{"id":14178,"date":"2019-03-06T03:52:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T03:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/?p=14178"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:26:54","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:26:54","slug":"another-education-myth-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/another-education-myth-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Education Myth Busted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/busted-thumb.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 35px; color: #3366ff;\"><strong>How fast can you teach a child to read and to get their confidence back?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-bottom: 5px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 200%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 35px; color: #3366ff;\"><strong>1 Week?        1 Month?        3 Months?          6 Months?            1 Year?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">I&#8217;m talking about the child who has lost motivation and is feeling dumb and stupid. (No?)<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">This child won\u2019t pick up a book unless you blackmail them, offer them a major incentive or pay them to read.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">You know this scenario. You know this child. Perhaps it is your child. Maybe it\u2019s your student.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">I\u2019m Liz Dunoon and I hear stories like these every day.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>So what is the solution?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: 30px; font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">A heartfelt chat with the classroom teacher.<\/li>\n<li style=\"line-height: 30px; font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">A year of specialized literacy tutoring &#8211; with an hour before school or after school each week.\n<\/li><li style=\"line-height: 30px; font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">A brand new laptop so they can use it to do their schoolwork and use spell check.\n<\/li><li style=\"line-height: 30px; font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Give up on learning English altogether, because this child\u2019s father wasn&#8217;t good at reading either.\n<\/li><li style=\"line-height: 30px; font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">How about a school Ipad with some reading and spelling apps installed.<\/li>\n<\/ul><center><p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial; line-height: 30px;\">Or you could&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/center>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"line-height: 30px; padding-top: 10px; font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Cross your fingers and hope they\u2019ll catch up next year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<strong><p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%; font-family: Arial;\">My promise<\/span><\/p><\/strong>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">If you have a child like this, I promise I can help them, and not only that\u2026 Turn them from unhappy to happy in weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<strong><p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%; font-family: Arial;\">Sure you can!!!<\/span><\/p><\/strong>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">I hear you say sceptically. Well, you&#8217;re right to be suspicious, because this won&#8217;t work for every child\u2026 But it works for most and maybe it will work for your child and then what?<\/span><\/p>\n\n<strong><p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%; font-family: Arial;\">Let me tell you a story<\/span><\/p><\/strong>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">One of my first ever students was a 10-year-old boy. Let\u2019s call him Peter. Peter was creative and a great problem solver. Sometimes he came up with the best ideas in the class and his classmates would copy them and call them their own. This made Peter really mad, but because he struggled socially, felt bullied and out of place, he wasn\u2019t sure what to do. He was also dyslexic and this combination of angst saw him self-harming, refusing to go to school and spiraling down with mental health issues very rapidly. It was at this time of great need that his Mum, let\u2019s call her Fiona, came across my method for helping children to learn to read and spell and catch up at school very quickly. Overjoyed, she joined the program and unbeknownst to me, her son blossomed. About ten weeks later I received an email from her thanking me profusely. Not only had her son become motivated to learn and to go to school every day, he now believed in himself and had been recorded as the student who had shown the greatest improvement in his region on the national standardised literacy testing that takes place in Years\u2019 3, 5, 7 and 9 here in Australia. I know for a fact that he went on to high school, is doing really well and was ever voted school captain.<\/span><\/p> \n\n<strong><p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%; font-family: Arial;\">So did I do it?<\/span><\/p><\/strong>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Well, I created the framework. A method that enables children to take control of their learning. Each session is ten minutes long and it is accessed using a computing device. Children do it a time that suits them.<\/span><\/p>  \n\n<strong><p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%; font-family: Arial;\">BUT&#8230;<\/span><\/p><\/strong>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\"><strong>You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink\u2026<\/strong> so why would your child or student want to do this? One of the biggest most important components in this method is its ability to instill self-belief in the children who use it. That\u2019s right&#8230; your child or student will get to learn, how they learn, what they find hard, what they find easy and how to use their newfound knowledge to shine at school and in life.<\/span><\/p> \n\n<strong><p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 180%; font-family: Arial;\">So\u2026<\/span><\/p><\/strong>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">If you would like to know more, join me on a webinar to learn more and understand how it works.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dyslexiadaily.clickfunnels.com\/LizsMultisensoryWebinar2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14202\" width=\"508\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button.png 1016w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button-300x40.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button-768x102.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button-150x20.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Here are some more children who enjoyed this method. Maybe your child will too. There is a 30-day money back guarantee. So give it a go! You have nothing to lose and a potential happy child to gain.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/keith-1024x366.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14238\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/keith-1024x366.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/keith-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/keith-768x274.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/keith-150x54.png 150w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/keith.png 1206w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Steven.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14243\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Steven.png 920w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Steven-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Steven-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Steven-150x85.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilian.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14242\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilian.png 956w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilian-300x165.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilian-768x423.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/lilian-150x83.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ar2-1024x512.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14252\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ar2-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ar2-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ar2-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ar2-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/ar2.png 1169w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jacob-1024x496.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14260\" width=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jacob-1024x496.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jacob-300x145.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jacob-768x372.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jacob-150x73.png 150w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/jacob.png 1363w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">There is also new pricing for schools\u2026 with new schools joining every week. Teachers, watch the webinar to find out more.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dyslexiadaily.clickfunnels.com\/LizsMultisensoryWebinar2019\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14202\" width=\"508\" height=\"68\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button.png 1016w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button-300x40.png 300w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button-768x102.png 768w, https:\/\/www.dyslexiadaily.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/button-150x20.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 508px) 100vw, 508px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Kind regards,<\/span><\/p>\n\n<p style=\"padding-top: 10px;\"><span style=\"font-size: 160%; font-family: Arial;\">Liz Dunoon<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How fast can you teach a child to read and to get their confidence back? 1 Week? 1 Month? 3 Months? 6 Months? 1 Year? 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