Learning With a Divergent Mind
October 26, 2021
Why do you read? Why don’t you read? Both of these questions get to the heart of reading and teaching reading. I read because I love learning new ideas, escaping to other places, times or worlds. I am unusual because Read more…
October 26, 2021
If your child is struggling with school, I can guarantee that both you and your child are feeling a lot of pressure from many sources; yourself, your child, parents or even grandparents, peers, teachers, etc.. The pressure is often well-meant, Read more…
October 26, 2021
The very best support you can give a person with dyslexia is knowledge and understanding of what dyslexia is and is not. In order to help your child successfully learn, you will first need to understand dyslexia and how it Read more…
October 26, 2021
A feeling of uncertainty and being overwhelmed is a common response to realizing your child is struggling with reading and/or is dyslexic. It is a lot to take in. In my personal experience, even with knowing for years that dyslexia 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…
October 6, 2019
One of the biggest challenges with dyslexia is that so few people, even educators, know what it is (and isn’t) or how to identify it. It is often termed a silent disability, but to quote Dr. Kelli Sandman-Hurley, “Many people Read more…
September 18, 2019
You may (or may not) have noticed that I haven’t been posting here much over the summer. There were many changes in our household over the summer, all good ones, that gave us the opportunity to get out canoeing and Read more…