by Fernette Eide | | Language Arts, Premium, Premium Content, Spelling, Strategies, Technology
This issue features our largest Premium TECH Guide ever at 54 pages! Become a Premium subscriber at just $5 per month. Individual issues can also be purchased through Dyslexic Advantage apps in iTunes or Google Play. Dyslexic Advantage Premium Apps review includes the...
by Fernette Eide | | 504, Accommodations, Education, IEP, Language Arts, MIND strengths, Reading, Teachers, Writing
From the Connecticut Longitudinal Study, up to 1 in 6 students are dyslexic, but only a minority of these students will be found in special education classrooms. What does this mean for regular classroom teachers? 1. Get Basic Facts about Dyslexia – Dyslexic...
by Sarah from Dyslexic Advantage | | Being Dyslexic, Curriculum, dyslexia, Education, Language Arts, Learning, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Teachers, Teaching
TRICKY WORDS:WHEN SIGHTS AND SOUNDS DON’T MATCHSpotlight: Inflectional Suffixes Because many dyslexic students don’t have a visual imprint of words, there are common spelling or pronunciation errors that occur when word endings seem to vary. In most cases, being...
by Sarah from Dyslexic Advantage | | Curriculum, dyslexia, Education, Language Arts, Learning, Premium, Premium Content, Spelling, Strategies, Teachers, Teaching
Once you learn how to recognize the ‘schwa’, you’ll start recognizing them everywhere! In linguistics, the schwa sound is represented by an upside-down ‘e’ and the mouth position is a lot like the ‘uh’ sound in ‘butter’. It contributes to lots of misspellings in...
by Sarah from Dyslexic Advantage | | Accessibility, Accommodations, College, dyslexia, ELLs, Foreign Language, Language Arts, Learning, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Strategies
At Harvard University in the 1970’s, a clinical psychologst made a startling discovery. Intending on studying the emotional problems that caused students at one of the world’s elite universities to drop out of school to drop out, he found out instead that the most...
by Fernette Eide | | Education, Language Arts, Premium, Premium Content, Psychology, School, Social and Emotional, Teachers, Teaching
In the latest issue of the Journal of Learning Disabilities, researchers from Harvard and Greece found that classroom culture, and in particular LD students’ perceptions of their classrooms motivational framework had sudden, significant, and unpredictable effects on...