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Technology Helps for the Dyslexic College Student

Technology Helps for the Dyslexic College Student

Thank you for joining me for this 10-part series on Preparing Your Student With Dyslexia for College Success. To read the whole series, click here. With the explosive growth in technology available today, dyslexic students have more opportunities than ever before to...

College Readiness:  What Successful Students Do

College Readiness: What Successful Students Do

Thank you for joining me on for this 10-part series on Preparing Your High School Student With Dyslexia for College Success. To read the whole series from the beginning, click here.  Today we'll look at the specific skills needed to be ready for college by...

The Best Spelling Apps for Dyslexia

The Best Spelling Apps for Dyslexia

  Spelling is often a lifelong struggle for people with dyslexia. These spelling apps are great choices for those struggling. While people with dyslexia will all have different strengths and weaknesses, spelling is pretty much always an area in which dyslexics...

How the Amazon Kindle Can Help the Dyslexic Reader

How the Amazon Kindle Can Help the Dyslexic Reader

As parents and teachers of dyslexic students, we are always trying to find ways to help these struggling readers learn to enjoy reading and learning. One way you can do this is by using an Amazon Kindle for your dyslexic reader.   As parents and teachers of...

What To Do When Kids Hate Reading

What To Do When Kids Hate Reading

Dyslexia makes reading hard.  It just does.  For many dyslexics this improves with time and practice but it is not uncommon for these difficulties to result in kids developing a strong dislike of reading.  How can thoughtful parents nurture a love of reading while...

iPracticeMath for Online Math Practice

iPracticeMath for Online Math Practice

Teaching math facts in our house full of creative, active kids has been a challenge since we started homeschooling 20 years ago!  I am always on the look out for fun ways to help our kids to learn about math and practice their math facts in a way that is engaging and...

Make Learning Chemistry Fun With Atomidoodle

Make Learning Chemistry Fun With Atomidoodle

I received a free download of the Atomidoodle app from Hero Factor Games for review purposes and was compensated financially for my time.  All opinions expressed in this post are my own and I was not required to post a positive review of the product....

Teaching the Distracted Child

Teaching the Distracted Child

As if homeschooling isn't enough of a challenge, teaching a distracted child who has trouble focusing is even harder. Not all kids with ADD or ADHD have dyslexia but it is believed that about 40% of dyslexic kids have some sort of problem focusing.  I have shared in...

Early Intervention for Kids With Dyslexia

Early Intervention for Kids With Dyslexia

When we first began our dyslexia journey, we were told that our 7 1/2 year old son was just a late bloomer.  We adopted a wait and see approach to his reading delays.  It is now known that early intervention for kids with dyslexia is vital. That boy did learn to read...

Building Reading Fluency in Dyslexic Readers

Building Reading Fluency in Dyslexic Readers

Reading fluency is difficult for the dyslexic reader to attain because they are generally spending most of their brain power trying to decode the words on the page. Let's take a look at how we can build fluency in dyslexic readers.  Thanking you for joining us here...

Reading Methods That Work With Dyslexia

Reading Methods That Work With Dyslexia

The bottom line in knowing how to teach kids with dyslexia to read is that there are methods and approaches that have been proven to work and those that haven't. Welcome back to day 3 of this 5-day series on Teaching Kids With Dyslexia to Read.  To read the entire...

How to Teach Phonemic Awareness

How to Teach Phonemic Awareness

Research has shown that phonemic awareness is the single strongest indicator of a child’s success at learning to read. But, how do you teach it? I'm showing you step by step! One of the first steps in learning to read is developing a strong awareness of phonemes in...

Could it be Dyslexia?  Signs of Dyslexia

Could it be Dyslexia? Signs of Dyslexia

If you know little about dyslexia, you may be wondering, how to know if someone is dyslexic or not. There are quite a few signs of dyslexia that are easy to observe. This is the first post in a 5-day series on Teaching Kids With Dyslexia to Read.  Read the entire...