by Fernette Eide | | Being Dyslexic, Dyslexic Advantage Magazine, Learning, Memory, Premium, Premium Content, Stealth Dyslexia, Strategies, Teachers, Technology
Premium Issue 11 October 29, 2016 Organizing Creativity, Stealth Dyslexia, Dyslexia and Self Image, Memorizing for School, What Worked for 2E Gifted Dyslexics, Art Therapy for Dysgraphia, Hands-On Math for Fractions, More Interactive Reading Strategies, Mastering...
by Fernette Eide | | Accommodations, Advocacy, Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Research, Stealth Dyslexia, Writing
It can be maddening. You look and look you just don’t see it. Later you pass your work along, you see all the thing you hadn’t seen the first time round. What’s going on ? You’ve experienced a ‘trick’ of perception. In our clinic,...
by Fernette Eide | | Being Dyslexic, College, Learning, Premium, Premium Content, Stealth Dyslexia, Strategies
“Divida et Impera.” – Julius Caesar There’s an old military strategy of Divide and Conquer that’s been in operation even before Julius Caesar’s Divida et Impera (Divide and Rule), and it turns out divide and conquer can be helpful if you’re dyslexic too. Recently, we...
by Fernette Eide | | Assessment, Dysgraphia, Premium, Premium Content, Psychology, RTI, Stealth Dyslexia, Teachers, Testing
I recently came across Bobby Gilman’s article on the critical issues facing twice-exceptional or Gifted LD students at school. It’s an ambitious paper for sure, but provides a solid big picture view of the challenges that 2E students face in their pursuit of an...
by Fernette Eide | | Being Dyslexic, College, Dysgraphia, Education, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Stealth Dyslexia, Teachers
It’s long been known that Dyslexia and ADD / ADHD have high rates of overlaps or “co-morbidities”. Dyslexia and ADHD co-occur 30-50% of the time (Germano, 2010) and only 40% of children with dyslexia and 20% of children with ADD/ADHD have it in isolation (Wilcutt and...
by Fernette Eide | | Assessment, Premium, Premium Content, School, Stealth Dyslexia
“Two years after starting school, 1/3 of children who had experienced articulatory problems or whose language acquisition had been delayed were significantly behind in reading and spelling. By contrast, only one of twenty children in the control situation were...