Mar 24, 2015 | DM News Blog
There’s been a hotbed of legal activity in the last year surrounding an important educational issue: support for children with diagnosed dyslexia and related reading difficulties. The United States seems to be riding a wave of new laws that are sweeping state...
Mar 20, 2015 | DM News Blog
British novelist and activist Erin Pizzey is famous for starting the first ever women’s refuge in the modern world. And she describes herself jokingly as “hopelessly dyslexic“! She was born in China where her family were British diplomats. In World...
Mar 13, 2015 | DM News Blog
You may not know Marc Jordan by name, but I bet you know him by song. He’s written hit tracks for Rod Stewart, Diana Ross, Cher, and others, and is still composing and touring today. And he has severe dyslexia. He struggled to show his natural intelligence as a...
Mar 6, 2015 | DM News Blog
Brian Conley was once the highest paid male television performers in the United Kingdom. He’s famous for playing PT Barnum in Barnum Circus’ The Greatest Show on Earth, and has been on the West End stage more recently in Hairspray, Chitty Chitty Bang...
Feb 27, 2015 | DM News Blog
Chuck Close is an artist famed for his massive, photo-like portraits of faces. He has dyslexia, and even more interesting given his career, also has a form of face-blindness which makes it difficult for him to recognize people. He struggled with all areas of school...
Feb 20, 2015 | DM News Blog
Charlie Burgin is an electronica music creator from California who goes by the cryptic name Sahy Uhns. Nobody can pronounce it… and Burgin gets a kick out of that because he is dyslexic. “I’m severely dyslexic,” Burgin confesses…So one of his goals in...
Feb 18, 2015 | DM News Blog
The Times Educational Supplement has recommended use of primary-level phonics to help low-attaining secondary students. https://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2015/02/12/phonics-techniques-help-struggling-secondary-students.aspx This is wonderful news for us here at Easyread,...
Feb 12, 2015 | DM News Blog
Thank you for helping Elijah with his reading over this past year. I have seen a good deal of improvement in comprehension and attitude toward reading. Elijah would like to continue with Easy read for a while if there are more stories available. The characters really...
Feb 10, 2015 | DM News Blog
Yet another study has been published by neurologists showing that phonics rules when it comes to teaching kids to read. http://time.com/3687089/phonics-word-recognition-science-research-study/ Phonics’ main opponent, whole word sight-reading, fails to produce a...
Feb 6, 2015 | DM News Blog
This is a first for our Famous Dyslexics series on the Easyread blog… we are featuring a champion fencer! Molly Sliney fenced for the US Olympic Team in two Olympic games, and won gold at the 1987 and 1991 Pan American Games. Molly Sliney struggled to read from...
Jan 30, 2015 | DM News Blog
Actor, singer, and activist Harry Belafonte has become an advocate for children with reading difficulties in recent years. Belafonte was born in New York in the late 1920s. He spend part of his early childhood in Jamaica before returning to the US in his teenage...
Jan 27, 2015 | DM News Blog
You may have heard this term bandied about in educational circles: twice-exceptional (sometimes shortened to 2e). What does it really mean? Twice-exceptional refers to students who are both intellectually gifted and have some kind of learning difficulty. So they are...
Jan 23, 2015 | DM News Blog
Because the term ‘dyslexia‘ didn’t surface until the late 1800s – and even then didn’t catch hold until recent decades – it is possible that a huge number of iconic figures from our past struggled with it unknowingly. One article...
Jan 22, 2015 | DM News Blog
Today, she sat on my lap for a minute. I was writing a report. She actually read this text below fairly well – sounding out words she did not know!!!! Not bad. 🙂 The required finished water quality after reuse treatment will depend on the goals for reuse at that...
Jan 22, 2015 | DM News Blog
It is understandable that parents feel like they might get more support for their child if they have an ‘official’ label. It also makes sense that it might be easier for teachers and SENCOs to differentiate lessons and interventions if they know exactly what...
Jan 16, 2015 | DM News Blog
A great article was published in the Guardian recently about the relatively high incidence of dyslexia in entrepreneurs. Check out these stats: 35% of company founders in USA identified themselves as dyslexic 20% of the UK’s business self-starters have the condition...
Jan 13, 2015 | DM News Blog
It was a great way to end the autumn term at The Cherwell School in Oxford, as we celebrated what was the end of implementing a huge systemic change in their approach to literacy intervention. Following a successful pilot trial with 8 students last academic year, The...
Jan 9, 2015 | DM News Blog
Marlon Brando was a film and stage actor who won an Oscar for his role in On the Waterfront. And he was dyslexic! Brando was raised in Nebraska and California, and struggled in school. His father was not very supportive of his difficulties. Brando has been quoted as...
Jan 8, 2015 | DM News Blog
A new report by the vice-chancellor of one of Australia’s leading universities – the University of Sydney – has recommended an overhaul of how teachers are trained to teach reading. He points out the lack of emphasis on phonics. Many teaching...
Dec 17, 2014 | DM News Blog
The lovely Kelly behind Idealist Mom recently wrote an article about how to parent your giver-uppers. How do you teach perseverance to children who just don’t even want to try? You’ll have to read the article to discover the one little trick she...
