Oct 22, 2012 | DM News Blog
Here are some very sobering statistics from Washington State: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/editorials/2017345662_justfixit29.html?cmpid=2628 One in three of the children in 3rd grade are seriously behind in literacy! The brutal reality is that most will...
Oct 17, 2012 | DM News Blog
Researchers have continued their hunt for early signs of dyslexia: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012/01/23/children-brain-changes-may-detect-dyslexia/ What they are asking is really a statement of the obvious: if a child finds auditory processing of sounds hard,...
Oct 11, 2012 | DM News Blog
You will hear references to the “double deficit” in dyslexics. This is a theory that dyslexics both have a weak phonological awareness (of the sounds in words) and also a poor naming speed rate, when asked to recall words. We see this pattern in a subset of the...
Oct 10, 2012 | Parent Reviews
To start with I was not expecting the system you have of using pictures to decode words to work, but it worked brilliantly. George soon got the hang of it and it got him out of the habit of guessing the words. In the end he got really quick and I found it hard to keep...
Oct 10, 2012 | Parent Reviews
i was so proud of shakeel for what he has achieved so far i had to tell you, when shakeel started reading it took him almost a month to read one book and that was the tiger that came to tea, since the begining of september shakeel has read the following books and each...
