Dr. Sam is a Wonderful Reading Teacher Resource Thanks to Dr. Sam Bommarito, I was alerted to an incredibly important 2022 paper on reading — full citation included at the end of this blog. One reason I blog is to read research papers and simplify them for those who need the info but don’t have […]
Judge this book by its cover, not by its fonts Opening How Tony Learned to Read: Growing Up Dyslexic, by Tony and Judy Fishel, was a bit of a shock. I was confronted with some paragraphs in large print Comic Sans. It was stunning since I expected another sober case study by a dyslexia researcher. […]
Talk About Dyslexia A huge mastodon stomps around in the dyslexia education living room. Schools in the United States have done a surprisingly poor job of addressing it. Even though about 15% of students are dyslexic, dyslexia accommodation isn’t part of the regular classroom. Instead, students with the lowest reading scores are pulled out into […]
Visual Asymmetry Dyslexia Research I am a dyslexia tutor. My daughter and I co-authored Dyslexia Tool Kit Expanded Edition: What to do when phonics isn’t enough. I love teaching dyslexic students to read! And I loved reading about the recent dyslexia research on visual asymmetry. Left-right Asymmetry of the Maxwell Spot Centroids in Adults without and […]