It seems some teachers are easy to learn from and others are not. The South Cumbria Dyslexia Association and the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) surveyed dyslexic pupils about how teachers made learning easy or difficult. Some of the dyslexic pupil’s comments are listed below. At the start of the lesson...
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Starting school is a huge life changing event for any child. As parents, we fully anticipate that when we send our child off to school they will learn to recognise numbers and alphabet letters, and within the first 12 months or even less, start to string letters together into simple...
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Can music actually make us smarter? Research suggests that from as early as 16 weeks of pregnancy, when auditory function is forming, babies begin their musical development. Their early adaptive exposure to sounds, including those familiar sounds of parents’ voices, enhance extraordinary processing skills. Neuroscience teaches us that a child’s...
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“It has been a year now and it has helped me a lot. I have been able to move up a couple of reading levels at school. It’s been really helping since last year. Hopefully, I can keep going on with it because it helps me and I really like...
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“The Ten Minute Tutor is short it fun. It has helped me realized why I have been struggling at school and I might take longer to do stuff than others, but never give up.” Bailey’s Story Bailey is a well spoken young man. In Grade 2 at school, he is...
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“I struggle at school. I’ve got dyslexia. It just helps me. I used to be well, well, well below but now I’m only a little below and I’m not even done with TTMT. I’m only half way through. When I do the videos, I don’t just want to do one....
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“The hints help me remember how to spell words. I like getting the monthly bonuses. I have a lot more confidence answering questions in class. I have been enjoying my learning a lot more. I love science and TTMT has helped get better marks in science. I think the program...
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Break it down. The English language is complicated, so the best way to teach it is in small logical sequential steps. It’s basically a code of symbols with sounds attached, with lots of spelling rules, so we need to teach the steps, one by one, in the correct order and...
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Watch your child carefully and listen to them as they begin the school year. As soon as you see them struggling in any area of their schoolwork or homework or they start saying that something is hard. – Watch, listen and record. Go the parent teacher interviews. Ask the teacher...
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A DYSLEXIC teenager who was turned away from 30 schools has started his dream course at university. Jack Harley-Walsh first made headlines when he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro for charity at the age of ten. A year later he faced the even bigger obstacle of getting into a school, with 30...
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