A school in the Highlands has stopped setting homework for its 175 pupils. The decision was taken at Highland Council-run Inverlochy Primary in Fort William after the children and their parents voted to scrap it. About 80% of pupils and more than...
it may not look like that, but the movie has more to do with Education and Dyslexia than you think. About 30 min in it talks about one aspect our Education System fails to teach: it fails to make our young people aware that their beliefs shape...
I love this new Science that contradicts everything we have learned and everything I am trying very hard to teach these 'new' children, who are for example lacking a sense of time. Here we are, trying to tell them that time is the measurement of...
Interestingly, I have just blogged about psychometric assessments in schools last week and it was intriguing to see this article by Gene Glass, who states among other things that he is “no longer comfortable being associated with the discipline of...
In the Dyslexia world we often talk about goals, what our clients and their parents want to achieve or change in the year, where they decide to go on their journey to correct dyslexia. Goals are important. They are the ones that pull us towards an...
This article by Judy Endow does come from the field of Autism but I have found the problem sometimes in my dyslexic clients: They have great ideas, wonderful stories and a lot of insight worth sharing - but what eventually comes out of their mouth...
Do you ever wonder if you should learn to speed read? It seems a very attractive notion to many dyslexic adults who are able to read, but don't enjoy it or don't get enough comprehension after their first reading (usually requiring them to re-read...
Although Context Blindness is rarely associated with Dyslexia, I have found quite a few children, who present not only with Dyslexia, but also with some of the symptoms and sensitivities of Autism. There is no reason to assign them yet another...
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