Broadcast 46: Digital Games and Dyslexia

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Simone Gori, Ph. D. and co-author of research article “Action Video Games Make Dyslexic Children Read Better,” joined us to discuss his research pertaining to digital games and dyslexia.

Simone got his Master of Science in General and Experimental Psychology at the University of Florence, Italy and his Ph. D. in Perception and Psychophysics at the University of Padua, Italy. Simone is a Senior Post Doctoral Research Fellow for the Department of Research Psychology at the University of Pauda.

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Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Sandie is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a former university graduate school faculty member, and a co-founder of Lexercise. Sandie has been past president of the North Carolina Speech, Hearing & Language Association and has received two clinical awards, the Public Service Award and the Clinical Services Award. She served two terms on the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists.

As a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Sandie developed and taught structured literacy courses, supervised practicum for speech-language pathology graduate students, and coordinated a federally funded personnel preparation grant. In 2009, Sandie and her business partner, Chad Myers co-founded Mind InFormation, Inc./ Lexercise to provide accessible and scalable structured literacy services for students across the English-speaking world.