If you’ve been around Abundant Life for any time, you know that most of my kids learn differently because of something called dyslexia. I have had a love/hate relationship with coming to understand this style of learning. On the one hand, dyslexia causes reading, writing and spelling to be so painfully difficult. On [...]
10 Books About Dyslexia That I Read Again and Again
May 21, 2013 7 Comments
If you’ve been around Abundant Life for any time, you know that most of my kids learn differently because of something called dyslexia. I have had a love/hate relationship with coming to understand this style of learning. On the one hand, dyslexia causes reading, writing and spelling to be so painfully difficult. On [...]
Living With Dyslexia: Expectations & Reality
May 15, 2013 6 Comments
I don’t know why the end-of-year conferences with my kids’ educational therapist makes me so nervous. It is a strange thing really. My kids’ improvement in reading, writing and spelling, or lack thereof, really isn’t related to how well I teach, feed or parent them. But somehow it still feels like it. If you’re [...]Share and Enjoy
Signs of Dyslexia
March 20, 2013 3 Comments
Signs of Dyslexia You may be wondering if you or one of your family members have dyslexia. There are signs and characteristics that parents and teachers can look for. If your child has 3 or more symptoms and there is a family history of dyslexia, you should consider having your child tested when they turn five. Signs [...]Share and Enjoy
Reader Question: What About my Older Struggling Reader?
March 15, 2013 1 Comment
I received a question recently from a reader with an 11th grade son who was a struggling reader. He had many of the classic signs of dyslexia although he had never been diagnosed or tested. He was still not entirely independent with his schoolwork, especially with reading and understanding text books and test questions. Mom [...]Share and Enjoy
Teaching Reading to a Dyslexic Student
March 13, 2013 1 Comment
Teaching reading is such an incredible privilege. As an avid reader from an early age, my favorite books have become like friends to me. A large portion of my fondest childhood memories are of the great books I read. So when I had my own children, I filled my house with books [...]
