Reading Testing We offer reading testing for children who have mild to severe reading difficulty. Our goal is to identify the best reading curriculum to use to help your child become a strong reader. Dr. Jim Forgan wrote “Parent’s Quick Start Guide to Dyslexia”and “Parent’s Quick Start...
Reading and writing are crucial life skills but roughly one in ten children are affected by dyslexia, which can persist into adulthood. Family studies of dyslexia suggest heritability up to 70%, yet few convincing genetic markers have been found. Here we
Maddie had testing done at our local school this week. They said that she is reading at about a third grade level, and they also felt that her writing was at about a third grade level. That is pretty amazing, since both were at a Kindergarten level only 6 months ago! They said she ...
The staff supported me every step of the way. Something I was not used to, getting personal attention made us feel that we were important, not just another ‘customer’. Progress becomes visible after three weeks We began near the end of Grade 4. After only three weeks, Jeremie began to...
Accuracy data (percentage of errors) for zigzag novel words (NW) as a function of testing sessions, separately for the two groups of children. Filled circles: dyslexic children; open circles: controls. Accuracy data were fit by power functions separately for the groups of dyslexic children (cont...
over 40%. At or near the top of the pile of achievement-based teaching (ie I want you to give me the answer to this question, now!) is learning times tables by rote. And in February this year we find Nick Gibb telling an education select committee that times tables testing would be...