Learning With a Divergent Mind
March 29, 2021
I’m offering a series of online classes for parents and teachers in April on Zoom. Does your child struggle to sound out words?Do they find reading tiring? Boring? Frustrating? Slow?Do they have difficulty recognizing a word from one page to Read more…
October 6, 2020
The short answer is immediately! Not all children who struggle with learning to read have dyslexia, but many do. I know a number of parents and educators who take the approach that some children who struggle aren’t ready yet for Read more…
March 26, 2020
As we collectively turn in to home for the foreseeable future, many good resources are now available for free. The resources I’ve listed below are particularly useful for kids with dyslexia. Audio books are an excellent resource for people with Read more…
November 12, 2019
Absolutely! Approximately 20% of the population has dyslexia, and that includes both adults and kids. Just because an adult can read (and there are many who can’t read or can’t read well, but hide it) does not mean they don’t Read more…
October 15, 2019
There are so many interconnections in our brains that it is impossible to completely separate one function from another. Often when people talk about dyslexia they are referring specifically to a difficulty with reading which is the literal definition of Read more…
June 6, 2019
You will have a difficult time finding any activity that a child with dyslexia hates more than reading, unless perhaps it is writing or spelling. Reading is such an exhausting, frustrating, and emotionally loaded activity for someone with dyslexia, it Read more…
May 31, 2019
We often associate doing our best with achieving the same results, or better, every time. Doing your best is not about results, it is about the effort applied to the task. This seems very simple and obvious to say, but Read more…
March 22, 2019
“Just as a parent would not think of ignoring her [or his] child’s scheduled physical with his pediatrician, every parent should regularly observe her [or his] child reading. Given the high prevalence of reading difficulties, it is much more likely Read more…
March 21, 2019
One of the ideas I worked very hard to reinforce to my kids was that having dyslexia did not mean that there was anything wrong with them. It’s a genetic variation in how the brain processes information that has its Read more…