Positive Affirmations
A dyslexic woman and successful tech...
The Importance of Guided Repeated Oral Reading in Training of Skilled Readers
= In recent years, research on reading...
Math Difficulties Common with Dyslexia
Although the pace of research into...
Beyond Behavior: Attention, Working Memory, or Something Else?
The problem with trying to diagnose with...
Free Back To School Reading Apps
Some of the most common free apps that dyslexic students use for school.
Storytelling as a Dyslexic Strength
Storytelling is not simply a language skill. It is a form of reasoning. Recognizing these strengths helps shift how we think about writing instruction and creative expression.
Learning from Children with Dyslexia
By Margaret Rooke For the past ten years, I’ve been listening to children, teens, and others with dyslexia. It’s been a fascinating journey, teaching me what can help them do well and what leaves them struggling. It’s shown me how we can all be that adult supporting a young person with dyslexia – it can cost nothing, and it can change lives. I’ve written books to allow children and teenagers to tell others what they know and to help them feel less alone. My latest is for young children: Meet the Dyslexia Club! The Amazing Talents, Skills and Everyday Life of Children with Dyslexia. For this I’ve created young characters who talk about their lives, with many of their words coming from real children […]
Face-to-face Film Producer: Brian Grayzer
I heard Brian Grayzer's name mentioned on lists of Hollywood producers who are dyslexic, but only recently learned more about the backstory and motivations for making the films that he does. First, Brian's dyslexia: "I was getting all F’s, maybe an occasional D, but I...
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Dyslexic Doctors [Premium]
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Fourth Grade Slump: Trouble Reading Long Words [Premium]
“The words have more syllables, and many children have difficulty reading multisyllable words. There are children who can decode fairly well at a one-syllable level but do not know how to read words accurately and fluently when they must read through longer words. Since most decoding instruction stops by second grade at the latest, children are not being directly taught how to read multisyllable words just at the point when these words begin to become prevalent. Furthermore, fluency is expected by the intermediate grades and not knowing how to read multisyllable words negatively affects a child’s ability to read smoothly.”- Faith Borkowsky After the initial joy and relief of being able to decode words, many dyslexic students find that specific reading instruction at school disappears. […]
Harrison Ford: Han Solo, Indiana Jones, Jack Ryan, Late Bloomer
Late blooming is a typical profile for dyslexic young people because their talents and their challenges are all over the place – and things you’re supposed to learn in school (reading, writing, arithmetic) are difficult if not impossible to automate.
Writing: Narrowing the Open-Ended Prompt
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Before Structured Literacy: Auditory Training [Premium]
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Games for Dyslexia Remediation [Premium]
Because many dyslexic students need more repetitions to master certain language tasks, adding little games to learning not only makes the time pass more quickly, it also makes learning time more memorable. Repurposing Games First of all, don’t feel as if you need to buy lots of new materials in order to gamify your learning time. I recently visited a friend, Dr. Nicole Swedberg, who has been a dyslexia tutor for many years and she let me take a picture of her game cabinet. Anything can be used as a reward. For board games, roll and read a sentence is a simple way to make the time pass quickly. If you’ve ever played Jenga the wood block tower game, giving a student a Jenga piece […]
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The Problem of Place Value [Premium]
Understanding place value is critical for math, but dyslexic students may struggle due to errors in sequencing, directionality, and substitution. This blog post explores common challenges dyslexic learners face with place value, strategies like using base ten blocks and graph paper to help, and why reviewing place value remains essential even for older students.
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How Dyslexia Can Affect Speech [Premium]
Although reading and writing have been the emphasis in dyslexia, dyslexia can affect speaking in many ways. First, because dyslexia can affect auditory processing – children or adults mishear sounds in spoken language and these errors can be heard in mispronunciation mistakes. But mispronunciations can also occur due to phonological difficulties. In addition, the rapid automatized naming (RAN) difficulties described as part of a “double-deficit” in some individuals with dyslexia causes significant trouble with retrieving words, leading to pauses and saying the wrong words and a general irregular pace of speech. The tests for RAN involve having subjects quickly name pictures that they easily recognize and know the names for. RAN difficulties can predict later reading problems, and at any age, it can contribute to […]
VISUAL THINKING AND INNOVATION: THOMAS WEST and BRANDON KING
Tom was one of the early pioneers in the dyslexia strengths movement. In an earlier interview, I learned from Tom about how he first heard about the word "dyslexia." A relatively new friend of his in Washington DC was describing his son. At the time, Tom said he...
VISUAL THINKING AND INNOVATION: THOMAS WEST and BRANDON KING
Dyslexic Advantage is in for a treat on August 21st when DA Board member and author Thomas G West and robotics innovator Brandon King hold an exclusive event for donors online to raise funds for Dyslexic Advantage. Sign up HERE. Tom was one of the early...
TEMPERAMENT: WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH DYSLEXIA?
Temperament has been compared to a person's emotional disposition - or their flavor of responding behaviorally and emotionally to the world. Temperament is a part of a person's personality - which also includes things like humor, intelligence, interests, and...
Finding Strengths and Career Success
"There are many ways to enter a house. You can go in the window, the back door, the front door, the side door. Ok, so if I couldn't go in the front door, I'll get in the house some other way. " - Louise, independent global line producer for film and video The world...
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Calculator Use: Accommodation or No? [Premium]
A teacher writes, “I have a new student who transferred from a public charter school. She has an IEP accommodation for a calculator use for anything involving math calculations. But I’m wondering whether providing a calculator is changing standards? Is she learning how to use a calculator rather than learning how to do math? Where do we draw the line?” I’m glad you asked this question. I think more teacher and parents ask themselves this question than you may realize. Dyscalculia is one of the least recognized “specific learning disabilities.” In the past ten years, there’s been a revolution in our understanding of the scientific basis of dyscalculia, but in day-to-day practice, there’s remarkably little in the way of practical guidance for both teachers and […]
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