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Tips From Hannah: College Junior with a 4.0 [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Apr 8, 2021 | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, College, dyslexia, Dyslexic Advantages, Education, Learning, Premium, Premium Content

KNOW YOUR STRENGTHS – SELF-ADVOCATE – Early in group work, let your fellow students know that you’re dyslexic. Say, “I’m dyslexic, so I can’t read or write well, but I’m creative and can come up with ideas.” – Don’t be afraid of asking students to read things for you. You can help more if people read things aloud to you. – Research on RateMyProfessor ahead of time to find teachers that will work with you re: dyslexia. Are there any warning signs? I like choosing professors who like a lot of class participation. ASK FOR SUBSITUTIONS IF YOU NEED THEM When snow days upset the schedule at school, Hannah had to face learning material and putting together an assignment over Thanksgiving break without the help […]

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Breakthrough Books: Getting Hooked On Books

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Apr 8, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, Books, Children's Books, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Literature, Reading

Do you remember the book or books that got you hooked on reading? It's not always what you might expect. Academy Award winning actress Octavia Spencer says the only reason why she's able to read today is that she got hooked on Encyclopedia Brown books. Those books...

Going Back: Learning To Live With The New Normal

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Apr 8, 2021 | Accommodations, Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Modifications, Parents, Technology, Work

This is an old post from the early peak post-COVID times. We'll leave this up in case some of the advice is helpful. Whether it's you going back to work, or your children trying a new part-in school, part-remote school routine, many of us will be having to adjust to...

Online Certifications

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Apr 3, 2021 | Accommodations, Careers, College, dyslexia, Work

With some jobs and higher educations up in the air because of the pandemic, some college graduates and workers are looking to online certification programs to improve their future job prospects or salary. Certificates may be highly desirable or required for certain...

Resilience with Entrepreneur Rob Law

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Apr 3, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Entrepreneur, Famous People with Dyslexia

Across the pond, there's an entrepreneur who has a lot of grit and resilience. It might be because he was faced with adversity from day 1, because he was also born with cystic fibrosis and never expected to have a full life span. He is dyslexic, and also faced shaming...

How a 13-Year Old Dyslexic Girl Helped Save Britain: Hazel Hill

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Apr 3, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Gifted, MIND strengths

"My mother was partially dyslexic, and she had terrible trouble spelling. This got her into trouble as she was obviously highly intelligent, so teachers thought she was naughty and lazy. I think when she did mathematics, she had none of these problems, which is why it...

Talking Through Math [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Apr 3, 2021 | Dyscalculia, dyslexia, Education, Learning, Math, Parents, Premium, Premium Content, Strategies, Teachers, Teaching

As the pandemic continues, more and more parents and tutors may find themselves supervising students’ math. For dyslexic students, the talking process can be especially valuable, but it may be difficult. If you are a parent or tutor helping explain a lesson or homework, it’s good to help your student talk through the steps of math; this may be especially difficult for some students. If a student has trouble finding words or has a limited working memory, talking through math may be difficult for a while until either or both of these functions develop. Such students may especially benefit when YOU talk through math, slowly and precisely. There are also ways to make the talking process easier – like having a list of math vocabulary […]

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Reading and Mathematics [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Mar 26, 2021 | Dyscalculia, dyslexia, Education, Learning, Math, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Strategies, Teaching

“Mathematics texts are more conceptually dense than almost any other type of text…Additionally, reading mathematics often differs from other types of reading because in addition to reading left to right and top to bottom, students must jump around the page to associate text with tables, graphs, symbols, and vice-versa…” The subject of reading in math class often receives very little attention in explicit instruction, because most math teachers receive little training in the specific needs of dyslexic students; in some cases, neglect of these needs may the primary reason that students underperform in this important school subject. Math teachers get little or no instruction in teaching students with dyslexia, although dyslexic students are likely to comprise 1 in 5 of their students. “…many mathematics textbooks […]

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STEM / STEAM: Dr. Doresa Jennings, Steam Chasers

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Mar 8, 2021 | Being Dyslexic, Books, Children's Books, dyslexia, Reading, Science

Dr. Doresa Jennings is the author of an exciting book series that has positive role models for dyslexia and underrepresented minorities, and it's an exciting book with humor and amazing facts. From Doresa's successful Kickstarter: "Middle Grade readers (9-12 year...

Cultivating a LOVE of Reading

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Jan 22, 2020 | Books, dyslexia, Reading

Q: Can my student fall in love with reading? A: Yes it's possible. The Cult of Pedagogy explored this topic from an opposite point of view, but the challenge is a formidable one, especially if a reader is dyslexic. GOOD THINGS TO DO Allow kids time to read for...

Teacher of the Year Again, CHAD BEAM

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Jan 9, 2020 | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Teachers

"My teachers loved me first and taught me second..." - Chad Beam 3x Teacher of the Year Chad Beam has won Burns High School's Teacher of the Year for the 3rd time in 2019. From the Shelby Star: "That floors me. I'm the dyslexic kid. I'm teaching what I...

Connecting the Dots

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | Jul 17, 2019 | Books, dyslexia, Reading

"It’s refreshing to read about someone else so successful that thinks like me because of how their brain is wired, which has often only been seen as a learning disability. I’ve always known I had a different way of seeing the world which became more apparent when I...