![Dyslexia and Foreign Language Learning [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/hello-foreign-language-pixabay.png)
"...reading, writing, listening and speaking skills in foreign languages are all significantly affected by weaknesses in linguistic coding skills even when the native language has been been well-mastered..." - Elike Schneider and Margaret Crombie in Dyslexia...
![Dyslexia Journal Club – Spelling Strategies – What Does Research Say? [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/shutterstock_357545264.jpg)
In a recent paper from Montreal, research tested dyslexic students ages 9-11 to see which spelling strategies were more effective. The most common strategy children use to spell is phonological, whether they are or aren’t dyslexic. The other common strategies children use for spelling are visuol-orthographic, analogy, and backup. The phonological strategy used phoneme-grapheme correspondence. […]
![Shakespeare and Dyslexia – Making Words Physical [Premium]](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/shakepeare-pixabay.jpg)
Today is National Shakespeare Day, and dyslexia and Shakespeare have been on our minds. We recently mentioned that Lloyd Everitt (yes, he’s dyslexic) is the youngest actor to play Othello at Shakespeare’s own Globe Theater. But we’ve also been thinking about Shakespeare recently because, on our trip down to California, we had the pleasure of […]
