Wikipedia:WikiProject Dyslexia

Welcome to WikiProject Dyslexia. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of dyslexia and the organization of information and articles on this and related topics. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

The WikiProject Dyslexia is officially a child project of WikiProject Education. The project concerns writing new and improving existing articles about dyslexia and its many related topics.

This project was created to assist several editors in coordinating the work involved in breaking up the dyslexia article into a series of articles using the Summary style. However, it is expected that the project will extend beyond that particular series of articles.

Dyslexia
Contributing factors
 * Orthographies and dyslexia
 * Phonological awareness

Dyslexia research—sub category, main article
 * Genetic research into dyslexia
 * Brain scan research into dyslexia
 * History of dyslexia research

Theories of dyslexia—sub sub category main article; see discussion page for ongoing comments
 * Phonological deficit
 * Perceptual noise exclusion hypothesis
 * Double deficit

Management of dyslexia
 * Orthographies and dyslexia
 * Dyslexia interventions—other types of interventions? speed of auditory processing? visual processing? needs to be priorities per orthography? "Academic interventions for dyslexia" should be a subsection of each main orthography articles.

Category:Dyslexia support by country
 * Dyslexia support in the United States
 * Dyslexia support in the United Kingdom

Alexia (acquired dyslexia)

 * Alexia (condition) main Alexia article

Neuroanatomical Alexias (classical Alexia)


 * 1) Alexia with Agraphia (Central Alexia) -->New article required
 * 2) Alexia with out Agraphia (Pure Alexia)
 * 3) Frontal Alexia -->New article required
 * 4) Spatial Alexia -->New article required

Psycholinguistic - Central Alexias (with an aphasia)


 * 1) Deep Dyslexia (alexia)
 * 2) Phonological Dyslexia (alexia) -->New article required
 * 3) Semantic dyslexia (alexia)
 * 4) Surface Dyslexia (alexia) -->New article required

Psycholinguistic - Peripheral Alexias


 * 1) Pure Alexia
 * 2) Neglect Alexia -->New article required
 * 3) Attentional Alexia -->New article required

Existing orphan articles:
 * Dyslexia font

Related Conditions
As the project template appears on many of these articles, so we need to regularly check the changes made in this article which may also relate to specifically to dyslexia.


 * Dyscalculia
 * Dysgraphia
 * Scotopic sensitivity syndrome

Categories

 * Category:Developmental dyslexia
 * Category:Dyslexia
 * Category:Dyslexia support by country
 * Category:Dyslexia research
 * Category:Theories of dyslexia
 * Category:Dyslexia researchers
 * Category:Dyslexia in fiction

Goals

 * Re-structure the whole Alexia series of article to reflect the last decades research
 * Break up the existing dyslexia article into a coherent series of articles. See WikiProject Dyslexia/Proposed organization for the current proposal. Mostly done during 2009
 * Develop links with all of the related issues: medical, education, legal, support provision etc.

Scope

 * Disability discrimination
 * Disability rights
 * Language acquisition
 * Notation
 * Orthography
 * Reading
 * Reading Disabilities
 * Special Educational Needs (SEN)
 * Special educational needs statutory provision
 * Working memory
 * Writing Systems



Guidelines

 * Build consensus on Talk page before implementing significant changes.

Issues needing consensus
These are issues for discussion on which we need to come to consensus. Discuss on the talk page.
 * Characteristics section lacks sources
 * Suggestion to merge Irlen syndrome with Irlen filters and removed from main article (presumably with a summary-type reference?)
 * Consider how to handle links to commercial products. Come to consensus on how to  handle proposal to delete several external links:
 * Dyslexia International - Tools and Technologies (DITT)
 * Missing a key intervention: "special education"
 * Concern about US bias in article overall.
 * Suggestion to keep WHO definition in main article and provide other nation and organization specific definitions in secondary article.
 * Address legal issues; educational support issues

WikiProject Dyslexia/Needing consensus

Articles
This is a preliminary list of articles that are part of WikiProject Dyslexia. Please add articles as you find or create them.

Disorders

 * Alexia (acquired dyslexia)
 * Auditory Processing Disorder
 * Dyscalculia
 * Dysgraphia
 * Dyslexia
 * Dyspraxia

Lists

 * Assessments
 * Fields
 * Publications
 * Topics
 * Treatments

New articles
Please feel free to list your new dyslexia-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

Collaboration and review
We'll start these processes at some point ......


 * Collaboration of the week


 * Peer review
 * Assessment
 * Assessment

Templates

 * I'm sure we'll have at least a couple of templates to place here before this is all over.

Crudely cribbed from rowing project a project banner to add to talk pages WikiProject Dyslexia

Can anyone think of a good image or is this free?

Sources of information
The following sites may be useful for finding additional source material and fact checking.
 * Websites
 * International Dyslexia Association (IDA)
 * British Dyslexia Association
 * European Dyslexia Dyslexia Association
 * Australian Dyslexia Association
 * PubMed
 * Dyslexia International Tools and Technology (D.I.T.T
 * What is Dyslexia?
 * What Causes Your Dyslexia There is a database of research files in the Files section of this group/forum
 * Children of the Code - Interviews of many pre-eminent researchers in neuroscience, reading, and education. Great resource to get information "from the horses' mouths," as it were.
 * Publications

Related projects

 * WikiProject Education
 * WikiProject Neuroscience
 * WikiProject Psychology