As soon as I discovered I could learn through my hands, I realized I wasn’t stupid.
Last week, in talking with a gifted and successful artist and art professor, the importance of experiential education was beautifully described:
“I wasn’t going to finish college, but I took an art class that focused on creating instead of textbooks. […]
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Understood.org posted a summary article about the 14 Phonic Rules and the chatter about it highlights something problematic about using rules in Orton-Gillingham instruction: For each rule there is a litany of exceptions.
“I hate schwas!”
“But what about putt?”
“Well, then shouldn’t druid should sound like droot?”
“Breath doesn’t take the long e sound…”
This is familiar […]
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Do you want the good news bad news first?
Here’s the BAD NEWS:
We really aren’t helping our kids when we tell them that after they finish Orton-Gillingham (OG) they have all the keys to the kingdom that they need in order to read anything they want.
OG covers the basics. Wonderful, necessary basics. But it […]
Some thoughts to consider on why we use yak as a memory image, why we don’t memorize “rules”, and why we want to expose our brain to rarer spelling patterns and nonwords!
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These stories never get old: Artist Overcomes Dyslexia: Creates Art to Inspire Everyone. But how the media frames them is so old, it is moldy.
Time and time again, these inspirational stories try to tell us that great things happen despite dyslexia. We would like to suggest that great things happen because of dyslexia.
The brain difference that causes dyslexia […]
Dyslexic pupils not helped by reading method
(Image and article from The Independent – UK) Up to 400,000 dyslexic children may be hampered in learning to read by the Government’s insistence on the use of synthetic phonics to teach them, says a report to be published. Read the full article.
Pam Taylor, founder of LexiAbility, […]
How Robert Redford’s family are changing our thinking on dyslexia
At 10, Dylan Redford, grandson of Robert, could barely read or write. His story features in a revealing and touching documentary about the condition made by his father, James. On the face of it, Dylan Redford has everything going for him – he is a […]
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