Dyslexia Connect

For a dyslexic, reading out loud can be scary experience. As a dyslexia tutor, I am able to minimize this anxiety because the situation is one on one, and the student knows that the reason for their difficulties is understood. However, in a classroom, or a group of people, reading out loud can be a scary thing. For […]

During dyslexia tutoring, one of the areas we focus on during reading time is punctuation. Punctuation can be a problematic area for students with dyslexia, and most dyslexia tutors make this one of the focuses during their dyslexia tutoring sessions. Students with dyslexia don’t tend to see, or feel the rhythm of punctuation as well

As a dyslexia tutor, I have seen the remarkable impact that encouragement can make with dyslexic students. During dyslexia tutoring, I sometimes pause to show a student the material that they were working on a few months before. Often, the material will seem easy to them.  Sometimes it is hard for them to see the