by Arran Smith | Sep 10, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
Parents of dyslexic children across the UK are struggling with getting support for their child in the classroom. Beccie Hawes, Head of Service at the Rushall Inclusion Advisory Team has some great tips that you can pass to your teachers that will help.As a parent what...
by Arran Smith | Aug 7, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing
When dyslexic it can be really challenging taking notes. Often these have to be taken under some kind of time pressure within school or college. This YouTube video from The Bell House shows an exercise that you can do to experience the difficulties of note taking for...
by Arran Smith | Aug 2, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
If we are to help our children and young people to be the best that they can be despite the challenges of being dyslexic, then we need to be able to boost their self-esteem not just their academic abilities. How do we do that?What is more likely to help a dyslexic...
by Arran Smith | Jul 26, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
How does being a student with dyslexia make you feel? This is the essential question behind my recent survey of dyslexic students. Scroll down to see what they expressed about studying and self-esteem. What you need to know about this survey.When I put this survey...
by Arran Smith | Jun 28, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
How does being a student with dyslexia make you feel? If you are a student between the ages of 11 and 21, we want you to tell us how you feel about your academic journey so far and how it impacts on your self-esteem, with our latest survey. I was speaking the other...
by Arran Smith | Jun 17, 2019 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
On Saturday June 8th Georgina Smith and I organised the 4th SEN Jigsaw 2019.This article will give you a brief overview on what happened and give you an opportunity to be kept up to date on the latest news about 2020’s conference.Who would have thought that when...
