Dyslexia Connect Blog

A dyslexia tutor sees many different symptoms of dyslexia when working with their dyslexic students, and one of the most common of these symptoms is the act of  adding extra letters. For a dyslexic student, adding extra letters to a word can be as common as mixing up the lowercase “b” and “d”.  In my years of dyslexia tutoring, I […]

As a dyslexia tutor, one of the activities that I have my dyslexic students do every session is read aloud. Typically, we do this last during a dyslexia tutoring session, because it provides reinforcement for everything that the student has been learning that day and during previous sessions. This activity is not only valuable for dyslexia

In my last post, I discussed the advice that dyslexia tutors often give to parents who wish to find books to read with their dyslexic children. In this post, I thought that I would offer some other tips on choosing books that I have come up with in my years as a dyslexia tutor. One important aspect of choosing reading