Overcoming Dyslexia's Challenges: Five Famous Examples

Overcoming Dyslexia's Challenges: Five Famous Examples

The International Dyslexia Association defines dyslexia as a learning disability that impairs a person’s ability to read, write and spell. Some dyslexics experience other symptoms such as trouble comprehending math, poor coordination or vision problems. Dyslexia is manageable and …
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Using an Orton Gillingham Approach in the Home

Using an Orton Gillingham Approach in the Home

If you have a child who struggles with reading you will do everything you can to understand the reasons for your child’s difficulties.  You have seen your child’s frustration and have suffered alongside them as you yourself struggle to understand how to help them. In your …
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Multi-Sensory Instruction: Use it Effectively

Multi-Sensory Instruction: Use it Effectively

There are two great blog posts Reading Horizons has that explain the reason for multi-sensory instruction and how to properly apply a multi-sensory approach to teaching reading. Those two posts are: The Connection Between Vocabulary and Reading Skills and A Simple Strategy for Teaching …
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Why Should Parents Care About Phonics Instruction?

Why Should Parents Care About Phonics Instruction?

Experience teaches us to be skeptical when things seem too good to be true, and it seems like 98% of the time an opportunity appears too amazing, something surely is amiss.  But sometimes you find a wonderful thing that doesn’t come with a catch, like the perfect pair of shoes …
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Take a Bite Out of Evertaster:  A Brand New Book Series for Picky Eaters...I Mean Kids

Take a Bite Out of Evertaster: A Brand New Book Series for Picky Eaters...I Mean Kids

Are you looking for something yummy…to read?   A new novel by up-and-coming author Adam Glendon Sidwell will give you just that – a tasty treat for your imagination.  Evertaster is set to be released on June 14, 2012, so kids and adults alike have a reason to …
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The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia

Reading Horizons is located in Salt Lake City- the heart of Utah. But about 30 miles east of Salt Lake City (a 40-minute drive through a vast canyon and an increase of elevation of about 3500 feet) you enter Park City. A trendy city most known for its ski resorts and the prestigious and …
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Can a Font Really Help Dyslexic Readers?

Can a Font Really Help Dyslexic Readers?

A graphic designer by the name of Christian Boer had developed a font to aid his own dyslexia and he has released it to be available for purchase online. But can a font really help dyslexic readers? Acocrding to an article published by Scientific American, “it has received …
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Dyslexia & Reading Difficulties Independent of Other Cognitive Abilities

Dyslexia & Reading Difficulties Independent of Other Cognitive Abilities

When you were (or still are) in school was there ever a concept that seemed impossible to grasp? Regardless of the effort you exerted it never seemed to come together for you. This is the case for the 10% of American children diagnosed with dyslexia… despite their best efforts they …
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The Dyslexic Advantage

The Dyslexic Advantage

Tommy Hilfiger, Pablo Picasso, Leonardo da Vinci, Walt Disney, Muhammad Ali, Agatha Christie, Edgar Allen Poe, Richard Branson, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Sir Issac Newton, Benjamin Franklin, Winston Churchill, John F. Kennedy, Thomas Jefferson, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, …
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How Can Someone with Dyslexia Learn to Read?

How Can Someone with Dyslexia Learn to Read?

"Dyslexia is not a disease to have and to be cured of, but a way of thinking and learning. Often it's a gifted mind waiting to be found and taught." - Girard Sagmiller, Dyslexia My Life The dyslexic mind is truly gifted. Those with dyslexia are able to look at things as a big …
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