IcanRead – A tool for dyslexic people
As a father of a dyslexic son, I have looked into many tools and supportive measures to help him with
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Category: Learning to Read
A Different Approach to Reading Cursive Writing
Many children and adults find it especially difficult to read cursive writing. One problem is that the shapes of cursive letters are often inconsistent from word to word, in ways that can make words very hard to recognize.
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When the “Different” Learner meets Cursive Writing
Most folks today don’t write in cursive. Some people never even pick up a pen or pencil. Writing in cursive has become rare — yet reading cursive remains an important life skill.
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Dyslexia: Enable the Learning Difference
A talk by Sue Blyth Hall (Davis Facilitator, author, and founder of the Whole Dyslexic Society). Everyone is learning-able, however,
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Finding Your Special Kind of Smart
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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Picture Grammar App for Visual Learners
The Picture Grammer app is a handy, image-based reference for dyslexics, visual thinkers, and those learning English as a foreign language.
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A Mother’s Path to Discovery
Book Review: Reversed, a memoir, by Lois Letchford. A mother’s quest to help her dyslexic son.
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Orthographic Mapping and Dyslexia
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
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Phonological dyslexia? Not so much….
Recent research studies cast doubt on the role of phonological processing difficulties in dyslexia. One study, from the UK, suggests
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Finding Fluency
All I wanted was for my son to become a reader. I wanted him to be able to read easily and automatically, without effort.
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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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To Know or to Master? That is the question….
Help, I forgot everything! I regularly have children who tell me that they have “forgotten everything” about lessons they have
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