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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...

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...

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 –...

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;...

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 girl, who was about eight years old, at Swindon Hospital a while ago; she managed this challenging game simultaneously...

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...

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...

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...