Category: Book Reviews

Hacking the Code: The Ziggety Zaggety Road of a Dyslexic Kid

Posted on August 5, 2022August 5, 2022 by Sharon Roberts

Book Review: Hacking the Code by Gea Meijering and Mads Johan Øgaard Want to get inside a dyslexic child’s mind?

Breaking the Code: A novel

Posted on September 17, 2021September 18, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Book Review: Breaking the Code by G.B. Mackenzie. This is a novel about a 12-year-old boy who is good at solving problems, but cannot read.

The Gift of Dyslexia: The Book that Completely Changed my World

Posted on March 26, 2021August 12, 2021 by Matthew Head

After writing my first article on the Gift of Dyslexia blog, it was recommended to me to give the book

Finding Your Special Kind of Smart

Posted on March 19, 2021August 5, 2022 by Abigail Marshall

Book Review: Cartwheels, by Tracy Peterson with Sloane LaFrance. Parents often ask for help in explaining a diagnosis of dyslexia to very young children.

A Mother’s Path to Discovery

Posted on November 27, 2020September 5, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Book Review: Reversed, a memoir, by Lois Letchford. A mother’s quest to help her dyslexic son.

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

Posted on March 20, 2020November 30, 2022 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

Advice from a Literacy Problem Solver

Posted on December 27, 2019September 9, 2021 by DDAI

In this 30 minute interview, author and educator Lois Letchford shares her insights and unique approach to helping dyslexic schoolchildren

An alternative view on learning styles

Posted on November 29, 2019September 9, 2021 by Chantal Wyseur

When we talk about “learning styles”, what we mean is the notion that students learn better when the course content is

Dyslexic Legends Alphabet Book

Posted on November 22, 2019September 18, 2021 by DDAI

This is a fun and informative way to explore the accomplishments of dyslexic achievers. To learn more, visit the publisher’s

Book Review: Out of Autism

Posted on August 9, 2018November 30, 2022 by Abigail Marshall

Out of Autism takes the reader through each phase of the Davis Autism program, interweaving practical explanations with the accounts of the very different experiences of each of the children and adults that Dr. Cathy Dodge Smith has worked with.

Why Tyrannosaurus but Not If?

Posted on July 30, 2017September 12, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

“I don’t understand it: he can read tyrannosaurus, but he gets stuck on if!” This question from the mother of

A Fictional Facilitator – Book Review

Posted on February 12, 2016November 30, 2022 by Marcia Maust

Christmas on Cougar Mountain by Nancy Radke (Book 10 in the Sisters of Spirit series) This is a fictional story

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