by Beth Beamish | Mar 27, 2026 | Dyslexia Blog, Dyslexia Highlight, Education & Parenting, News
When author Reyna Marder Gentin sent me a copy of her middle-grade novel ‘My Name is Leyla,’ to review, I was delighted. This is an engaging story featuring a teenage girl living with undiagnosed dyslexia. What immediately stood out to me was how real and...
by Beth Beamish | Aug 4, 2025 | Dyslexia Blog, Dyslexia Highlight, Parenting tips
Quality sleep is crucial for dyslexic children because they work much harder than other kids to achieve the same results. Our children may even have to work harder while they sleep because they find processing and storing information more difficult.[i] According to...
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...
