Dyslexia is the most common learning disability, and 80% of students who have a diagnosed learning disability have dyslexia. Boys are more likely to be dyslexic than girls, according to a resource from the University of Michigan. Dyslexia is a complex language problem. It is not a vision problem, but rather has to do with […]
Tracy suffers from a learning disability. She was in tenth grade, but due to dyslexia she was reading at a third grade level. Her family was concerned that she might not even finish high school. They wanted her to graduate and if possible go on to community college. Tracy had been a special education student […]
Most learning disabilities have no permanent cure. But our amazing brains compensate by adapting other sections of the brain to function for the disabled parts. Our method of teaching reading trains the left side of the brain, which is the brain’s most efficient way of learning languages. So while we can’t cure learning disabilities, our […]
Many of our students have been diagnosed with dyslexia or other learning disabilities. Some have dyslexia, others have had speech problems or ADHD. The parents of one of our students had been told their daughter could not learn to read due to her speech problems. But in just six months she had caught up […]
In English, the 26 letters of the alphabet are a code that represents sounds. Almost anyone who can understand spoken English can learn to read. Yet many individuals fail to achieve literacy. Reading English can be baffling for those who learn English as a second language, and even many native speakers. Written English is composed […]
