Dyslexia and My Academic Life
I knew I was different long before anyone informed me of a formal diagnosis. Letters never flew in the same way to me, the way so many of friends seemed to have effortlessly understood them.
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I knew I was different long before anyone informed me of a formal diagnosis. Letters never flew in the same way to me, the way so many of friends seemed to have effortlessly understood them.
Continue readingTo-do lists have never worked for me. I always start with good intentions, and I do write lots and lots
Continue readingMaybe you’ve heard it before– “Dyslexics have a bad memory”–but this isn’t completely true. Let’s look to science (Baddeley’s model
Continue readingHelp, I forgot everything! I regularly have children who tell me that they have “forgotten everything” about lessons they have
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Frustration. Irritation. Tears. And not just your child’s. Learning difficulties affect the whole family– especially the dedicated parents who are trying so hard to help.
Explaining dyslexia is often done by focusing only on the dyslexic person. But understanding the role of the social environment is important because it makes us realize that we are not the problem.
Receiving comments, advice, pointers and feedback is an immensely important part of human learning and development.
Sam is nearly thirteen, and despite having been in an intensive, structured literacy programme twice a week for over six years, he only had 10-15 sight words. I was desperate and couldn’t think how to help him.
When something is backed by science, it implies “proof“. There are various ways this is done but in the areas of social science, evidence-based methods are used .and hence the term “Science of Reading” has emerged.
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