![[PREMIUM] Crisis Schooling: The Dyslexia Edition](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/dawid-zawila-WuFMPPsYOg0-unsplash-400x250.jpg)
Are you going to be homeschooling or perhaps willing to give traditional school a try under the new rules? Teacher mom blogger Heather Ann said this: "You are NOT homeschooling. You are CRISIS schooling. There is a huge difference. You may choose to homeschool after...
Q: We would like to homeschool our son for the coming school year, but I would have to be the teaching parent and I'm dyslexic. Is this unrealistic or a bad idea? What advice do you have? A. Yes, it's still possible to homeschool, but as you might have...
Short answer: NO. As at least half of the schools across the country closed for health reasons, students from the earliest ages to post-graduates find themselves schooling from home, usually through online programs. In the best situations, students have smoothly or...
With many states ordering schools to remain shut for the remainder of the school year AND the prospect fall quarter may also be waived, there are certainly going to be gaps in math education. Parents and teachers must try to make as intelligent decisions as they can...
Based on what we know about the incidence of dyslexia and the number of students that are formally identified, for every 1 person who is told of their dyslexia, there are 3 who are missed. Recent legislation is focused on the early years of education...K-2 especially....
![[PREMIUM] Project-Based Learning for Dyslexic Students](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Project-Based-learning-2-400x250.jpg)
Related to the issue of digital portfolios is project-based learning. On the opposite page, there are quick reviews between learning through projects and true project-based learning or PBL. With PBL, the students assume a central role in the direction of the project and the end goal is to publish the project to the real world […]
It's not your imagination - it's much harder for most children and adults with dyslexia to learn long words - and it has nothing to do with intelligence. The sneaky reason is that for most dyslexic people, learning a random sequence of sounds puts more demands on...
![[PREMIUM] SURVIVING COLLEGE: Gifted Dyslexic Students Share Tips](https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Surviving-College-shutterstock_428467363-400x250.jpg)
When we had a clinic, some of the best study strategy advice came through talking to our gifted students…especially as we saw them over the course of years. Recently, I noticed a research paper by Reis et al. in Gifted Child Quarterly that had a number of great student insights that I thought would be […]
Many students get confused about "like" terms in Math, but it's not their fault. The terminology is confusing. Purple Math has a nice page on this post. In Algebra, "like terms" refers to terms that have the exact same variable raised to the same power. WATCH YOUTUBE...
Q: My 15 year old daughter was recently found to be severely dyslexic. Her public high school has set her to enroll her in an online high school because her local school can't meet her needs. We've been told that her vocabulary is weak. What program would you...
Learning doubles math facts can help with number flexibility. After learning how to count and "count on", doubles may be the next skill to learn. Origo Education has a nice post about how to introduce and practice doubling facts with students. First, students look for...
"The ability to recognize objects from various view-points has advantages in perceiving one's environment, allowing one to identify a potential threat from many different views...(however) this trait of the object recognition system is disadvantageous for reading...."...
