Abigail Marshall

Author: Abigail Marshall

Abigail Marshall is the Webmaster & Internet Information Services Director for Davis Dyslexia Association International. She is also the author of two books about dyslexia, The Everything Parents Guide to Children with Dyslexia and When Your Child Has ... Dyslexia.

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Educational Bias and Dyslexic Learners

Posted on June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Researchers know that dyslexics learn to read differently, but schools continue to focus on children’s weaknesses rather than their strengths.

Time for an online program?

Posted on May 15, 2020July 2, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

This is a time of change. Schools have shut down, families are told to stay at home, household routines are

Fish Don’t Climb Trees – A different take on dyslexia

Posted on March 20, 2020March 21, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Davis Facilitator Sue Hall has updated her book: “Fish Don’t Climb Trees: A Whole New Look at Dyslexia”. Sue understands dyslexia from the inside out – as a dyslexic person with vivid recollections of frustrations experienced in elementary school, as a parent who searched for and found a solution

“Evidence Based” — But does it work?

Posted on February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Parents seeking help for their dyslexic kids usually have one question uppermost in their minds: will it work?

Fitting Davis Tools into an IEP

Posted on January 24, 2020January 25, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

A parent asks how to include Davis techniques within a school-based IEP.

Is your child a “nonresponder”?

Posted on January 17, 2020June 21, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

What happens when a child cannot learn to read through phonics? Educational researchers have a word for those children: they

Spelling Help after a Davis Program

Posted on January 10, 2020January 10, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

A parent of a second-grader writes: My son had a big gain in reading after completing his Davis program week,

How do you read to your child?

Posted on November 30, 2019November 30, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

[Updated] Reading story books to small children is fun, but did you know that the way you read can make a big difference in preparing your child to become a reader?

Comprehension Strategies win out

Posted on August 16, 2019September 6, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

A meta-analysis of long-term effects of school-based reading interventions shows teaching comprehension strategies is more effective than teaching phonics.

E-Books? New Study shows dyslexic comprehension better with printed books.

Posted on July 28, 2019November 30, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

Study shows that dyslexic university students have better reading comprehension of longer texts when reading from a printed book rather than an ebook.

Facilitation – Making it Easy

Posted on July 24, 2019September 19, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

The dictionary defines facilitate as “to make easier or less difficult: help foward”. How this approach differs from teaching or tutoring.

Unflipping the Letters

Posted on June 29, 2019July 6, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

It’s natural to confuse b and d — it is the unlearning of “mirror generalization” that’s hard. Here’s what scientists have discovered.