Aug 13, 2015 | DM News Blog
A recent study by a researcher at the University of Tuzla found a link between children with reading difficulties and being a gifted visual-spatial learner. In one test, children were asked to do a mental ‘paper-folding’ exercise that involved significant...
Aug 7, 2015 | DM News Blog
Author of over 100 books of fiction, Debbie Macomber has a new claim to fame… Hallmark has recently adapted her Cedar Cove series into a TV serial drama starring Andie Macdowell. Things didn’t always come so easily for Macomber. She couldn’t read...
Aug 6, 2015 | DM News Blog
The new School Food Plan, devised by schools, restaurant owners and the government, is surely something we should be supporting, not despairing at as is happening in some of the recent media coverage. The new standards as outlined in the links below could eventually...
Aug 4, 2015 | DM Case Studies, DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Before Easyread, Sam did not like reading at all. The school readers were a daily battle with tears and frustration – and Sam was in the lowest reader in his class at age 5. Sam’s dad and extended family members all have dyslexia, so his mother was ready to...
Jul 31, 2015 | DM News Blog
Justin Wilson holds an unusual claim to fame: at 6 foot 4 inches, he is the tallest person to ever have raced in Formula 1 competition! Born and raised in Sheffield, England, both he and his brother Stefan have made their names in racing. And Justin has dyslexia. He...
Jul 29, 2015 | DM News Blog
Short-term memory difficulty is one of the 8 main causes of reading difficulty, and there’s no question that it can hold a child back in developing literacy. (The good news is, Easyread can help through the Trainertext method, which reduces cognitive load on the...
Jul 24, 2015 | DM News Blog
Entrepreneur, cognitive scientist, and former Google CIO Douglas Merrill has a long list of career exploits behind him… and he’s only in his mid-40s! Merrill struggled with dyslexia as a child, likely due to poor hearing between the ages of 3 and 6 (he had...
Jul 21, 2015 | DM News Blog
It’s a plain fact of life that we can never get inside anyone else’s head… and that’s probably a good thing! But what might it feel like to have dyslexia? Designer (and dyslexic) Daniel Britton recently put together a project to show the...
Jul 17, 2015 | DM News Blog
It’s not your typical claim to fame. Hotelier and dyslexic Stephen Hargreaves can boast that he owns ‘the most romantic hotel in Britain’! Hargreaves and his wife bought The Cranleigh at Lake Windermere nearly 10 years ago, and totally transformed it...
Jul 14, 2015 | DM News Blog
In a recent study at Stanford University, literate adults were taught how to read in a new alphabet of letter characters. Half were taught using a letter-to-sound matching method (phonics), and the other half were taught using whole word sight-memorisation, over a...
Jul 10, 2015 | DM News Blog
Private equity investor Guy Hands is one of Britain’s top entrepreneurs. Founder of Terra Firma Capital Partners, Hands has had a varied career which has included being: chairman of EMI music, biggest pub landlord in the UK, owner of vineyards and olive farms in...
Jul 8, 2015 | DM Case Studies, DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
1. What was reading like for Cameron before Easyread? Main concerns/reading age level/frustrations etc? Cameron is a happy, outgoing, passionate child who showed no signs of interest in listening to books, reading books, trying to figure out sounds, or caring too much...
Jul 1, 2015 | DM News Blog
A recent Stanford study of brain activity during the reading process has shown that letter-to-sound phonics processing is the best way to learn how to read. By comparison, a whole word sight-memorization strategy leads children down the wrong path. We couldn’t...
Jun 26, 2015 | DM News Blog
This young man may not be a household name (yet!), but he’s already in the record books. Captain James Anthony Tan is the youngest pilot – and first Malaysian – to fly solo around the world. And he has experienced reading difficulties throughout his...
Jun 24, 2015 | DM News Blog
Words are so often the symbols with which we understand and communicate with the world around us – especially in the realm of education. Teaching key terms for different topics explicitly is by no means new and yet I have seen plenty of students sitting in English...
Jun 19, 2015 | DM News Blog
Steven Naismith is a Scottish footballer who plays for the English Premier League club Everton in Liverpool. In a recent interview, he opened up about his childhood struggles with dyslexia and how they contributed to his success. Naismith was born and raised in...
Jun 18, 2015 | Child Reviews, DM Case Studies, DM News Blog, Parent Reviews
Before Easyread Liam was diagnosed with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and learning difficulties at 4 years old. He was in a special education setting for years until he left school at age 18 without being able to read anything except his own name. His mother tried many...
Jun 12, 2015 | DM News Blog
Athlete Chris Robshaw is the 29-year-old captain of the England national rugby team, and is known for his quiet leadership on and off the pitch. And he has dyslexia. The middle child of three boisterous boys, tragedy struck the family early on when his father died...
Jun 9, 2015 | DM News Blog
When my grandad said that his allotment committee were heading out to local primary schools to set up vegetable plots in corners of school fields, I had no idea how much of national project this had become. There are hundreds of amazing schemes going on to reconnect...
Jun 5, 2015 | DM News Blog
The star of the Lethal Weapon series has had many blockbuster hits in his time as a Hollywood A-list actor. And he has dyslexia, too. Born and raised in San Francisco, Danny Glover struggled from a young age in school with his literacy. In an interview, he described...
