Dyslexia interferes with the ability to recognize and form letters. It reflects poor reading and writing skills. Previously, when the term was not known all those people who could not read or write were branded academically poor. But, there were several innovators and creative geniuses like Einstein, Picasso, who showed that the inability to read … Read more
Syllable learning is a crucial aspect of acquiring reading and speaking skills. Syllables are nothing but different sounds that constitute a word. As a part of the process of learning the morphology of words, the students may need to break down the words into syllables to ease reading or spelling them. Hence, familiarizing them with … Read more
It is rightly said that when children are fluent, they begin to take flight into a whole new world effortlessly- just like young birds to the sky. As students progress, their reading ability should be adorned with the ability to infer. The reading potential of students starts to take off during this time which makes … Read more
Schooling is an integral part of one’s growing up. This is the phase of making strides. But, this phase might be a challenging chapter in a child’s life with special needs. Factoring this, special schools have become the need of the hour. In these institutions, teachers are trained differently, and education is also through a … Read more
Learning disabilities affect communication skills, cognition, decision-making, and other abilities required for normal living. If you inspect closer all these traits are required for putting forth the points made in the favor of the self. Often it happens that a sense of undue gratitude enters the psyche of children especially when the world around shows … Read more
Dyslexia is now an established reality. But, it did not happen overnight. For years, people passed off reading and writing difficulty as stupor or negative attitude of children. The struggle of years has paid off and educators and lawmakers have now come together to spread awareness about dyslexia far and wide. With the best intentions … Read more
Sir Einstein, Pierre Curie, and Galileo Galilei are a few among many examples of persons with dyslexia who have broken the glass ceiling created by learning disabilities and carved their names in history. However, far greater is the number of the unknown talents and potentials that were marginalized and not allowed to shine because of … Read more
Difficulty in reading, processing numbers, and establishing relationships using number sense amounts to Dyscalculia. It is a well-established fact now and about 3-7% of students are found to be suffering from this disorder[1]. With such complications to tackle, many young learners (approx.19%) drop out of school[2]. The more active and aware parents choose to homeschool … Read more
REVIEWED BY NUMBERDYSLEXIA’S MEDICAL REVIEW PANEL ON JULY 27, 2021 If people find it difficult to tell words that are not voiced out as they are spelled, it is the sign of surface dyslexia. For example, the words like island, honor, bought, Right, etc, are words that differ in grapheme and phoneme. Hence, this disorder is … Read more
Please Note: This post may contain affiliate links. Please read my disclosure (link) for more info. The difficulty to read and write is one of the common signs of dyslexia; you all know it very well now! But, what you must know is that Dyslexia is not the end of your academic road. Dyslexics do find ways to … Read more