Deep Dive into Self-Compassion
In a nutshell, self-compassion is being kind and understanding when confronted with personal failings rather than judging and self-criticizing for inadequacies or shortcomings. It is asking yourself “Would I say...
An Interview on Special Education with Pamela Guest, Chief Editor at IEP Magazine
Pamela Guest is the Founder and Chief Editor at IEP Magazine. More importantly, she is one of us, a parent of a dyslexic. She struggled throughout her son’s education,...
3 Ways to Support your Dyslexic Child
Encourage your child by focusing on strengths and minimizing stress.
Focus on the whole child - not just academics!
Reading Fluency in Dyslexic Brain: Low Level/ High Content Books
Practice makes perfect. Better said, practice makes progress. Learning a new skill requires repetition to automate it. Similarly, every beginner reader needs to practice reading to improve fluency. Add...
Sleep Deprived Dyslexic
The longest activity in a typical day is sleeping. High quality and right quantity of sleep at the right time is more critical than most of us realize. The...
“Mommy! I want my FISH OIL!” declared my 7-yr old son…
Is this April’s Fools Day??? My 7 year old son is asking me to give him fish oil… I guess it worked! SCORE: Mom +1. The best thing, it...
Five Steps to Boost a Young Dyslexic’s Self-Confidence
Dyslexia, often described as a hidden reading disability, causes difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols.
Teaching Japanese to dyslexic students
While in Western countries the dyslexia phenomenon has been closely explored, in the Japanese education community problems of dyslexics has been silenced for a long time, and only with...
The Fundamentals of Learning
You can’t love learning if you struggle with it. Learning should be a lifelong obsession that starts at an early age. Children should feel passionate about it and understand...
More than just a memory, it was an EXPERIENCE!
Frustrating. That’s it. Hugely frustrating dealing, with stereotypes and misperceptions that cloud the field of dyslexia. It’s the closed mindedness that gets to me; although the words uninformed, unwilling,...