have a pink triangular licence.

Many driving instructors will offer you a discount on the price of your driving lessons by paying for more than one in advance. Some will also offer discounts based on your profession e.g. nurses, students etc. Be sure that you enquire about any possible discounts.

You do need to realise though that cheapest lessons are not always the best driving lessons and you could well end up taking far more driving lessons than you actually need thereby being more expensive overall. So, once you start your driver training, if for whatever reason you are not happy with your instructor, do not be afraid to try out another local driving school.

Some of these reasons could be a personality clash, shouting, turning up late, using the lesson time to stop off at shops/do errands, stopping to use their mobile (illegal whilst driving), a dirty (smelly!) car etc.

Let us not forget that you are the customer and spending your hard earned money and should therefore receive and expect a top level of courtesy, service and training.

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Auto Dialer Software is an Ideal Way to Multiply Your Firm’s Profits

Phone sales software is an ideal method to make best use of your time and your employees’ time when it comes to sales efficiency.

Your marketing division can be making sales calls and marketing for the firm and simultaneously be economizing a bunch of time and dollars.   Auto dialing software will be able to do exactly that and a lot more for your organization.

Read on to discover the advantages and benefits of phone sales software.  You will definitely learn precisely how you can begin profiting from this superb sales software.

Salespeople and small businesses that acquire their sales and profits by making sales calls and marketing by phone comprehend and value the importance of excellent time productivity.

Nonetheless there are still countless salespeople and small businesses that are still hand dialing their prospects’ telephone numbers and proceed to fritter away time each day by hand dialing phone numbers and other money wasting tasks.

Whenever you and your employees continue to perform all these unproductive tasks you are wasting loads of time and money as a consequence. If you or your sales team are going to market or sell by phone, then you better get going using phone sales software.

A great many auto dialing software systems allow you to generate scheduled times to call people or return their calls. This is a important feature that saves you time and money by automatically transferring telephone calls through to a customer service representative. This can enormously boost the amount of telephone calls they can deal with thanks to the fact the system does a lot of of the work for them.

An additional way to utilize an automatic dialer is to drastically increase the number of voice sales messages you can leave.

Since you are not manually leaving messages, getting fatigued, getting bored, etc., you’ll discover that the quality of the message is consistently high. Your voice sales messages are pre-recorded, perfectly scripted content, and of course in your own voice.

For additional information on auto dialing software, go to www.AutoDialingSoftware.net and learn about the a wide range of benefits of using phone sales software in your business.

How To Avoid A Nervous Breakdown Having Your Website Built!

Introduction

When I decided I needed a website for my business I had no idea of the very many processes involved. Like most people, I thought web design meant deciding on the graphics and the look of the pages and then by some magic it would all happen.
I have a friend who is in the business of web design and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) so I approached him for a quote. As a complete novice who is computer literate up to a point, I was amazed at the depth of initial questioning required to find out exactly what my requirements were.

I had no idea about the various aspects and the structure of the site and I found it mind blowing when I learned about the amount of work involved. So I thought other people would be interested to know more about this complicated process and I have asked my friend to supply the technical information for this article.

Stages in the Process

Target Audience

Before building a website there are important questions to consider. I was asked who would be my target audience. Who are my customers likely to be? Would they be children, businesses, home owners, sales people, parents or teenagers and so on?

The objective of the website

Then I was asked, what was the objective of my website? Did I want to sell services on line or use it to market my business and get more leads for possible customers? Maybe I would want to use it as an online brochure to showcase products. Another possibility was to use the website to foster a community so that I was in contact with other like-minded people, with chat rooms, online discussion and being supported by advertising on the site.

I hadn’t quite realised the scope of a website but as I was asked these questions it became clear that a lot of careful planning went into the preparation before building a website.

How to be Found on the Web

One of the first questions I was asked was, ‘Do you want it to be found by Google the main search engine?’ If I did then there was a whole process of establishing Keywords. So finding the best keywords are vital if you want to be found in Google. Generally most users only look at the top ten results so you will also want to promote your website to get on this page for your chosen keywords. By using a keyword research tool you can find the single most popular keyword for your industry.

Your Domain Name

Choosing a domain name is often quite a problem because every name you initially come up with will almost certainly have been taken. Domain names ending in .com are by far the most popular and internationally recognised; the snag is that it’s very popularity means that the majority of the shorter names have already been registered.
So looking at names with endings such as .net; .co.uk or .info may be able to provide you with the domain name you want.

We were fortunate with the latest website that was related to our company domain name because we had sought advice about registering it a good few years ago and got one with the word Dryzone in it, which also happens to be really relevant to our business.When choosing your domain name it is very important to include one or more of your keywords if possible as this can apparently help with search engine rankings. So although the name of your business is the obvious choice for a domain name, it is not necessarily the only option.

Creating a Site Map

As with any project you must have a plan, the better the plan the better the project turns out. A site map for a web site is part of the plan for the site. The importance of creating a site map is to get it clear in your mind of all the pages you will have on your website so you can prepare the content for each page and begin to design the flow through the website, such as when a user adds a product to their basket, then enters their delivery and billing address and makes the credit card payment in the correct order.

The aim is to make the site as simple to use as possible so that there are no barriers to getting into the website. For that reason often user name and passwordz are set for the customer so that they are not put off making a purchase by having to register.
For a non e-commerce site things are simpler with a contact form which allows you to receive enquiries by email without publishing your email address on the website, thus avoiding spam.Web forms can also validate the information before you receive it, so ensuring that the phone number provided does not contain words, and that the email address is in the correct format, for example. These things may sound very technical to us lay-folk but I assure you everything has to be decided on before starting on the construction of the site.

Copy

The next stage is preparing the content. This is not the design of your website - just the words and visuals you want to have one each of the pages.Having gathered all the previous information you will need to decide what imagery you want to use within the website content. As we all know, a picture speaks a thousand words and remains in people’s memory far longer than just words.For each image you should also have a caption, as the caption of an image is the next ‘most read’ words on the page after the page title. Images and their captions need to be clickable. When you click on a picture it should take you to the next stage of the process such as the sale page or placing an enquiry if your website is for lead generation.

Navigation

Another important consideration when building a website is how you want your navigation to work. You can have links within the content of your website, in the text, so there are not just links from the menu. You will need to decide whether the links will open into a new window, retaining your original page open. Next time you go online, you will realise how much thought has gone into the way in which a website works.

Website Design

Finally we come to the design of your website. According to my guaranteed SEO contact the design stage is the most difficult because everyone has different tastes.

What one person might like, another person might not like. If you are setting up a website for yourself alone then you will probably have some idea of what you want to see on the site. But if, as so often happens, the website is for a large corporation there will be inputs from many people or departments and you can be sure that they will never all agree!

There are a number of ways to approach web design but ultimately you need to create a design brief for the designer(s) to work from. Look at other websites and your competitor’s websites to find out what you like or dislike. The design brief should give reference to the logo, any existing brand guidelines or schemes and fonts and colour schemes, and should also detail which pages of the website that the designer is being tasked with creating visuals for.

The very best results will be achieved by using a graphic designer, and beware - not all graphic designers are the same. A graphic designer who designs specifically for print is working in a different discipline than a graphic designer who designs for screen and specifically the web. So choose your designer carefully, look at other work that person has done and determine whether or not you like their style.

If you are working in the big time and budget allows, use multiple graphic designers who have all been given the same design brief and request three concept designs from each designer. If the client themselves also do a graphic design, even if it’s a back of the envelope scribble, you will then have 10 concept designs. The next step is to get them all together and select the preferred elements from each design. Then give the work to the preferred graphic designer to work up as the final artwork.

The artwork should be finalised and agreed on by everybody before construction of the site begins.

Production

Finally the preparation has been done and the site is ready to be constructed. Now for the more technical stuff! You will need to have decided which programming language to use to build the website. There are two main types for developing a website, one is Unix based, and the other is Windows based. Each one has advantages and disadvantages. If you are starting from scratch then it probably won’t matter, so you can go with the preference of your professional doing the work. My website is built on the Unix platform (apparently!) which is the same as many of the more well known websites such as Ebay, Facebook, Google and Amazon. Also your website hosting must be compatible with the development language with which your website is built.

Accessibility and Compliance

The website has to meet the current standards for website coding and doing so insures that disabled users, such as the visually impaired, can still access the entire website if they are using a screen reader.

Website Development

The best way to develop a website is on the web Server where the site is going to live. This way, those involved in reviewing the work can see work in progress and provide feedback throughout the development.

Unforeseen items

There are always some things that arise in any project which you suddenly realise you have forgotten, so no matter how well the web designer prepares and asks the right questions, there will always be a last minute change or addition. The main aim is to minimise the number of glitches that might arise because they aren’t calculated in and they could cause extra costs and delays on the date of the website going live.

Going live

The moment of excitement comes when your site finally gets launched and you see the results of all the thought that has gone into the whole process. When the company website for my hotels in Brighton firm eventually went live I was really pleased, but also relieved that it was eventually done!

Reporting and Monitoring

Once your website is up and running, you might like to know how many people visit your website and from that number how many actually buy the products or place an enquiry. From these statistics you can work out the ratio of visits to sales and gradually make changes to improve the ratios. There are some reliable statistics packages such as Google Analytics or Web-Stat.com which allow you to collect and review website visitor data in near real time. All you need to do this is to have a small block of code inserted into each web page on your site.

Another useful service that Web-stat.com provides is to monitor the website and warn you by email or text message if the site is not reachable. Google Analytics doesn’t yet provide a comparable uptime monitoring service, maybe they just decided it was too much of a headache as it is an intensive service checking a website every 5 minutes to make sure it is still responding and indeed web-stat do promote this difference as one of their unique selling points but it is pretty hard to compete with free. In fact Google Analytics is not quite free, which makes it an even better marketing decision for Google because sometimes it is harder to give things away for free than it is to sell them! Google Analytics is a free service available to Google AdWords advertisers, you don’t actually have to have any AdWords campaigns running but it will cost you a one-time activation fee of £5 (or similar in your local currency) to open your AdWords account, but once you have done that you can go on to use Google Analytics for as many websites as you like.

Marketing

Once the website is live there are lots of things you can do to market your product or service. The first step is to submit it to the search engines and at the same time write articles, and press releases. Getting links to the site from forums, blogs and other social networking spaces are other options. For more on this subject ask your designer about SEO

Conclusion

Wheww. What an amazing amount of work! I hadn’t realised when I started the process of getting a website up and running, how complicated it all is and how many factors you have to consider before even designing the website. The word web design is really a misnomer, as people often think it’s just about the graphic design on the home page, and the branding of the product. Unless you are a computer buff, most people have no idea how much goes into designing and building a website and the systems that support the work you want it to do. I hope that this article will give readers an understanding and insight into the whole process of website development from start to finish.

Cheap Flights To Roatan

I love to write about a variety of interesting topics. I do not have a favorite topic in mind, but I really enjoy writing about almost anything right now. At this time I am starting an online business. I have been known to write about credit cards, insurance, Spanish, English, Chinese, Japanese, French, Italian, German and other languages. I speak several different languages and currently I’m going to school to acquire a bachelors degree.

When I’m done with school. I will continue to do SEO work and write articles. I enjoy, writing articles, because I’m able to learn more about the topics that I’m not very familiar with. Of course, I have to learn about the topics first and I do much of my research on the internet. I am then able to write about what I have learned on that topic. For example, if I am learning or if I am going to write an article about a topic, I first go online and I research that topic. Sometimes it only takes me a few minutes when I am somewhat familiar with the topic already. It depends to a great exent, on how familiar I am with the topic. Sometimes it might take me an hour or more to learn about the topic. Either way, I am continuing my education.

I look at all kinds of sites. I like to look at sites like yahoo answers, Google News, Yahoo news, CNN, Fox news, press releases and other reference materials. Anyway, after I have researched the topic well and that I can write something from off the top of my head. To give you an example this time I will write about Cheap Flights To Roatan. I write this is down on my computer and I begin typing. I’d like to type out then run through it once again to make sure it flows nicely and check for grammatical errors. In the article I will be sure to include useful information to readers, regarding Cheap Flights To Roatan . After that I’m done.

I then set the article aside and maybe wait a few hours, sometimes the day and I’ll get back to it later with fresh eyes and a good night’s sleep, and I’ll see the article, and again review it for any errors or any changes needed. I like to see if it might sound better if it were put in other words, sometimes more precise and condensed. Then I’m ready to publish what I wrote, so I find the place where I want to publish it, and I submit the article. The article is then reviewed. It is usually accepted and I can go on in the next topic of choice. After the readers have the information, Cheap Flights To Roatan, then they can make a smart choice.

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Web Design Javea

Total search engine marketing solutions, online shopping cart systems and web sites for small to medium sized businesses, helping business owners promote their businesses within the major search engines, web 2.0 sites and beyond seems to be the mainstay of many webdesign and seo agencies, including Web Design Javea

When people want to find a product or service on the Internet chances are they will use a search engine to produce a list of suitable web sites. Website Design Javea can help with your Search Engine Optimization

Because the Internet contains billions of web pages the list of suggested sites produced by each search engine can be huge. And, getting your site to the top of those lists is our priority, as this will dramatically increase the number of visitors to your site, and therefore increase the amount of business you do!

Getting a top listing for your site, product or service is usually a time consuming thing to achieve and also maintain, and involves optimising your site (SEO) and building relevant content pages and as many inbound links to your site as possible, on an ongoing basis.

Because each search engine is only as good as the results that it produces, Javea web design are very careful to ensure that they do not mislead the major Search Engines. Attempts to mislead a search engine (or mistakes that look like attempts to mislead a search engine) can lead to permanent blacklisting of a domain name.

When choosing an expert to manage your SEO, choose wisely and don’t just go for the cheapest deal you can get.. the consequences could be dire.

Healthy Eating For Summer Weight Loss

Winter has been unforgiving, especially in the UK. What better thing to do during the cold season than to sit in a couch and munch on some goodies while keeping yourself cozy and warm? It seems like yesterday when you were struggling to lose your winter coat; before you even know it, summer is in its full effect.

The minute you feel warm enough to wear shorts, you realized something: The beach is beckoning and you are not prepared for it, physically! You panic and think of stapling your mouth for a week or two, until you look good in your swimwear, as your summer weight loss solution.

It can really be a struggle to shed excess fat and most people fall into a summer weight loss UK dilemma every year. Wacky diet, starvation, and diet pills are beckoning and giving you hopes of weight slimming down for that swimming costume. Summer weight loss doesn’t have to mean starving yourself to look your best in shorts or swimsuit.

The secret to lose weight fast is to eat healthy foods; food choices are actually easy to make during summertime because high calorie dishes are less appealing during the hot season. Take advantage of fresh fruits and vegetables that are at their peak and at their best in summer. Refreshing and light foods are bountiful and keeps you out of the hot kitchen.

Experts say that the best summer weight loss diet is to load up with nature’s produce. Fruits and vegetables are low in calorie but loaded with essential vitamins and minerals, plus antioxidants and fiber to help your body flush those unwanted toxins and fats. Aside from their health benefits, they are delectable, juicy, and satisfy the taste buds. Berries, tomatoes, zucchini, melons, cucumbers, peas and other greens are available at farmer’s markets and grocery stores.

Forget portion control and go ahead and eat all the fruits and vegetables you can get your hands on. Summer weight loss with nature’s bounty will do your waistline no damage.

If you are wondering what the healthiest summer weight loss foods are, here is a list of dieticians’ and experts’ food recommendation:

Berries are luscious and sweet but there is more to berries that meets the appetite. They are known to boost antioxidant levels and help reduce the effects of ageing. Berries are also rich in nutrients that help lower cholesterol level.

Watermelons are loved because they are watery, juicy, and crisp, perfect for satisfying thirst during the hot season. If you want a tasty summer weight loss, mix slices of watermelon with milk, water, and ice cubes. Whirl in a blender and your perfect juice is ready in a snap.

Garden salads are the best bet for time and cost efficient summer weight loss meal. They are easy to prepare and the perfect way to get vegetables into your diet. Dress your salad with healthy oils like extra virgin olive oil, walnut oil or your choice of other healthy oils. Salads are a great way of letting yourself off the hook from the hot kitchen.

Healthy eating is your best summer weight loss plan. Enjoy a hearty meal and reap the benefits of losing weight, staying fit, and living a healthy lifestyle. Jumpstart your summer weight loss with fruits and vegetables and get in shape for your favorite swimsuit.

This site does not provide medical or health care advice. It does not provide diagnosis or treatment. The site is for information purposes only. It is not to be used as a substitute for professional medical advice. You should always seek the advice of your doctor before starting any new diet or making any changes that may impact on your health.

Senders offering soft contact lenses at opportune rates

Do you plan to buy adherent lenses and cleansers online at a providential cost? Then you should find online shops of contact lenses to get your contact lenses delivered home inexpensively and expeditiously. If the wearer is already skilled in dealing with contact lenses and knows what style of lenses fits their individual requirements best, then they should buy their contact lenses and accessories comfortably at one of my favorite German providers online stores.

The firm Lensbest has been selling in the market since 1995 as a mail order business selling contact lenses and belongs to the longest active sellers in this branch of trade. Their Internet store has been awarded as “Best Online Shop 2006″ by the association of German mailorder companies. Having said that the Lenscatcher Ltd. presents a fine online store for contact lenses and lens cleaning supplies and is one of the leading online retailers in Europe, too. This excellent online mail order house gives a big cost advantage to their shoppers.

The firm Lensbest is one of Europes largest mail order houses of contact lenses and offer their buyers a cost-free helpdesk around the clock as well as expert consultancy by an optician. The delivery of ordered products is usually accomplished after some working days. At the online store of Lensbest the customer will receive contact lenses, cleaning products and accessories. Besides the high quality brand Lenscare the customer will also buy other well-established brands, such as Bausch & Lomb and Ciba Vision. Dimensionally stable and hard adherent lenses are particularly oxygen permeable and swim on the tears film of the eye, which then is better served with nutrients and oxygen than it is when having soft lenses. Therefore they are appropriate for air-conditioned rooms and dry air.

An astigmatism or corneal disorder is rectified with the so-called toric lens. Therefore the shopper also should know the accurate additional data for cylinder and axis. Furthermore, there are cosmetic contact lenses available in various colors which allow the wearer altering the color of the eyes. The Customer can look at a German recommendation of Lenscatcher and Lensbest on that site: billige Monatslinsen. Buying contact lenses via Internet is reasonable for individuals, who already have got experience with adherent lenses, know their parameters and the optimal style of lenses for themselves and actually do not need further personal help from an oculist. If the patient has collected enough experience and also has the exact data of the contact lenses on hand, a subsequent delivery at an online shop is really easy.

The selection between dimensionally stable and soft lenses should be made according to the individual needs of the wearer. Thereby play a role, for instance the duration and frequency of wearing, the environment and any tendency of getting dry eyes. If one wants to take exercise outdoors, where more dust or dirt can be expected, such as track and field athletics or soccer on the hard court, going on horseback or mountain biking, the customer will tend to soft day-lenses that are littered after singular use. Relevant for an order at one of those online tenderers is to have the exact parameters of the own adherent lenses, that means for example the size of the lenses in diopter, their aperture, concavity and moisture content. When having a corneal irregularity, you have to know the concerning additional parameters. If the patient is not skilled with adherent lenses one must first visit an oculist and optician.

The information given here is not intended to diagnose and treat any disease or illness. We always recommend to visit a doctor for any specific medical problem or before embarking on a health regime of your own.

Semenex Enhances the Male Experience

Most adult men have fallen into a rut but the time they have reached the age of 30. As days and weeks slip by everything blends in the same “wake up, go to work, go to a bar, come home” that looks good for a year or two. Later on, the routine becomes harder and harder to handle, especially since the benefits don’t seem to amount to much anymore. Work is not the high point of most peoples lives. Hanging out at bars eventually gets boring and no longer generates the same excitement. Drinking with the friends turns into a bitter routine, despite the fact that all those involved are keen to disguise this fact from themselves and from each other.

Sex is also no longer as exciting as before, and, worst of all, a change of partners won’t help this time because the problem lies with you. Excessively long work days, not enough exercise, and not eating properly can all have an influence on your love life. You penis is no longer as quick to respond to the call to arms and the orgasm is not as good anymore. The natural response in such cases is to wonder if this is just a passing phase or something worse. Fortunately, most men experiencing this situation are only going to suffer temporary discomfort that should go away with a combination of relaxation for stress relief and exercise to stimulate testosterone production.

But there is something else you can do to reduce this problem. A product that many other men have tried and had success with. Wouldn’t it be great to know that your erection and orgasm can last much longer and that you can ejaculate more semen than you have previously? This is why you need Semenex, the high quality, perfectly natural pills which can lead to the greatest sexual experience of you’re life.

If you think that the amount of sperm you ejaculate is not that important , here are a few things to consider. The intensity and length of time of your orgasm is controlled by how much sperm you ejaculate, which means that the greater the volume of sperm that moves upward from the testicles, the greater the duration of your orgasm be. Semenex Pills  work by stimulating the production of various substances in your body in order to accomplish certain ends. The ingredients contained in Semenex include the amino acids L-arginine HCL, L-carnitine and L-lysine to increase testosterone and sperm count and motility; herbals epimedium sagittatum, catuaba bark and South American maca to boost libido and potency; and nutritionals to aid testosterone synthesis and prostate health.

So, what do Semenex Pills have to offer? It can put a satisfied smile on your face. It can assist you to become a better lover who pleasures his partner each time and makes her come back for more. It can help make your sex life more pleasurable. And, lastly, it promotes the psychological well being that comes with a happy and fulfilling relationship. But first and foremost, Semenex  is here for your pleasure.

Disclaimer: This general information should not be used in place of attention or advice from a doctor or healthcare professional.

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Dyslexia Advice

Dyslexia is a life-long learning difficulty. The term ‘dyslexia’ is Greek for ‘difficulty with words’ and about 10% of the population are affected to varying degrees. It often runs in families but is not linked to intelligence. People with dyslexia have difficulty processing word sounds and the effects can be seen in spelling, writing, short-term memory and organisation. Dyslexia varies in severity and will often be found alongside other specific learning difficulties, such as ADHD, dyspraxia or dyscalculia.

The degree to which dyslexia causes problems for a person depends on many factors, such as the severity of the dyslexia and the kind of teaching and support they may have received. The negative effects can be minimised by targeted literacy teaching, technological support and adaptations to the mainstream ways of working and learning. You can find out if your child has dyslexia by getting a diagnosing dyslexia assessment from your LEA or an educational psychologist. The earlier someone is diagnosed, the better, so that learning methods can be adapted to suit.

Independent schools for boarders that are specialist dyslexia schools have a lot of success with helping pupils learn to cope with their dyslexia. The reason for this is that the pupils are in a regimented routine, good diet and the specialist attention of specifically trained teachers.

The wider community often see dyslexia as a negative but there is evidence that many dyslexics often make up for their difficulties by developing other talents such as visual creativity. This can lead to fields of work such as inventors, artists, engineers, architects and performers.

Children with dyslexia have said: “Being dyslexic is good because your brain can be wired up in a different and brilliant way,” and “Being dyslexic has made me think more, so I love taking things apart and seeing how they work.” In some ways it can be seen as a gift but in others it is of course a hindrance.

However, it need not prevent high achievement and indeed many famous people are dyslexic such as Richard Branson, Jamie Oliver, Orlando Bloom and Albert Einstein.

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