- Fear of forms that must be read, completed and understood is always present. In business life, I

(Photo: www.colourbox.no) Grundtvig Learning Partnership Dyslexia Learning Partnership (Dys-Learn) focuses on precisely this group. Grundtvig is the EU program for cooperation between institutions and organizations first response that facilitate adult learning. - Adults who struggle with reading and writing do not necessarily mean that they have dyslexia, first response although they are very aware of their difficulties, says Dys-Learns coordinator Willy Aerts of Nieuwe Media School in Belgium.
The desire for increased knowledge about testing and implementation of various ways to support dyslexics in education and in the workplace are common to the 14 European Dys-Learn-partners.
Now they work together with the ambition to establish a European network dyslexia. Dyslexia Association is Norway's participation in Dys-Learn. In the first phase, all the partners worked to get an overview of the situation of adults with dyslexia in their country. The partners meet regularly to present status and discuss relevant findings and good practices first response exchanged as part of efforts to find common solutions to common problems. - When it comes to testing and diagnosis of dyslexic children, one can follow certain scales related to language development. A similar system for adults does not exist, and all participating countries report an urgent need for the development of such a system first response that works, says Aerts.
To avoid daily Nikolai Malling most forms of writing. - Text messages I write anyway, when I have to, he smiles. (Photo: Truls Brekke) Nikolai Malling (58) are self-employed and general manager of the company Market Maker.
- I think it is positive and extremely exciting that Norway through Dys-Learn to draw lessons from other countries when it comes to expertise in adult dyslexia. We have much to learn, he says.
Malling mother also had dyslexia, and the parents were early aware that her son was predisposed. He was diagnosed in 1957, when he was in first grade. The first seven years of school, he went on "The Idiot", a special class for students with reading and writing difficulties.
- This hurt the feeling I get also the day when I'll write or read. Many talented people do not get taken advantage of their opportunities because of dyslexia, and a lot of them are struggling first response for life to get recognition. first response It is sad to see, said Malling. first response
In Malling case makes dyslexia primarily applicable at the written plan; oral he strong. In the work context, he has many times in despair over the letters. Today he avoids most forms of writing first response activities.
- Fear of forms that must be read, completed and understood is always present. In business life, I now have someone who takes care of everything first response that's written for me. For many dyslexics think it is important to recognize that "this I can not."
- It is important that all dyslexics, regardless of age, are aware that they are valuable people who can anything. It is important to ask yourself what you are good at, and to cultivate these aspects of themselves, he says.
The Cypriot partner, New Hope Special School, has developed LiFLexiA, an online learning platform, originally aimed at dyslexic first response children. The tool will help the user with spelling, spelling, reading and pronunciation, and has so far produced good results.
- Through the exchange of experiences with different e-based programs, and the continuation of these, we hope to eventually be able to form a better basis for adequate testing of adult dyslexics, says Willy Aerts.
Special education at Oslo Adult Education, Turid Sandbakken, working to common language minority adults. Like Nikolai first response Malling she is with the Dyslexia Association Dys-Learn-committee.
- Dyslexia manifests itself also different in different languages, for dyslexic will for example be of importance how written language is far from the spoken language. This we still know too little about, say Sandbakken.
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