Dyslexia is a brain-based learning disorder that affects reading ability. While symptoms of dyslexia manifest in many ways, dyslexic individuals often experience struggles with the components that make up reading like phonemic awareness or phonological processing. They can’t easily recognize and break ...
More About This Book Squirm Carl Hiaasen Fans of Carl Hiaasen will feel right at home when they read this book. In this humorous story, Billy travels across the country to see his father, who he hasn't seen since he was four-years-old. On his travels, he encounters nature in some une...
He was a simple man, my mum said. These days I call him aPleasantvilledad, after William H. Macy in the film of the same name. He sat and read his paper, cut the grass when needed, drove mum to the shops, kept himself to himself, didn’t want to be disturbed. ...
Some schools try children out with coloured overlays when they’re reading. Not many know about it but some children and adults have what is known asvisual stress(or Irlen syndrome). This is sometimes tied up with dyslexia because many dyslexics also have visual stress. But it’s actually e...
People who hate Charles Dickens are not wrong. People who loveTwilightare not wrong. YOU CAN’T BE FUCKNIG WRONG WHEN YOU READ. Unless youcompletelymiss the text and say something like “Great Expectationswas about a Tyrannosaurus Rex eating a bi-plane,” but even then, if you can su...
You can find countless similar stories of kids who were told for years that they weren’t paying attention or weren’t applying themselves, when they actually just needed glasses and couldn’t read the blackboard. What a world-shifting discovery that must be for each of those kids, as well...
When I visited my mother at hospital, just could bring two apples, I saw her and I could not hold my tears. We stood huddled together for a moment, my bottom lip quivered while tears were coming out of my eyes and even from the deep of my heart. They were tears of sorrow, for ...
Once I found out I was mildly dyslexic and PROFOUNDLY digit dyslexic, it started being easier to control both, and I worked out a great deal of tricks so I don’t confuse digits, or don’t measure twice and cut– Oh, hell did I do that again? Sometimes knowing “thing” is there ...
The kid I loved, the kid I saw at home, when all the stressors were gone. That kid. Do you know that kid? That kidis also the one who sings at the top of her lungs in a voice that may very well be full of amazing potential the world may never hear. ...