Category: Education & Career

A Mother’s Path to Discovery

Posted on November 27, 2020November 26, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

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

The Dyslexic Statistic

Posted on November 6, 2020August 25, 2020 by Hayley Butcher

Dyslexia is a common neurodiversity that is ever or omnipresent across all cultures, ages, and societies. Worldwide statistics emphasise than

Miseducation and Dyslexia

Posted on October 23, 2020October 18, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

A recent article in “The Guardian” profiled the views of British psychologist Julian Elliot. He criticizes the lack of a uniform standard for dyslexia diagnosis, but is mistaken to question the existence of dyslexia.

Orthographic Mapping and Dyslexia

Posted on September 25, 2020September 25, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Educators use the term “orthographic mapping” to describe the way that written words are etched into long-term memory. Once a person has “mapped” a word, they will be able to recognize the word instantly by sight

A Key to Learning: Connecting

Posted on September 18, 2020September 18, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

In addition to my Davis® Dyslexia Correction practice, I regularly teach supportive math lessons to students between sixth and 12th

The Dress Rehearsal

Posted on August 28, 2020August 29, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

A Very Special Time In this unprecedented period in human history, children and students of all ages have never experienced

Phonological dyslexia? Not so much….

Posted on August 21, 2020September 20, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Recent research studies cast doubt on the role of phonological processing difficulties in dyslexia. One study, from the UK, suggests

Finding Fluency

Posted on August 7, 2020September 19, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

All I wanted was for my son to become a reader. I wanted him to be able to read easily and automatically, without effort.

Educational Bias and Dyslexic Learners

Posted on June 26, 2020August 7, 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.

To Know or to Master? That is the question….

Posted on June 12, 2020August 8, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

Help, I forgot everything! I regularly have children who tell me that they have “forgotten everything” about lessons they have

Parent as teacher and a dyslexic child. WHAT TO DO?

Posted on May 8, 2020May 8, 2020 by Anita Chmara

This is not an easy situation for many of us. Children in the coronavirus era still have dyslexia, but now the parent is responsible for how the child handles school duties.

The Benefits of Humour

Posted on April 3, 2020March 30, 2020 by Hayley Butcher

Laughter is infectious. Sometimes I don’t even know what a person is laughing at, yet it makes me burst out