News & Views from Davis Dyslexia Association International
The sweaty palms…the flip-flopping stomach… the brain-fog… reading questions repeatedly. I wonder how many of you can identify with test-taking anxiety. Even years after being in school, some of us still have nightmares about taking tests in school.
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Dyslexic children often experience difficulty with phonetic decoding. Researchers and educators use nonsense words – also called nonwords or psuedowords
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Making the academic leap from high school to higher education can be challenging for any student. For students with dyslexia,
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Explore the three main considerations for dealing with dyslexia and the SAT or ACT.
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The Paradigm of a Learning Disability
In this video I talk about the current paradigm of learning disabilities and how I believe that we, as dyslexics, parents,
Dyslexic Note-Taking: How to Double Your Memory Performance
Visual note-taking is a great way to boost memory performance for anybody who is willing to try. We are able to
My Dyslexic Life – Following Instructions
A Trip to the Physio: In this segment I’m talking about how overwhelmed we can get when we have lots of
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.
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, different