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If you know a child who has difficulty understanding verbal instructions and who struggles with reading and spelling, they could have an auditory processing disorder.

by Brian O’Shea – Staff writer

OK, so its 2010, there’s a shortage of money to buy books, materials and resources, friends in your social network are losing their jobs and staff at the school are not being replaced.

There are children, who despite good teaching, cannot produce nice neat handwriting.

Identifying and catering for dyslexic learners – and others with processing difficulties – is a major challenge for schools and parents.

Now What?

With an estimated 20 per cent of the population showing traits of dyslexia, The Gifted Education Centre acknowledges that at least one in five gifted students is likely to be dyslexic.

BookTalks – an initiative using on-line technology to link authors and readers, was launched recently to coincide with the NZ Post Book Awards.

New Zealand’s estimated resident population increased 1.3 per cent (56,300) in the year ended 31st March, 2010, to reach 4,362,000, Statistics NZ has said.

In 2006, young people were studying for longer, more likely to work part-time, and received lower levels of income than 20 years earlier.

NZ’s Hector’s World® launches in Bermuda

New Zealand’s digital citizenship resource for two to nine-year-olds, Hector’s World®, has been launched in Bermuda during their national Tech Week ’10 celebration.

Kiwi start-up DIYFather.com has announced it would be giving away the world’s first “Fathers Pack”, a box filled with free products and information available to new dads all over NZ.