Dyslexia – The Elephant in the Room
In this “Elephant in the Room” series, I define and address the “elephants” that are often so hard to find
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Category: Learning to Read
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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How a Davis Program Turned my Son’s Life Around
The 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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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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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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Two Misleading Myths about Dyslexia
Over the years I have confronted two persistent myths about dyslexia. These myths seem contradictory, but both are based on a misunderstanding of dyslexia. And both also stand in the way of dyslexic children receiving meaningful and effective help.
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Drop Everything and Read for Dyslexia!
DEAR is a literacy challenge- it stands for ‘Drop Everything and Read’. But it’s not a way of reading that
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Comprehension Strategies win out
Reviews of long-term effects of school-based reading interventions show that consistent teaching of comprehension strategies is more effective than explicit teaching of phonics.
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The expense of doing Davis, the cost of not!
In this video, I answer a question about the expense of doing a Davis program with a facilitator and talk about the price of the Davis kits for home use.
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British Dyslexia Association calls for education shift beyond phonics
The British Dyslexia Association says that dyslexic children cannot learn to read from phonics teaching alone.
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The Phonics Trap
Dyslexic children who fall behind in the early years of their schooling usually perform poorly on tests of phonemic awareness or phonetic decoding.
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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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