Is Spelling a Challenge for YOU? Are dyslexia spelling problems one of the hurdles you want to overcome as a dyslexic? After having worked with dyslexic individuals of all ages for over twenty years, I’m still to meet someone who doesn’t have...
Literacy Articles
Executive Functioning Skills and Literacy – and Training to Improve these Skills
What are Executive Functioning Skills? Executive Functioning impacts every aspect of life. Our Executive Functioning Skills are the foundation for everything we do in modern life and determine the success or dysfunction as a result of our level of...
ARE YOU LOST FOR WORDS? A Program to Improve Literacy by SBS
What Does the SBS Program to Improve Literacy "Lost For Words” Cover? Have you been watching the SBS 3-part documentary series “Lost for Words” that has been following the brave literacy-challenged participants as they take part in a program to...
Who is Generation Alpha?
Who is Generation Alpha? Anyone born between 2010 and 2025 is considered Gen Alpha. And what shall we expect of Generation Alpha? Are they going to be even more technology-oriented than their millennial parents and generation Z? With many of them...
Online Dyslexia Training Program – The One Year School
The One Year School is a new online dyslexia training program for Sydney Dyslexia. It is not only for children, but for any individual who is struggling to learn in a traditional way. They are usually creative, visual learners – and school is not an easy place
Insight Tonight
Just watching 'Insight' tonight, where they show again a program from last year, that has clearly evoked many emotions. What astounded me most was the statistic that showed a staggering 44 % of Australian adults not able to reach a literacy level...
The Benefits of Reading an ‘Actual’ Book
I have found this article below interesting: DID you know: that only 6 minutes of reading reduces stress by 68%? (well, I am sure that depends on the type of literature too) that individuals who read have 2.5 times less likelihood of developing...
I Suck at Poems
Well, that's what my 14-year old client told me today and I wrote these words down vertically for him to give me an acrostic poem: P.S. An acrostic poem is a type of poetry where the first, last or other letters in a line spell out a particular...
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