It can be difficult to find free reading resources for middle and high school readers, but the non-profit SERP (Strategic Education Research Partnership) has a free engaging downloadable curriculum. The printed materials can also be purchased for classrooms. ...
Novelist Natasha Solomons
"Books are my refuge, but I had to overcome dyslexia to write the stories I was bursting to tell." — Natasha Solomons Natasha is a lifelong storyteller, but it took a lot of persistence and resilience to get those stories out. As a child, she listened to...
Study Hacking The Paper Driver’s License Test [Premium]
The Washington state driver's license paper and pencil test can be a difficult one for dyslexic drivers. Having seen some of the sample questions, there's a lot more number trivia compared to the California test I passed many years ago. Whether you don't drink...
Reading and Learning are About Thinking [Premium]
"Then a strange thing happened. The more I started thinking about what we were studying, the easier it was to remember the facts. Facts began to stick in my head — and I didn’t even have to try to make it happen..." — Don Johnston, CEO After using Don...
Non-Reading Ways to Recognize Dyslexia [Premium]
Last month, I was surprised when one of the teachers in our Dyslexia for Teachers course said that a writing sample couldn't lead anyone to suspect a student had dyslexia because dyslexia was a reading disorder. Of course, that statement is wrong. ...
Visualizing for a Living [Premium]
“My mind is very visual: I can see anything in pictures, and I always visualize things. I can’t help it. It’s how I’m wired. So whatever you talk about, I’ll see pictures in my head. Very vivid, colorful, lifelike pictures. They aren’t still pictures. I can make them...
The Voice Inside Your Head [Premium]
“When I was eight years old, a school psychologist gave me a bit of advice about my brain. He said I may have a form of brain damage, and he wanted to send me to a special class. I was a classic dyslexic: I wasn't born with a good memory, and I couldn't concentrate;...
Recovering from Pandemic Loss
Numbers are starting to trickle in from February testing and the good news is that things are beginning to recover, but younger grades are behind more than older children. The numbers below are all students, without dyslexic students studied separately, but if...
Avoiding the Third Grade Madness
If you're the parent of a third grade child with dyslexia in the public school system, your student may be having an especially difficult time. Some of the struggle might be understandable as classrooms attempt to move past learning to decode to reading to...
Complementary Cognition
" ...our current education and work environments are often not designed to make the most of dyslexia associated thinking, we hope this research provides a starting point for further exploration of the economic, cultural and social benefits the whole of society can...
Working through Higher Math [Premium]
"An algebra equation should have a physical meaning to it, and have good real world examples..." - Gary McGregor, PhD Gary McGregor has a a lot to say when it comes to math because he survived dropping out of high school, knowing only the basics of math...
From High School Drop-Out to VP of Engineering [Premium]
There are some people who are so insightful into their cognitive processes that talking to them is pure gold. Gary MacGregor is one of those people - he's a VP of an electronic device company and recent PhD recipient from the University of Texas at Austin. He has a...