Category: Learning to Read

Finding Your Special Kind of Smart

Posted on March 19, 2021March 23, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Book Review: Cartwheels, by Tracy Peterson with Sloane LaFrance. Parents often ask for help in explaining a diagnosis of dyslexia to very young children.

Picture Grammar App for Visual Learners

Posted on December 25, 2020December 25, 2020 by DDAI

The Picture Grammer app is a handy, image-based reference for dyslexics, visual thinkers, and those learning English as a foreign language.

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.

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

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.

I want to Unlearn Dyslexia

Posted on March 27, 2020March 23, 2020 by Patrick Courtois

This 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.

How does your child think?

Posted on March 6, 2020February 29, 2020 by DDAI

A short video about the differences between word-based and visual thinking, produced by Davis Facilitator Brenda Baird.

“Evidence Based” — But does it work?

Posted on February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 by Abigail Marshall

Parents seeking help for their dyslexic kids usually have one question uppermost in their minds: will it work?