Illiterate father learns to read at age 63
Illiterate father learns to read at age 63 by Sarah Forrest|| 20 March 2017 It's a story you hear all too often. Back in the middle of the last century, children with reading difficulties were labelled as 'disruptive' or 'behaviourally challenged', and often...
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Highly Successful Dyslexics We used to run a blog series on Famous Dyslexics many years ago, and parents told us that their kids loved hearing about famous people who struggled with reading and spelling too. From politicians, to entrepreneurs, to inventors, to...
read moreBreakthrough Reader of January 2017
Breakthrough Reader of January 2017 by Sarah Forrest || 8 Feb 2017 Laurie started the program in the bottom of his class for reading, having failed his Year 1 phonics test twice. Despite enjoying a bedtime story every night for years, he was easily frustrated when...
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5 Phonics Games for Early Readers
5 Phonics Reading Games for Your 3-6 Year Old by Sarah Forrest || 2 Mar 2017 Looking for fun reading games to help your beginner reader learn? The basis for strong reading skills is phonics. Many children struggle because phonics is abstract, so they turn to...
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Dyslexia not linked to IQ
Dyslexia not linked to IQ by Sarah Forrest || 28 Feb 2017 "My son is really smart, but he just can't seem to grasp the most basic words we've been working on for months!" We hear some version of this line from nearly every parent who comes to DM Ed for consultation...
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Breakthrough Reader of February 2017
Breakthrough Reader of February 2017 by Sarah Forrest || 22 Feb 2017 Addison came to DM Reading having struggled for 4 years in school with learning to read. At age 8, she was diagnosed with a vision issue and was prescribed strong glasses... which explained quite a...
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Swedish Princess Madeleine Writes Children’s Book for Dyslexics
Swedish Princess Madeleine Writes Children’s Book for Dyslexics by Sarah Forrest || 21 February 2017 Dyslexia runs in the Swedish royal family, with Princess Victoria, Prince Carl Philip, and Princess Madeleine all formally diagnosed with a reading difficulty. The...
read moreDyslexic student of literature at Cambridge University explains her passion for books
Dyslexic literature student at Cambridge University explains her love of books by Sarah Forrest || 07 Feb 2017 In a fascinating recent article, British student Holly Platt-Higgins describes how she didn't pick up a book to read on her own until the age of 14. And yet,...
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Breakthrough Readers of December 2016
Breakthrough Readers of December 2016 Sarah Forrest || 31 January 2016 Nathaniel Before DM Reading, Nathaniel was delayed in his speech. He had tubes to drain ear fluid when he was 4 and had speech therapy starting a year before that. By 5th Grade, he was still behind...
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Breakthrough Readers of November 2016
Breakthrough Readers of November Sarah Forrest || 24 Jan 2017 November was a brilliant month of breakthroughs for children on DM Reading. Liam Before DM Reading, Liam was tested in Year 4 as having a reading age of Year 2. He has visual memory skills, but low auditory...
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