Dec 12, 2014 | DM News Blog
Stephen J. Cannell founded The Cannell Studios in Hollywood, which produced nearly 40 television series over the last four decades, including the popular A-Team and 21 Jump Street. And he had dyslexia. Cannell struggled in school from an early age. He described...
Dec 11, 2014 | DM News Blog
When dyslexic secondary school children at the Moon Hall School were assigned writing poems as homework, you can imagine what their first thoughts might be: me? Poetry? No way. I can tell you how I feel, but don’t make me write it! But what they came up with was...
Dec 4, 2014 | DM News Blog
It sounds like something more at home in a dream than reality. Pre-K and Kindergarten classes sharing a building with a nursing home? The Grace Living Center in Tulsa is just that. 60 schoolchildren walk down the halls with 170 elders, called Grandpas and Grandmas....
Nov 27, 2014 | DM News Blog
I recently stumbled upon an interesting blog, Moments a Day, which explores honest and open parenting. I particularly enjoyed a recent article, 5 Activities to Help Children Develop Emotional Control. In it, the author explores teaching young children: to recognize...
Nov 21, 2014 | DM News Blog
CEO Mike Norris runs Computacenter, Europe’s largest reseller of computing goods. He’s been an entrepreneur since his teenage years… and he has dyslexia. Norris was born and raised in Essex. He struggled with literacy as soon as he started school....
Nov 14, 2014 | DM News Blog
The actress Lorraine Bracco, famous for her roles in Goodfellas and The Sopranos, has recently opened up about her struggles with dyslexia. Growing up, she felt “stupid and dumb” compared to her siblings. She struggled all the way through school with...
Nov 12, 2014 | DM News Blog
Recent research from Vanderbilt University has found that there are subtle differences in the brains of children with reading difficulties. http://news.vanderbilt.edu/2014/10/dyslexia-white-matter/ The article itself is quite technical, so here is the pertinent part...
Nov 7, 2014 | DM News Blog
We’ve written a post on the brilliant Sally Gardner before (for those of you who don’t know, she’s an award-winning British children’s novelist with totally unique style of her own!). For Dyslexia Awareness Week, she put together a poem for...
Nov 6, 2014 | DM News Blog
It is Dyslexia Awareness Week this week and the latest statistic from Dyslexia Action is that “1 in 5 children are effectively excluded from the classroom due to reading difficulties”. With 6 million people in the UK diagnosed with Dyslexia, it’s a...
Nov 5, 2014 | DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Kais reading has definitely improved and when he is not tired is able to decode words well. His “fluency” is also improving and he can read much faster.
Oct 31, 2014 | DM News Blog
Anita Roddick was the founder of the wildly successful line of natural beauty products, The Body Shop. She was also dyslexic. Like many entrepreneurs, Roddick struggled with her reading and spelling, but had great vision and gumption for starting new things. Newly...
Oct 29, 2014 | Child Reviews, DM Case Studies, DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Before Easyread, getting Harry to read anything was a real battle. He would skip words, use the pictures in books for clues, and stumble over even the simplest words. On one day he would read quite well, but on another he would be awful. His spelling was atrocious...
Oct 24, 2014 | DM News Blog
The late Robin Williams, a comedian and actor who took the world by storm with his antics and wit, struggled with dyslexia. As a young child, Williams struggled to learn to read and write. He joked about his literacy difficulties in an interview with Johnny Carson: “I...
Oct 23, 2014 | DM News Blog
Did you read this recent article about one mother’s fight to get her son reading? When Zachary was in 2nd Grade, he was already falling behind in his reading. He was diagnosed with dyslexia. His mother hired a dyslexia tutor who worked with him 3 times a week,...
Oct 21, 2014 | DM News Blog
The New York Times recently published a fascinating article on what children all around the world eat for breakfast. The best part is that they’ve put together a collage of images from the breakfast table… it is simply...
Oct 17, 2014 | DM News Blog
Michael Heseltine is a retired politician who spent many years in the top inner circle of the Conservative Party. He is famous for often challenging his party leader, Margaret Thatcher. He is now 81 and continues to run his businesses and advise the government. And he...
Oct 10, 2014 | DM News Blog
Comedian Jim Carrey is best known for his roles in Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, The Truman Show, and Liar Liar. Famous for his crazy facial expressions and slapstick physical comedy, Carrey has come far from humble beginnings. His family had very little money when...
Oct 10, 2014 | DM News Blog
Easy read is definitely helping him at school as he has now been moved out of the struggling readers group and his teacher has commented that he is sounding out and reading words that they definitely wouldn’t expect someone of his age to be reading.
Oct 3, 2014 | DM News Blog
Max Brooks is a world-famous author of novels like World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War and The Zombie Survival Guide. He is the son of actors Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft. And he has dyslexia. As a child, Brooks struggled at school from very early on. He...
Oct 1, 2014 | DM News Blog
Easyread parents will know that we are very big on praise. One of the Golden Rules of Easyread is the “Rule of 5:1”. The rule says that for every 1 correction or criticism you make when reading with a struggling learner, you must praise 5 things...
