Have you ever heard of Invented Spelling? You may have seen it in your child's writing, like I did, when my dyslexic boy was in Year 1, 2, 3 .... I used to cringe, when I looked at Keanu's very brief essay, spelling 'finx' (instead of 'thinks')...
And what has Zipf's Law to do with Dyslexia? For one thing: I have noticed that the 100 most frequent words contain 95 non-picture words/trigger words as we call them. Words such as: the, be (forms of to be), to, of, and, a, in, that, have, I, it,...
I was interested in reading an article in Sunday's Sydney Telegraph about the new magical approach in getting Australia's dismal Literacy and Numeracy results up into the 'Finnish range' (as in Finland being one of the top countries for literacy)....
I have just downloaded Mark Forsyth's book "The Elements of Eloquence" - How to turn the perfect English phrase. It was with great fascination that I learned that there is an order when using more than one adjective in front of a noun. And here it...
Finally some people realize that 'synthetic phonics', taught to or should I say torturing 400,000 dyslexic children, has not only very little to no effect, but actually hampers their ability to learn to read. “Neither children who are fluent...
I have been following this blog for a while now and often find real gems there. This is one of them - as it falls right into my field of Dyslexia. Not only have I been into the habit of reading an hour a day for many years now, but I am also in the...
Dyslexic learners, children and adults, often stumble over the little words, either leaving them out when reading or writing - or substituting them for a similar word, which may or may not have the same meaning. (e.g. for / from; a / the; in /...
Jimmy reads really well. He makes hardly any mistakes. With a frown of intense concentration he shows off his skills and they are quite remarkable. The odd small word may be changed or deleted, but nobody notices. Parents and teachers are happy -...
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