There is a link below to a very interesting article on the eyeball control of dyslexic Chinese children.
Chinese is fundamentally different to English in that it uses symbols for words rather than an alphabet representing the sounds in words. Therefore the auditory processing deficit that we see so often in English-speaking children struggling to read, [...]
I am really pleased with his progress. It is very noticeable that he is progressing well in literacy at school now; his confidence is growing daily.
Thanks so much
Samantha
I personally have seen a huge improvement in Ellens reading over the past few weeks. Her fluency & confidence has improved so much.
She picked up my mobile phone today & read a text that I had sent to someone, when she is looking at the television she can now press the information button & read [...]
I’m overjoyed to provide the password BRONZE as Millie has worked through the levels 12-14. My wife has stated that she started to guess a little on lvl 14 so she paused Millie and wrote out the offending words for her on paper. They then worked through the words methodically and she got it in [...]
Just to thank you for the helicopter Matthew received yesterday - he loves it and hasn’t stopped playing with it (I think i’ll have to invest in some rechargable batteries!!)
Both myself and Matthew feel a little sad that he has now finished the Easyread programme. It was rarely a chore to get him to complete [...]
Iansyst, a Cambridge-based company specialising in assistive technologies for conditions such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, and dyscalculia, is currently running the 2009 iansyst Dyslexia-Friendly Best Practice Award, a competition aimed at recognising and celebrating best practice for dyslexia provision in education. This year’s theme is “Celebrating the Strengths of Dyslexic Students,” and the winning school gets [...]
We have found Easyread to be an amazing system - nice short lessons, fun tasks, jokes and games, and the prizes are a really great idea as the provide a stimulus to keep going and an excitement to keep moving. Jonathan has come on very well and his peers are now commenting that he is [...]
ned received his helicopter last week and it is a great success and much more hardy that we thought it would be! Not sure who is more impressed ned or his dad
Ned has found easyread hugely helpful and it has helped his reading no end and also his confidence.
The best thing was that the lessons [...]
Alex has enjoyed his easyread experience and has progressed amazingly well. He is still a slow reader but is not discouraged and is eager to practice reading books of his own choice with my help.
Alex has gone from a lad who cried at the thought of reading practice and refused to read even the simplest [...]