Dyslexia

When a loved on is diagnosed with dyslexia, often the first concern is where to get help with dyslexia. If you suspect that you have dyslexia then it is wise to learn where to get help with dyslexia.

A question I get asked a lot is are there any tests for dyslexia? There are many free online tests for dyslexia. They serve their purpose however these tests only give you a general indication of the likely hood of having dyslexia. Since no two people are the same nor are two dyslexic people, therefore appropriate testing needs to be intensive. Not only will you to need to know whether you have dyslexia but also how that plays out for you.

What is dyslexia is a question that haunts parents teachers, friends and students. The word dyslexia is derived from the Greek word, dys (meaning poor or inadequate) and the word lexis (meaning words or language). Dyslexia is an inherited condition that makes it extremely difficult to learn to read write and spell in your own language despite being smart enough to learn, wanting to learn and being exposed to teaching methods that worked for most everybody else.

I am working with an incredible young man at the moment. I can see within him an individual that is highly creative, inspirational and passionate about everything that he does. There is one thing that he is not passionate about, and that’s his past. He looks back and sees a troubled youth, particularly remembering his [...]

My educational journey about adult dyslexia has come full circle. It seems that somehow the law of attraction is involved in the process. I am not saying that the person with dyslexia has attracted it to themselves. The Ron Davis method for undoing the disorientation that takes place in dyslexia suggests that dyslexia is a gift. Dyslexics show from an early age that they [...]

I am often being asked what is adult dyslexia so in today’s article I will attempt to cover this for our readers. I will begin with a case study and tell you his story…

18/04/12  Teacher continues to learn about dyslexia Hello this is Loddy and welcome to my post. Last week a person made a comment about how much I learn when I teach people with Dyslexia. My young adult student clearly reminded me of this fact tonight. He said after reading (the post about him titled are [...]

Are you worthy to receive? Hello today we are going to explore and investigate how worthy you are to receive the life you have. I have been tutoring  a young dyslexic adult and he inspired me to write this post. Our discussion last night was not about his challenges with reading and writing. The discussion was more about what his life [...]

Do you want to relive the nightmare? The title of this post is designed to shock me into the realisation that by teaching dyslexic adults to revisit the nightmare of their education I am in fact making them relive it? Yet it seems that they are up for the agony of it just to improve their literacy skills. Will [...]

Hello my name is Loddy Micucci and I am a teacher and have been a teacher for more than twenty years. I can’t believe I am writing this article and yet it needs to be said. I mean every word of it. I have just had one of those light bulb moments and as usual [...]

Could it be dyslexia? It’s the start of a new school year. You have just been given a new group of kids and of course you have your  huge assortment of abilities. They are all there in their different shapes and sizes. The noisy ones, the active ones, the ready to please ones and of course the [...]

When you think of Richard Branson what picture comes to mind? Billionaire? A man who had never to want for anything and will always have everything he wants. A real successful person who had a fantastic start in life. Probably somebody who was born with a sliver spoon in his mouth! So what makes this [...]

What did the Fonz cover up? Happy days star Henry Winkler Fonzarelli was covering up his inability to achieve at school. The cool larakin who could confidently snap his fingers and had all the girls running to satisfy his every wish had dyslexia. The outward going Fonz strutted his stuff and used the outgoing cool façade to mask this [...]

What is right brain dominance? People can be left hand or right hand dominant. In other words they prefer a certain side of their body for particular activities. Some people are ambidextrous they can interchange hands and use either one equally as well. The most powerful example of an ambidextrous person that I ever saw was an [...]

Dyslexia is it the devil in disguise or a gift? Dyslexia is it the devil in disguise or is it a gift? It seems that dyslexia can manifest itself in many different ways. It is predominantly a learning issue created when an individual is right brain dominant. People with dyslexia are frustrated by the learning system they [...]