Sep 15, 2012 | DM News Blog
One of the many ways one can be a “better” person is to be kind and thoughtful of others. Few people would disagree with the suggestion that empathy is a good thing. Here is an interesting study suggesting that music improves your empathy:...
Sep 7, 2012 | DM News Blog
Every girl dreams of being a princess. Fluffy dresses, handsome admirers, rose-petalled bathtubs…the whole pretty package. We never imagine that real life princesses might have real life problems to deal with along with the privileges. Swedish Crown Princess Victoria...
Sep 5, 2012 | DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Our son Ben turned 7 in November 2011. We had been concerned about his lack of progress in reading for some time. After several requests, over a six month period, we managed to arrange a meeting with the school. With no hesitation they agreed that Ben was experiencing...
Sep 5, 2012 | DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Our son Ben turned 7 in November 2011. We had been concerned about his lack of progress in reading for some time. After several requests, over a six month period, we managed to arrange a meeting with the school. With no hesitation they agreed that Ben was experiencing...
Sep 4, 2012 | DM News Blog
If somebody were to give you driving directions to a place, and you drew a map while listening to the person telling you the directions, which would you recall when going there: – the act of drawing the map? – pictures in your head based...
Aug 31, 2012 | DM News Blog
Did you know that: 81 million adults in the U.S. (43%) can’t read well enough to be sure when to take a medicine or find what time a TV show starts? This statistic comes from the National Adult Literacy Survey (2003) NCED, U.S. Department of Education. It...
Aug 30, 2012 | DM Case Studies, DM News Blog
Case Studies View All Case Studies Case Study: The Miracle of Gabriel Just over a year ago, things were looking very different for Gabriel – he was in third grade and was classified as being 3 years behind his expected reading level. Gabriel’s mom, Bonnie, was being...
Aug 27, 2012 | DM News Blog
UK-Developed Solution for Dyslexia and Reading Problems Opens Office in beautiful Ojai, California Ojai CA, August 17th, 2013. The Olympics are not the only exciting thing which has come out of England recently. Easyread Support USA is a new company in Ojai offering...
Aug 24, 2012 | DM News Blog
Many of us have happy memories of collapsing on the floor with giggles during a game of Twister. Others of us have not-so-happy memories of a Nerf ball flying through the kitchen and knocking over a glass of juice while the kids are “just playing”! Did you know that...
Aug 23, 2012 | DM News Blog
One thing that parents and kids alike love about Easyread is that the lessons are short and fun. We have found that one 15-minute lesson per day and not a minute more is the best way to help a child to read! But why do we do this? It’s all based on science. Harvard...
Aug 17, 2012 | DM News Blog
We have reached the final instalment in our series on dyslexic Olympic athletes, and we’ve saved the best for last. Sir Steven Redgrave is the only person to have won gold medals at five consecutive games…if you step back and consider that each Olympics is four...
Aug 14, 2012 | DM News Blog
We all have a limit to our capacity to store very short-term information. The standard range is quoted as seven plus or minus two, for the number of digits a person can recall over a matter of seconds. If you have a good memory you can remember a 9-digit number like...
Aug 10, 2012 | DM News Blog
Magic Johnson was a star player in the ‘Dream Team’ – the U.S. men’s basketball team in the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Did you know he is also dyslexic? From a young age, Magic (whose real first name is Earvin) struggled to read and write, performing poorly in...
Aug 8, 2012 | DM News Blog
**This article is a guest post from Karla at http://lifeinspecialeducation.blogspot.com. Thank you for your wonderful contribution!** Story Writing for Struggling Students Many students who struggle with reading, writing, and spelling have a very difficult time...
Aug 6, 2012 | DM News Blog
A 14 year-old dyslexic girl was among those chosen to carry the Olympic torch in this year’s torch relay for the games of the 30th Olympiad. Jessica Hogarth-Hall is a student at All Saints RC School in York, United Kingdom, and was nominated for the honor of bearing...
Jul 31, 2012 | DM News Blog
These days, a popular internet past-time is to take an online test in which after asking you a series of seemingly random questions, the computer spits out your “type”. You might be labelled a dreamer rather than a do-er. Or you might be placed into the famous...
Jul 27, 2012 | DM News Blog
In honour of this year’s summer Olympic games in London, we’re bringing you a couple of posts on famous dyslexic athletes who fly the torch high for learning challenges. One of the United States’ star athletes in the 1970s was Bruce Jenner. He had dyslexia and always...
Jul 26, 2012 | DM News Blog
So…what is phonics anyway? The term ‘phonics’ is somewhat of a hot potato these days, especially since the UK government controversially promoted it as the best way to boost reading standards in 2011. The new phonics test, which is now underway in primary schools,...
Jul 20, 2012 | DM News Blog
Did you know that: “Go!” is the shortest complete sentence in the English language? A sentence needs to have a subject and verb to be considered complete. However, commands (also called imperatives) have an understood, implicit subject – ‘you’....
Jul 19, 2012 | DM News Blog
A recent TED talk by game designer Jane McGonigal illustrated the power of games. There is a lot of mixed emotion about gaming in the wider culture – some people argue it isolates us from others and is ultimately a waste of time, while others focus on the...
