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Books: The Illustrated Guide to Dyslexia and Its Amazing People

Nothing is worse to explain dyslexia to parents and children than a predominantly text based book that uses language such as ‘orthographic processing’, or ‘phonemic awareness’.  It isn’t that these concepts aren’t important to understand, but when beginning the journey Read more…


Books: Creative Successful Dyslexic

I am always on the search for books that have a balanced or positive perspective on dyslexia.  Learning that you or your child has dyslexia can be a very isolating experience, and many of the books intended to be helpful Read more…


Books: The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan

In my previous post, Can Someone With Dyslexia Love to Read?, I referenced a book by Ben Foss called The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan.**  Over the years I have read a number of books about dyslexia, and they all had one Read more…