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If you are an adult who enjoys reading, you may be surprised how complicated reading for meaning actually is. Reading is a complex activity, which is both cognitive and social. It is an activity that requires the simultaneous orchestration of phonics, oral language, and prior knowledge. It’s helpful to break down reading into a simple model: Reading = Decoding x Language Comprehension This is the…
The Dawg Daze of summer 2014 are here and I hope everyone is enjoying some well earned down time with family. While I am a strong advocate of not over-programming the summer and letting kids be kids there is also a risk of losing hard won skills and confidence from the previous winter. So with that in mind, here are five things a dyslexic student should not do this summer: 1) Don't stop learning…
The Dyslexia Reading Well Review of the Dyslexia Debate by Julian Elliott and Elena Grigorenko, Cambridge University Press, 2014 When a UK television program entitled The Dyslexia Myth was aired in 2005 many viewers came away from the program with the false understanding that biologically based reading difficulties were a myth. The producers of the program had intended a different, more subtle…
The last couple months have seen some exciting developments on the site. 1) We have launched a section on assistive technology , which more and more I think is critical for every parent and teacher to experiment with. The tools are just too powerful to ignore. BTW, at home, we have taken the plunge on an iPad Air and are experimenting with a number of applications including iWordQ which is a great…
I took in the Annual Literacy and Learning Conference hosted by the Ontario Branch of the International Dyslexia Association October 26 in Toronto. It was a great event, re-energizing and enlightening. Here's my takeaway... From the keynote "Inattention, Dyslexia and Anxiety" presented by Dr. Eric Tridas, President of the International Dyslexia Association: * The combination of dyslexia, anxiety…
It's one thing to be accomplished, another to shift paradigms. With his first book, Ben Foss is trying to shoot the gap. Holder of JD and MBA degrees, the inventor of the Intel Reader for Text to Speech, and the Founder of a non-profit for dyslexia called Headstrong Nation, Ben Foss is certainly accomplished, especially given a reading ability in the bottom 15% of the general population. But in…
It's Dyslexia Awareness Month October is the perfect time to raise awareness: Kids have been in school for a month and many parents and teachers are just now waking up to the reality of reading problems in the classroom and at the kitchen table. Act now! Check out the ongoings by following the link at the end of this blog entry. For our part we will be holding our official launch on October 14,…
Welcome to the Dyslexia Reading Well Blog. My name is Michael Bates and I am the author of the Dyslexia Reading Well. The site first went live on June 3rd, 2013 and while the official launch will not take place until Dyslexia Awareness Week in October (14-20th), September feels like the right month for kicking off the blog. I hope for the blog to serve three ends: First as a place to share some of…