Dyspraxia Awareness Week 9th - 15th October 2023 The Dyspraxia Foundation appreciates that dyspraxia/DCD is a life-long condition. In 2023, our annual national campaign Dyspraxia Awareness Week is set to...
Dysgraphia Treatment & Multi-Sensory Teaching
As dysgraphia is not a disease, no ‘treatment’ exists. However, you can help a student with dysgraphia by using Multi-Sensory Teaching Methods and developing skills through play and lots of encouragement. Occupational Therapy can help. There are a lot of games, such as ‘Play-Doh’, that can help.
Furthermore, we are lucky that many software programmes help us with literacy and numeracy skills. Touch Typing is beneficial for all students to help them get their thoughts down on paper.
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How to use “Open Dyslexic” Kindle Font
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"Open Dyslexic" Font Did you know the Kindle has a 'Dyslexic Font' on it? Kindle Makes Reading a Little Easier for People With Dyslexia by designing an "Open Dyslexic" font....
Should Schools Make Students Use Fountain Pens?
5th January 2022
Should Schools Make Students Use Fountain Pens? Can Student's Hand-Writing get better by using Fountain Pens? Why do some schools still insist that students use fountain pens? Because some tutors...
Are you Dyspraxic? This young girl certainly isn't? I saw this young girl, who was about eight years old, at Swindon hospital a while ago; she managed this difficult game...
Can Playing Games Improve your Handwriting (Dysgraphia)?
22nd March 2021
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...
Titanic Discoverer – My dyslexia helped me find 60 wrecks
28th February 2021
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...
