Oct 15, 2009 | DM News Blog
Here is an interesting article about the wiring of the brain for literacy. A lot of what we are doing during Easyread is to link the visual cortex to the auditory cortex. That is quite an unnatural pairing and so does require effort to set up. Most of the children...
Jul 10, 2009 | DM News Blog
Sir Jim Rose has reported his findings on dyslexia. What he says makes great sense. He makes 19 recommendations, but his two main points are first that dyslexia is related to reading difficulty and should not be expanded into other areas. Here is his definition:...
Mar 10, 2009 | DM News Blog
Here is an article about the vast sums of money being spent on adult literacy: Government pledges £1billion It makes Easyread look pretty good value! The results achieved by adult literacy programmes are usually pitiful. They are almost always based on a weekly or...
Jan 14, 2009 | DM News Blog
Here is an article about the link between poor literacy and crime: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article5513297.ece I originally got involved in literacy through working in the Shannon Trust, which gets literate prison inmates to teach their...
Nov 26, 2008 | DM News Blog
Day by day one begins to see more Real Books and Whole Language articles.  Here is another: Phonics or Whole Language Debate As phonics fails to deliver the target of full literacy again, one can feel the pendulum beginning to creak into motion. The truth is that...
