Julianne Miller

A new UK definition of dyslexia I wanted to share this one because it is already being operationalised in the UK as part of granting extra time and other exam accommodations. It will help you, as a parent, understand more about decisions being made for your child. A large panel of dyslexia experts has agreed on a shared definition of dyslexia for the first time. They also agreed on how it should be identified. The researchers ran a two-round survey with 58 experts from the UK and 13 other...

What research suggests about teaching explicit planning skills Planning doesn’t come naturally for most children with ADHD. Imagination and insight, yes, but organising learning for storage and retrieval is not necessarily intuitive. Ask a child what sort of planning they have done for an essay, and you’re likely to hear that they prefer to free-style in the moment. As you might imagine, the constraint of planning can actually feel uncomfortable. Researchers at the Link Campus University...

Practical support for reluctant readers Summer is a great time to read. For many kids, sitting in the shade of a big tree and devouring a book is synonymous with summer leisure. You can choose your own book without the pressure of school performance, just losing yourself in a story. For a dyslexic child, a standard paperback is not a neutral object. Reading is effortful, associated with the stigma of reading poorly in class, or being taken out for reading support. Even though many, many...