Learning With a Divergent Mind
April 27, 2019
There is nothing like the feeling of relief and success you feel when your child begins to actually read! Suddenly, each and every word isn’t a struggle, sentences start to sound like connected words, and most importantly your child feels Read more…
May 8, 2019
Absolutely! I am a big fan of audiobooks for people with dyslexia, provided that the student has good auditory skills and doesn’t just tune out an audiobook. Reading Fluency Depends on Combining the Auditory and the Visual Read more…
February 25, 2019
One of the more difficult skills for a person with dyslexia to develop is reading fluency. Reading fluency is the ability to read quickly, accurately, with full comprehension and expression. The transition from beginning reader to fluent reader takes time Read more…
February 21, 2019
If you have a child who is having difficulty learning to read, you’ll easily recognize this frustration! Your child has successfully (although perhaps slowly) read a new word. Then on the next day, or on the next page, or even Read more…
February 21, 2019
In my last post I talked about the value of teaching reading with whole words along with Orton-Gillingham phonic instruction. I am not interested in engaging in the reading wars, I just want to make people aware that there is Read more…
February 25, 2019
Many people who teach children with dyslexia will be quick to respond that phonics, specifically Orton-Gillingham based phonics, is the only way to effectively teach reading. It is effective in the long term, which is backed by multiple studies, but Read more…