Dyslexia Connect Blog

For dyslexia tutors, it is important to understand that building a dyslexic student’s confidence is vitally important to helping that child succeed. For many dyslexics, the experience of school and academics has been one of failure and discouragement. Without treatment, dyslexics often begin to lose faith in their intelligence and their ability to succeed in […]

Multiplication can be very difficult for students with dyslexia. As a dyslexia tutor, I have often advised the parents of my students on how to help their dyslexic children improve in this area. For a dyslexic, numbers can be difficult in the same way that letters can be difficult. As a result, basic math skills

There are many symptoms of dyslexia that can be perplexing for parents of dyslexics; one of the most prominent is a child’s difficulty with small words. In my work as a dyslexia tutor, I often have exasperated parents ask me why their children can be smoothly reading a sentences with fairly complex words, and then stumble