Dyslexia Awareness Dates 2023 to help raise understanding & awareness of dyslexia. The Dyslexia awareness Dates in 2023 encourage organisations, charities, campaigners, and schools to participate in various activities to...
Are Eye Tests Necessary for Children? Eye tests are essential for all of us but even more critical for our children. Yes, Yes and Yes, again! Many parents tell me...
Dysgraphia / Handwriting Problems – Try these ideas
There are over 25 muscles in the hand and fingers, so you can see why it is essential to have strong muscles, leading to good handwriting and drawing. You will...
It’s the holidays, let’s teach children to touch-type!
Should Children learn to Touch-Type? With the Easter holidays upon us, it would be a good time for children to touch type. Two of my favourite programmes are KAZ –...
Painting a Spider Web using ‘Q’ Tips & Very Fine Motor Control
Fine Motor Control using Q-tips to paint This young lad shows how easy he finds doing things like painting this spider's web with 'Q-tips'. That was not always the case;...
Can Playing Games Improve your Handwriting (Dysgraphia)?
Can playing marbles, linking paper clips, ‘Painting by Number’, mazes, nuts & bolts, Lego - help people with their handwriting? I don't think hardly anyone would have thought that playing...
Studies have shown that rosemary can improve your memory by 75%
Scientists Discover Herb that Increases Memory by 75% This study was carried out for several years now, but because I personally found it so interesting, I thought many of you...
Titanic Discoverer – My dyslexia helped me find 60 wrecks
Robert Ballard, who, under the ocean's darkness, said, "I live in a world where everywhere I go is totally dark. So you have to visualise it in your mind. And...
How can Playing Games Improve your Handwriting?
Dyslexia and Alternative Therapies – Book Reviews
Press Reviews British Dyslexia Association (BDA), Contact Magazine This book will be informative and helpful to those involved with dyslexic children... This book informs and will help parents to make...