Educational Bias and Dyslexic Learners
Researchers know that dyslexics learn to read differently, but schools continue to focus on children’s weaknesses rather than their strengths.
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You can flip the switch!
If you think of your brain as a power grid, there are billions of pathways or roads, lighting up every time you think, feel or do something. Every time we think in a certain way, practice a particular task, or feel an emotion, we strengthen a road.
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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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Embracing my Dyslexia
Before I started my author’s journey, only three people knew I had dyslexia. I was always embarrassed about it and didn’t like to admit I needed help.
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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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Finding Fluency
All I wanted was for my son to become a reader. I wanted him to be able to read easily and automatically, without effort.
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Is your child a “nonresponder”?
What happens when a child cannot learn to read through phonics? Educational researchers have a word for those children: they
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How do you read to your child?
[Updated] Reading story books to small children is fun, but did you know that the way you read can make a big difference in preparing your child to become a reader?
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Wider letter spacing helps dyslexic children read
Updated: A study shows that wider spacing between the letters in reading materials can help dyslexic children read faster and better.
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Good Fonts for Dyslexia – An Experimental Study
Updated: Research does not support claims that use of a specially designed custom font for dyslexia leads to improved reading performance.
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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
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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
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