What do you think of when you hear the word dyslexia? Mispronouncing words, reading errors, and struggling in school are probably some of the first things that come to mind. But dyslexia is so much more than that! Dyslexia is a neurological disorder that affects how a...
It’s getting to that time of year that we are all thinking about summer break, but we are also planning on how we are going to support our young people with special education needs and disability, and in particular those with literacy difficulties such as...
Across the country several school children feel a sense of impending doom as the dreaded weekly spelling test looms. This is because several of our pupils will have worked hard all week learning a list of words for a test and just know that despite their best...
Arguably, reading is the gateway to curriculum access and therefore learning. We ask our pupils to be able to read information in every subject that we teach. If they can’t do this in its most functional sense, then learning becomes difficult. Here is a jarring...
Why is spelling so tricky for some? Perhaps, it is because there are so many processes to manage. For example, you have to: Isolate sounds in words and then translate those sounds into print.Recall spelling rules — and the exceptions.Choose between different words...
