Mental Imagery and Reading Comprehension
Recent research utilizing a new, objective measure shows a strong link between mental imagery abilties and reading comprehension among adults.
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Recent research utilizing a new, objective measure shows a strong link between mental imagery abilties and reading comprehension among adults.
Continue readingImagine this scenario: A 7-year-old with fine motor difficulties wakes up in the morning. He struggles to dress, because the clothes he wants to wear have buttons that are too small.
Continue readingResearchers know that dyslexics learn to read differently, but schools continue to focus on children’s weaknesses rather than their strengths.
Continue readingI am pretty sure that Ron Davis was the first person to call dyslexia a gift, when he published his book The Gift of Dyslexia in 1994. Nowadays, many people talk about dyslexia’s gifts, but what is it?
Continue readingIn this video, I discuss the second “elephant”: who invented reading and why is it so difficult for some people?
Continue readingI knew I was different long before anyone informed me of a formal diagnosis. Letters never flew in the same way to me, the way so many of friends seemed to have effortlessly understood them.
Continue readingLydia enjoyed math until third grade. When the numbers started getting bigger, and long division and multiplication were getting more
Continue readingIn this “Elephant in the Room” series, I define and address the “elephants” that are often so hard to find
Continue readingHow can you make tables insightful? Let a child prove what the results are, by making them visible. In the
Continue readingBook Review: Hacking the Code by Gea Meijering and Mads Johan Øgaard Want to get inside a dyslexic child’s mind?
Continue readingNew research shows that in untimed conditions, dyslexic university students have markedly better comprehension skills than others.
Continue readingThe facilitator had his work cut out for him. He admitted that James was one of his most challenging students — essentially completely illiterate and autistic, albeit high functioning.
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