The role of parents in supporting dyslexic readers is immense, and yet they usually receive no training! This article offers ten tips to help you in your vital, valuable role of supporting your dyslexic child in reading.
When it come to making reasonable adjustments for secondary students with dyslexia, exams are a big consideration. This blog offers the headlines: what access arrangements are available for students with dyslexia, how are they awarded and what does best practice look like? As well as a discussion of the testing process for extra time or types of scribe, you’ll read about lesser known access arrangements. In addition, this blog seeks to clarify some of the common misunderstandings related to access arrangements and dyslexia. Whether you’re a parent seeking clarity or a teacher looking specifically for your students with dyslexia, this article is for you.
In this blog, working memory is compared to a bottle neck, which very easily breaks, especially where there are working memory difficulties. These difficulties often occur with dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia), ADHD, autistic spectrum disorder, developmental language disorder and mental health conditions. Very often both teachers and parents expect children and young people’s working memory capacity to be considerably bigger than it actually is, and it’s alarmingly common for us to unwittingly place unnecessary demands on their working memory. The simple act of evaluating your practice and the learner’s behaviour, and making appropriate adaptations, can be a game changer.
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