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Book Review: Cartwheels, by Tracy Peterson with Sloane LaFrance. Parents often ask for help in explaining a diagnosis of dyslexia to very young children.
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Book Review: Cartwheels, by Tracy Peterson with Sloane LaFrance. Parents often ask for help in explaining a diagnosis of dyslexia to very young children.
Continue readingThe Picture Grammer app is a handy, image-based reference for dyslexics, visual thinkers, and those learning English as a foreign language.
Continue readingBook Review: Reversed, a memoir, by Lois Letchford. A mother’s quest to help her dyslexic son.
Continue readingEducators 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
Continue readingRecent research studies cast doubt on the role of phonological processing difficulties in dyslexia. One study, from the UK, suggests
Continue readingAll I wanted was for my son to become a reader. I wanted him to be able to read easily and automatically, without effort.
Continue readingResearchers know that dyslexics learn to read differently, but schools continue to focus on children’s weaknesses rather than their strengths.
Continue readingHelp, I forgot everything! I regularly have children who tell me that they have “forgotten everything” about lessons they have
Continue readingThis 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.
Continue readingThis is the program objective that my young client gave herself: unlearn dyslexia.” Her answer is relevant and lucid: yes, dyslexia is the result of learning.
Continue readingA short video about the differences between word-based and visual thinking, produced by Davis Facilitator Brenda Baird.
Continue readingParents seeking help for their dyslexic kids usually have one question uppermost in their minds: will it work?
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