Dyslexia and Reading Science
Dyslexics learn differently. That’s pretty much baked into the definition of dyslexia. Dyslexia is not the result of poor teaching, nor is it the same as reading failure.
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Category: Early Childhood Education
Letter Reversals
It is extremely common and normal for children to reverse or invert letters when they are learning to write, or
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Finding the Invisible Dyslexic
Sometimes the symptoms of dyslexia are obvious, sometimes not. There is a huge population whom I refer to as “the invisible ones”. I happen to be one of them.
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Too Hard, Too Soon
I walk into the classroom and sit down beside the child who’s on my caseload. We’re only supposed to work on handwriting, but she’s struggling in every way.
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So your child hates to write?
Some kids are interested in “writing” when they’re 2. They love letters and learn all the letter names and the
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Making Better Choices
It’s a common feature of the primary school classroom. The behavior chart on the wall, with children’s names on pegs.
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Frustration!
Imagine 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.
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Educational Bias and Dyslexic Learners
Researchers know that dyslexics learn to read differently, but schools continue to focus on children’s weaknesses rather than their strengths.
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Hacking the Code: The Ziggety Zaggety Road of a Dyslexic Kid
Book Review: Hacking the Code by Gea Meijering and Mads Johan Øgaard Want to get inside a dyslexic child’s mind?
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What all children need to know
When children start school, they do not carry the labels dyslexia, nor ADHD, nor dysgraphia, nor dyscalculia. Where do these problems come from? What happens to cause a child to suffer and lose self-esteem?
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What Dyslexic Math Professors can tell us
New research explores the thought processes of dyslexic mathematicians — the strengths they share, and the challenges they encountered along the way.
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Miseducation and Dyslexia
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.
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