fbpx
Free Consultation

LD Articles, Resources and Success Stories

Showing articles with tag: dyslexia-help | Clear

Dyslexia in Children: A Comprehensive Guide

Reading is a complex act. It involves many processes and skills that all have to act at once. Children with dyslexia have severe difficulty with reading and, because of that, also with spelling. Our 'Dyslexia in Children' guide promises to answer many questions.

Read more...

Online Dyslexia Tutoring for Children

Our online dyslexia tutoring services integrate four components: (1.) the Orton-Gillingham approach, (2.) cognitive training, (3.) the development of two crucial brain areas for reading, and (4.) solid learning principles.

Read more...

Dyslexia Treatment Program Based on 4 Pillars

Dyslexia treatment based on four pillars: (1.) the Orton-Gillingham approach, (2.) cognitive training, (3.) the development of two crucial brain areas for reading, and (4.) solid learning principles. Is there, at last, some light at the end of the tunnel?

Read more...

Ask Susan: Orthographic Dyslexia — Symptoms, Causes, Intervention

Orthographic dyslexia, also called surface dyslexia or dyseidetic dyslexia, is a subtype of dyslexia that refers to children who struggle with reading because they can’t recognize words by sight.

Read more...

What Is Orton-Gillingham? How Does It Treat Dyslexia?

The Orton-Gillingham (OG) method is a direct, explicit, multisensory, highly structured, sequential, and diagnostic method intended to teach reading, spelling, and writing to the struggling reader or students with dyslexia.

Read more...

Overcoming Severe Dyslexia, Dyscalculia and Low IQ: A Case Study

Meet Maddie, a 10-year-old who was diagnosed with severe dyslexia, moderate dyscalculia, ADHD, and low IQ (low 80s). People who had evaluated her said that they had never seen dyslexia as severe as this before. Her parents had been told by more than one professional that Maddie would probably never read, and that they should try to find things that Maddie could be successful with outside of academics, because she would never be successful in academics...

Read more...

Student with Dyseidetic Dyslexia Improves by 26 Percentiles

His teacher says she has never had a student with an IEP have such good grades and that he is in the top half of the class.

Read more...

Ask Susan: Daughter Has Profound Dyslexia, Dysnomia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia

My daughter Amy tested as profoundly dyslexic and struggles in math, writing and spelling as well. We have done two years of OG and have seen reading improvement, but she is still at least two grades behind. She has always been homeschooled though.

Read more...

Defeating Dyslexia and Dysgraphia: A Trial Case Study

Ten-year-old Dalton has been diagnosed with dyslexia and developmental coordination disorder (dyspraxia) at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, and with dyslexia and dysgraphia by a multidisciplinary team at his school. Despite occupational therapy, speech therapy, physical therapy, and putting three Orton-Gillingham-based programs to the test, he continued to struggle.

Read more...

Ask Susan: Is Dyslexia Incurable?

Ever since the diagnosis my son has been depressed and has become withdrawn. He says he is dumb and stupid. He really wants to overcome his problems but we don’t know if that is even possible. The opinion of most people is that dyslexia is incurable. Do you agree?

Read more...

Retraining Brains to Deal with Learning Disabilities

IMAGINE going through school unable to read, spell or write properly. You know you are not “stupid” but you just can’t seem to get the work into your head. You could be one of thousands of people who struggle with a learning disability in South Africa.

Read more...

TV Documentary, Carte Blanche: Dyslexia and ADHD

Despite having an average intellectual ability and after many years of therapy, Michal was still completely illiterate at the age of 13. He was diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder and severe dyslexia. But then Michal attended a 10-day course. View his remarkable progress...

Read more...