Oct 29, 2012 | DM News Blog
What is the one magic thing that really makes the difference between success and failure for most people? Talent? I am afraid not. The world is awash with talented people who have not achieved much. Luck? While a bit of luck is helpful, most successful people make...
Oct 26, 2012 | DM News Blog
From the moment a child is born (or even before, some scientists have argued), he is absorbing information like a sponge absorbs water. The things that babies see, touch, taste and hear as they explore the big bright world around them build out the neural pathways in...
Oct 25, 2012 | DM News Blog
For children who struggle academically – whether through widely recognised conditions like dyslexia, or lesser known ones such as Auditory Processing Disorder – their time at school can often seem frustrating and unfulfilling. Teaching styles are highly generalised as...
Oct 23, 2012 | DM News Blog
A whole new light I just got back from Irlen screener training and I have discovered something incredible: I see distortions when I read. The reason this is incredible is because I had no idea I had this problem. This realization has changed my world for the better!...
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 19, 2012 | DM News Blog
Tommy Hilfiger is one of the world’s premier fashion designers. His labels can be found in high street stores everywhere. He has amassed huge personal wealth after building his company from the ground up at age 18. And he has dyslexia. New York born and raised,...
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 16, 2012 | DM News Blog
Literacy issues don’t just affect kids in the classroom. They can have a wide-spread – and painful – impact on children. Research shows that children with learning disabilities are especially likely to suffer from self-esteem issues. As parents, we all...
Oct 15, 2012 | DM News Blog
Dear Drs. Carol and Joe Utay, I can understand my memory becoming less reliable, but not my son’s. I have to re-teach what his math teacher teaches him. He is constantly forgetting what books he needs. I know he is smart, but I am noticing his poor memory affecting...
Oct 13, 2012 | DM News Blog
My Story I didn’t discover I was dyslexic until I was 35 years old – that’s when I went back to college to get the education I missed out on as a child, spurred on by the realisation that as my kids grew up I couldn’t help them with their homework. My Lecturer...
Oct 12, 2012 | DM News Blog
Students who reported having all four types of reading materials (books, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias) in their home scored, on average, higher than those who reporter having fewer reading materials. – The Nation’s Report Card: Fourth-Grade Reading...
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 9, 2012 | DM News Blog
Music is a powerful teaching tool and the more students learn about music the more it can actually help them read. So many of the same skills and strategies we use to read, we also use when we listen to music. When teachers can help their students practice these...
Oct 6, 2012 | DM News Blog
David Boies is one of the most famous trial lawyers in the United States. He has been the big name in many high profile cases, including Bush v. Gore during the 2000 election, and U.S. Department of Justice v. Microsoft in an anti-trust suit. And yet “the lawyer that...
Oct 5, 2012 | DM News Blog
Students who test well in the traditional realms of verbal and mathematical abilities are able to show how bright they are. But what about intelligent children who don’t test well in these traditionally tested areas; like dyslexics and strong visual learners who...
Oct 3, 2012 | DM News Blog
I am a mum of an 11 year old boy who has a Severe Language Delay and Auditory Processing Disorder. My son was never formally diagnosed with a delay until around 4 years of age. I knew. It seemed quite obvious that something wasn’t right. He didn’t reach those...
Oct 2, 2012 | DM News Blog
Believe it or not, fat is probably the most important element of your child’s diet. Let me explain why. First, your neurones are largely made of fat. The long, fast ones are actually wrapped in fat too, to speed the connection. Multiple Sclerosis is an auto-immune...
Sep 28, 2012 | DM News Blog
Factoid: “Children who have not developed some basic literacy skills by the time they enter school are 3 – 4 times more likely to drop out in later years.” – National Adult Literacy Survey, (2002) NCES, U.S. Department of Education At Easyread we don’t...
Sep 27, 2012 | DM News Blog
As a reading teacher, I want parents to make reading part of their children’s lives. It’s cliché, but parents are their children’s first teachers, and need to instil the love and importance of reading. When parents read books, magazines and newspapers, and involve...
Sep 21, 2012 | DM News Blog
Easyread founder and CEO David Morgan struggled to learn to read as a child, and 30 years later, found himself in reading time battles with his own sons, who had the same problem. “It can become quite traumatic!” says David. Around the same time, he became the acting...
