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In <strong>the</strong> exhibition area, 'Salle des Pas Perdus', beside <strong>the</strong><br />

Forum’s Salle ll:<br />

Suppliers <strong>of</strong> educational materials for people with dyslexia<br />

CECIAA, France; iansyst, UK; Micros<strong>of</strong>t School Technology Innovation<br />

Center, Belgium; Smart Kids, UK; White Space, UK<br />

Roll<strong>in</strong>g screen presentations:<br />

• <strong>Dyslexia</strong> Associations’ work world-wide – show<strong>in</strong>g support<br />

associations around <strong>the</strong> world<br />

• Free onl<strong>in</strong>e resources by <strong>Dyslexia</strong> International:<br />

- Language Shock – <strong>Dyslexia</strong> across cultures, a 28 m<strong>in</strong>ute<br />

awareness <strong>and</strong> tra<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>g film produced by <strong>the</strong> BBC,<br />

with guides <strong>in</strong> five languages<br />

- a do-it-yourself support group h<strong>and</strong>-book: <strong>Dyslexia</strong> Here <strong>and</strong><br />

There, with illustrations by Quent<strong>in</strong> Blake<br />

- onl<strong>in</strong>e conference reports by Pr<strong>of</strong>essors Stanislas Dehaene, José<br />

Morais <strong>and</strong> John Ste<strong>in</strong> on ‘<strong>Dyslexia</strong>: Neuroscience <strong>and</strong> cognitive<br />

psychology’<br />

Teach<strong>in</strong>g, learn<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r resources<br />

Exhibition:<br />

- books, s<strong>of</strong>tware <strong>and</strong> hardware that support learn<strong>in</strong>g to read <strong>and</strong><br />

write <strong>in</strong> Arabic, Ch<strong>in</strong>ese, English, French, Russian <strong>and</strong> Spanish<br />

‘Creativity beyond words’<br />

- exhibition panels by architect Lord Richard Rogers, fashion <strong>and</strong><br />

furniture designers <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>rs, demonstrat<strong>in</strong>g outst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g<br />

achievements by people with dyslexia <strong>in</strong> all walks <strong>of</strong> life<br />

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