by Arran Smith | Nov 30, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
How do we encourage young people who experience low self-esteem as a result of their experiences with dyslexia? Let’s talk about their strengths and how valuable they are. Today the focus is Resilience.Young people with dyslexia commonly experience poor self-esteem...
by Arran Smith | Nov 20, 2019 | Education
With up to 10,000 families in the UK with dyslexic children who have chosen to home educate, it is important that those parents get the information that they need to help their children to discover their potential. Educational consultant, researcher and dyslexia...
by Arran Smith | Nov 8, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
When you give instructions to a child and it seems to go in one ear and then out the other, could that be a child misbehaving or could they simply be experiencing poor working memory? I absolutely love reading information about Working Memory. I love this because I...
by Arran Smith | Oct 25, 2019 | Education
Part 2 of the initiative to influence UK politicians about the ‘Cost of Dyslexia’ with a focus this time on the cost of dyslexia on our education system. Readers of this article will be familiar with the Human Cost of Dyslexia work that was used to influence...
by Arran Smith | Oct 18, 2019 | Education
The SEN Jigsaw Conference has recently announced who the plenary speakers are for their 5th event and they will probably be familiar to you.As co-organiser of the SEN Jigsaw Conference, I am absolutely delighted that we are able to bring together parents, teachers and...
by Arran Smith | Oct 18, 2019 | Education
October 2019 has been International Dyslexia Awareness Month and people all over the world have been raising awareness about what dyslexia is, how to support it and also how to tell more people about the strengths that come with being dyslexic. In a recent article, I...
