Helping Your Child Understand Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities – Part 2

In the first post on this series of Helping Your Child Understand Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities – Part 1 I shared with you a real life experience of how I would explain the basics of learning disabilities to a group of my own students. Here I will continue on with the same theme by giving [...]

Helping Your Child Understand Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities – Part 1

Some of my most current posts have been dealing with the problems that struggling readers face and what parents need to know about children with dyslexia. In continuing with the theme of these posts today I would like to share with you another side of the coin. This time I wanted to bring you a [...]

Children with Dyslexia – What Parents Need to Know

As a parent of a child with dyslexia certainly you have concerns about how you can help your child with their problems with reading and learning in general. In order to alleviate the tension you are experiencing this post, Children with Dyslexia – What Parents Need to Know, covers certain facts and myths about dyslexia [...]

5 Tips for Parents of Struggling Readers

Your normally happy-go-lucky child who was curious about everything, eager to learn new things and enjoyed you reading to him suddenly has become moody, wants nothing to do with books and doesn’t want to go to school. As a concerned parent you ask your child what is wrong. As a typical response the child tells [...]

Discover Intensive Phonics Program Will Help Your Child Learn to Read

You may not have heard of the Discover Intensive Phonics Program before because until recently it was only available in schools. I am familiar with the school version as it was used in school system in which I formerly taught. I can tell you first hand that my learning disabled students definitely increased their reading [...]