"Audio books, turned out to be the most powerful tool I had in my toolkit." - Yvonna Graham, MEd., author Dyslexia Toolkit Despite the widespread availability of text-to-speech and audiobooks, it's only a small percentage of people who discover and use these tools....
Chat with Tristan Morris: Audiobook Narrator for The Dyslexic Advantage
Our updated 2023 version of The Dyslexic Advantage is available in audiobook from places like Amazon / Audible, and Brock and I enjoyed hearing Tristan's narration, so we reached out to him for this interview. Brock listens to books at a high speed of playback and he...
Question: Advice for a Student Who Does Not Want to Disclose in High School
It is very common for people to want to choose whether they want to formally disclose their dyslexia, and to whom. This may change over the years and of course depending on particular contexts. WHY DOES A STUDENT CHOOSE NOT TO DISCLOSE IN HIGH SCHOOL? Some...
What Should We Do This Summer?
Summer is usually a great time for dyslexic students - out of the daily grind of school. Hopefully the pandemic truly is easing and more activities are returning to normal. TAKE A BREAK Students have been working hard and under stress these past months, so make...
Questions and Answers
From our recent virtual lecture for the Hamlin Robinson Speaker Series, here are a few questions from viewers: QUESTION: How do you separate vision processing disorders from dyslexia? How do you think about these? Also same with auditory processing disorders like...
Jershika Maple Sings Her Heart Out On “The Voice”
"Jershika dedicated her song to the fourth and fifth grade teachers who helped Maple discover she had dyslexia, and it was filled with emotion and power..." — Taste of Country Jershika Maple described the alienation she felt as a 4th grader in Louisiana being...
In Memoriam: Patience Thomson
"Thomson played a leading role in the slow transition from the condition being perceived as a learning difficulty to the championing of many dyslexic children as creatively gifted. She liked to recall showing a child a picture of a dinosaur and asking him what letter...
Managing Worry When There’s So Much To Worry About
Every day, it seems as if we are being presented with something new — increased COVID cases, businesses closing, schools maybe opening — as well as having to deal with our new normal: wearing masks, keeping distance, not going...
International Schools (Outside the US) with Support for Students with Learning Differences – State Department List
[pdf-embedder url="https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Department-of-State-Schools.pdf" title="Department of State Schools"] Download pdf HERE. Jay, a member of our community - shared this US State Department list of schools outside...
Karina Eide Memorial College Scholarship Winners 2018
[pdf-embedder url="https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Scholarship-2018.compressed.pdf"] To Read with ReciteMe: https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Scholarship-2018.compressed.pdf
The Curious History of Mirror Writing [PREMIUM]
“As a researcher, working over two decades with hundreds of children and adults with dyslexia, I’m convinced that Leonard Da Vinci was dyslexic.” – Dr Maryann Wolf, author Proust and the Squid Mirror writing occurs commonly in dyslexic and non-dyslexic children between the ages of 3 and 7 years, however a subset of children will […]
California Dyslexia Guidelines
We are posting the California Dyslexia Guideline here as a convenience to our members who would like to use ReciteMe to listen to the document. FYI: the document uses 'disability' framework of dyslexia and reflects the particular orientation of the authors. Excerpt:...