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Brilliant Actress Morfydd Clark [Premium]

Brilliant Actress Morfydd Clark [Premium]

by | Dec 18, 2022 | , , , , ,

“When on stage, I have good concentration. When I don’t find something interesting, I can’t concentrate.” — Morfydd Clark   Brilliant, beautiful, and brave actress Morfydd Clark is mesmerizing in Rings of Power as the Elven warrior Galadriel. “I wasn’t great in class and suffered from dyslexia and ADHD; still do. As a result I could never sit in class listening quietly, and my attention would inevitably end up wandering after a short while.” — Morfydd Clark Morfydd had long been a fan of Lord of the Rings because her father had read The Hobbit to her and she had listened to Lord of the Rings on audiobooks. She has said that she felt that her bilingual background helped her relate to Galadriel because Galadriel would think […]

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Dyslexia and Math: Knowing Why [Premium]

Dyslexia and Math: Knowing Why [Premium]

by | Dec 18, 2022 | , , , , , ,

It’s been estimated that almost half of dyslexic individuals will also be dyscalculic (Wilson et al., 2014), but dyscalculia is less likely to be assessed or formally identified in school, leaving students to flounder on their own.   WHY IS DYSLEXIA COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH MATH LD? Experts still debate why there is such significant overlap, but at least one recent study found that spatial difficulties were especially associated with students with dyscalculia or those with both dyslexia and dyscalculia. Besides spatial factors, difficulties in sequencing, trouble with symbols, working memory overload, and rote math fact retrieval are all difficulties commonly seen among dyslexic students and those with dyscalculia. What is not particularly common among dyslexic students is difficulty with math reasoning – in fact for […]

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Dyslexic Advantages in Electrical Engineering [Premium]

Dyslexic Advantages in Electrical Engineering [Premium]

by | Dec 18, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , ,

A TALE OF TWO STORIES “At the beginning I can remember looking at blackboards or pages of text having no idea what other kids around me were seeing. For me the pages may have well as been blank for all I could glean from them. However I was lucky as when I started my secondary school my teacher spotted that I was having problems. I was tested for dyslexia and found to have a mild form… By the time I left I had poor grades and was told I would not amount to much…” Same person: “I became interested in geeky stuff when I was less than ten years old. I remember being given a toy wind up clock that you could open the back […]

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The Power of the List [Premium]

The Power of the List [Premium]

by | Dec 11, 2022 | , , , , , , , ,

For many of us, hearing about a new technology, app, or software can result in mixed feelings. We may have hope about better organizing and simplifying our lives, but also have reasonable worry about a difficult learning curve, a complicated interface, or any number of problems that can prevent us from reaping the benefits of whatever thing we are hoping might help. Enter – the simple list. If you have a weak short term or working memory, but great long-term memory and you don’t like reading lots of extra text, then lists may be the perfect productivity tool for you. Putting something down on a list can offload your working memory, but also have the benefits of reinforcing the big picture, while never losing sight […]

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Finding Your Voice [Premium]

Finding Your Voice [Premium]

by | Dec 11, 2022 | , , , , , , ,

Finding one’s voice is an existential issue for many – but for dyslexic folks in particular, it can be a difficult because of the nature of their challenges early in life and, of course, the school business. From a practical perspective, dyslexia can create many obstacles in expression and people may be trapped not being able to reveal the depth of their feeling and understanding. Even when the reading issues get remediated and accommodated and writing gets easier, many will still struggle – and that may drift into the adult years. WHAT TO DO? There’s a saying, “Use it or lose it”, and the dilemma for those who may have some trouble expressing their ideas is that they are more likely to be inhibited about […]

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Not Over Hurdles, But Around Them

Not Over Hurdles, But Around Them

by | Dec 9, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , ,

If you have moderate to severe dyslexia, chances are that you’ve encountered many obstacles on path to higher education and career. The farther one gets in education, the more one can recognize that much of education deals with writing about things rather than doing them. If you can find a program that is more hands-on and real world problem solving, you may have hit the jackpot; if not, you may have heard the lecture that some thing that you want to do is impossible or out of-reach, but it may not be. You may need to find your way around a hurdle and not over it – like others of your peer group. Spiky profile dyslexics may find themselves getting A’s in physics, science, and […]

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Reading Beyond Level

Reading Beyond Level

by | Dec 8, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , ,

Don’t restrict students to decodable readers. It’s a little like trying to feed an elephant one blade of grass at a time.   Reading decodable books has an important place in structured literacy programs for dyslexic students, but recently some in the reading community have been calling for “phonics-only” or “phonics-first” and this is not a good idea. Recently Emeritus Literacy Professor Timothy Shanahan from the University of Illinois at Chicago has also called these policies as overreach. From his recent blog post: “The National Reading Panel report (2000) is oft cited as the major support for phonics instruction. We found (I was a member of the panel) that explicit, systematic phonics instruction helped students to become better readers – based on a meta-analysis of […]

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Co-founder Brett Kopf’s Journey to Success with Remind and Omella

Co-founder Brett Kopf’s Journey to Success with Remind and Omella

by | Dec 8, 2022 | , , , , , , , , , , ,

“…Can I just start off by making a blanket statement that I think dyslexia can be such a gift?” — Brett Kopf   Brett Kopf is co-founder of Remind and Omella, two companies that grew out of his interest in solving problems that mission-driven organizations and schools face. Brett’s path from struggling in school and spending almost every day in the principal’s office, to difficulty deciding on a career path in college (agriculture?) seem disconnected to his remarkable success as a business co-founder, but there were signs of his talents even as a child. Brett remember enjoying talking to his principal, and in his job today he likes talking to customers and figuring out what they need and then brainstorming about how what he could […]

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Gifted with Dyslexia Middle School : Move Ahead or Fall Back? [Premium]

Gifted with Dyslexia Middle School : Move Ahead or Fall Back? [Premium]

by | Nov 27, 2022 | , ,

Question: My daughter is in middle school and although she’s qualified for advanced programs, I’m not sure whether it is a good idea to keep her in those classes or move her back. What should she do? Answer: For gifted dyslexic students, decisions on whether to move ahead or hold back depends on several factors. STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES First, it’s best to take an honest look at a student’s strengths and challenges. Students with very high conceptual and oral verbal abilities may find it frustrating being placed in classes that have little intellectual challenge or verbally-matched peers. Highly gifted twice-exceptional students may have trouble feeling that they fit in, but poor fits can also contribute significantly to poor self-esteem, behavioral problems, and mood disorders like […]

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Teen with Newly-Diagnosed Dysgraphia: Will It Get Better ? [Premium]

Teen with Newly-Diagnosed Dysgraphia: Will It Get Better ? [Premium]

by | Nov 26, 2022 | , ,

Dysgraphia (writing disability) is commonly seen with dyslexia. It does improve over time and can be improved by different approaches and training depending on the source. Many aspects of dysgraphia remain lifelong, though, and it’s common for adults with dysgraphia to opt to use computers and assistive technology when they have to write extensively for work or pleasure. It’s important to identify dysgraphia whatever the age because students with dysgraphia often need accommodations for routine classroom assignments and classroom and standardized tests. Students will need one and a half to twice the time for tests as well as the option to test orally and reduce the quantity of work. Severely dysgraphic students may need to type with word prediction and word correction software or speech-to-text. […]

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Getting Started: Dyslexic Cognition – Procrastination, Daydreaming, Working Memory Overload [Premium]

Getting Started: Dyslexic Cognition – Procrastination, Daydreaming, Working Memory Overload [Premium]

by | Nov 20, 2022 | , ,

“What is the best way to start working if you’re dyslexic? It’s not always what you think. For parents supervising homework, the “starting to work” process for their students can look maddening. You may clear away distractions, put them at an empty dining table, make sure they have everything they need – then peek in an hour or even two later…and nothing has happened. They may be looking up at the ceiling, twiddling a pencil, or surfing on the internet. Is there a better way? Or maybe this is you as an adult. You know you have to do something, but you can’t seem to get started. Is it procrastination or something else? Without completely getting into the weeds of how the brain works, I […]

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The Tricky Teen Numbers [Premium]

The Tricky Teen Numbers [Premium]

by | Nov 19, 2022 | , , ,

THE TRICKY TEEN NUMBERS Some of the difficulties that dyslexic individuals have learning math involve ambiguities or inconsistencies that other people don’t seem to notice. It’s a common finding that dyslexic students need to know why and not just that something is done in a specific way. But when the systems themselves are illogical or inconsistent, then confusion happens. It is better then to explicitly discuss inconsistencies and “”exceptions”” as they exist in a system – whether it’s part of the English language or part of math language and notation. For those people with rote memory strengths who are happy to memorize anything without making sense of things first – the troubles some may have with ‘teen’ numbers may come as a bit of a […]

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