by Beth Beamish | Oct 20, 2023 | Dyslexia Blog, Dyslexia Highlight, Other Learning Challenges
Which hand do you eat with? Write with? My son Harry has dyslexia. He also is mixed-handed (he doesn’t have a dominant hand), so is there a connection between dyslexia and hand dominance? I learned someone could use a different hand depending on the task once he...
by Beth Beamish | Sep 20, 2023 | Dyslexia Blog, Dyslexia Highlight, Education & Parenting
What jobs should your dyslexic teen be considering? My son, Harry, is fifteen and getting him out of bed in the morning to go to school is like prizing a limpet from a rock. There are many reasons for this reluctance, including how his hair looks. This morning, I...
by Beth Beamish | Aug 10, 2023 | Dyslexia Blog, Dyslexia Highlight, Education & Parenting
How to teach reading and spelling in 30 minutes a day I didn’t homeschool my son Harry, but I used a multi-sensory dyslexia programme to teach him reading and spelling in only 30 minutes a day. Before Harry Started School Before Harry started school, we did the...
by Beth Beamish | Mar 4, 2022 | Dyslexia Blog, Dyslexia Highlight, Education & Parenting
Children with dyslexia need a way to anchor facts in their memory to stop them from floating away. Teaching multiplication tables using stories helps anchor these tricky facts. In a school staffroom, I heard a teacher say to a colleague, “How hard is it for a child to...
