Multi-sensory learning specialist, Dr Susie Nyman shares her top ten tips for sparking engagement with learning for your children at home. Lots of fun with creativity to be had with these awesome tips.

As parents are now the new ‘teachers’ of children, do they need to understand the curriculum in more detail so that they can help their children through these turbulent educational months? This article shares some important information that parents can refer to about the National Curriculum as well as find out how you can obtain curriculum based resources that are dyslexic friendly.

We are getting close to exam season and your dyslexic learners will need to be preparing for those upcoming exams. In this article I will share some tips on how to keep the brain in shape and reduce overwhelm so that the student has a chance to shine.

Are schools missing a trick in ensuring high levels of attainment by not investing in dyslexia friendly resources and practises that could benefit ALL pupils, not just the dyslexic ones?

On the 6th February 2020, the British Dyslexia Association is holding the Good Practice in Dyslexia and Literacy Conference in London. Friend of the blog, Dr Susie Nyman is one of the speakers. This article provides a snapshot of her talk on how to get an A* in literacy.

With multi-sensory learning being a huge hit for dyslexic learners, it makes sense then that using board games to learn could well come with benefits. Let’s look at five great reasons why this could be the case.

In the UK it is estimated that up to 10,000 families with dyslexic kids are home educating rather than sending their kids to school. Early Years to HE consultant, educator, doctoral researcher and dyslexia/SpLD assessor, Sarah Gillie shares some useful resources for parents who educate their dyslexic kids at home.

October 2019 has been International Dyslexia Awareness Month and as we have found out more about dyslexia we have started to realise how much we need ideas to engage and support our dyslexic children in education. Check out this article to download a bumper pack of dyslexia friendly study resources.

Curriculum manager at Farnborough Sixth Form College, Dr Susie Nyman shares how she has helped dyslexic students to boost their attainment through multi-sensory learning. If you are a teacher struggling to build engagement then this article is for you.

In this article I am going to review a lovely book about the highs and lows of a mother, Lois Letchford who home-schooled her son, Nicholas, who was essentially written off as being able to learn by his teachers in school. Reversed, by Lois Letchford will be for you if you are looking for inspiration for the support of your child.