#68 Tip:The Importance of Toys for Dyslexia
How Einstein was an uncooperative child and had a bad temper. Also Isaac Newton was regarded as a “simpleton” who only knew how to make toys Let’s talk about how toys aren’t just toys in the hands of ...
9 Kesä 202025min
#67 Tip:Why putting thoughts into words can be hard with dyslexia? (Dyslexic Advantage Ch 7 P 64-67)
In today's coffee time, we are going to talk about how often it’s puzzling to teachers why bright students with dyslexia find it so hard to answer open-ended questions. Einstein, a famous dyslexic, on...
8 Kesä 202028min
#66 Tip:Is reversing letters a sign of dyslexia? (Dyslexic Advantage Ch7 P 61-63)
You might be surprised to hear that flipping letters while you read or write isn't a common trait of dyslexia. But it is often a sign of extreme dyslexia like Leonardo da Vinci. I used to think I wasn...
5 Kesä 202025min
#65 Tip:Becoming an Effective Contributor with Dyslexia
How it’s helpful to take a school project all the way to its full completion in the real world. For example, turning a school essay into a blog or a business idea into a pop-up business - and why that...
4 Kesä 202030min
#64 Tip:Dyslexia and the importance of fast feedback when they learn.
In today's live podcast/parent's coffee time, let's explore how critical verbal or visual feedback is to people with the dyslexic mind. For example, how conversations are so important, secondly how do...
3 Kesä 202021min
#63 Tip:How prototyping ideas with children can help their dyslexia
In today's podcast/parent's coffee time, we're going to explore the story of Stan Gloss and some advice he gave in an interview with understood.org and some interesting comments and ideas on how to he...
2 Kesä 202032min
#62 Tip:Feynman Technique: A technique we use to help children with dyslexia learn faster
I want to share with you a cool little technique that helps children with dyslexia learn things faster. We use it a lot with the children that we tutor. It's a variation of the Feynman technique. In t...
1 Kesä 202018min
#61 Tip:How to explain to a child how their brain works
The "zero-gravity workshop" of a dyslexic thinker's mind. Get a preview of podcast episode 61 where we explain how a dyslexic mind is like working in a zero-gravity workshop and what we can do about i...
29 Touko 202018min
