Can we avoid the ‘label’ dyslexia when talking to any child? “Please don’t use the word dyslexia when talking to my child,” a well-meaning mother asked me before assessing her child. In the past, that is exactly what I used to do. Trying to pretend...
This article outlines what makes kids smarter. To Sum It Up Music Lessons The Dumb Jock Is A Myth Don’t Read To Your Kids, Read With Them Sleep Deprivation Makes Kids Stupid IQ Isn’t Worth Much Without Self-Discipline Learning Is An Active Process...
Our ability/inability to focus Did you know that the average person unlocks his or her phone 110 times a day? According to the study by Locket (an app creator), we not only can't help but check our smart phones incessantly, we also use them 195 min...
It is wonderful to see how more and more people are focusing on the positive aspects of Dyslexia and thereby dispelling the stigma around Dyslexia.
Dyslexia and the forming years “Once upon a time, a girl called Gretel and her brother called Hansel lived with their father and their stepmother in a little hut near the forest. The family was very poor and there was never enough food on the...
It's something for the smaller kids out there, but quite cute and reinforcing the gifts, rather than the challenges.
How do you escape the cult of busy? When I follow up on my clients, I quite often hear that the 30 minutes a day exercises that are required after a Dyslexia Correction Program couldn't be fit in - "we were just so busy recently", I hear them say,...
I have just looked through some notes I took at our last International Davis Symposium and came across these pearls of wisdom. "When you require something from someone who cannot do this, you are torturing him/her." I have noticed that the other...
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