
Explore dyslexia characteristics, impacts, and practical strategies for supporting children with homework and literacy, guided by tried-and-tested methods to boost self-esteem for parents, grandparents, and carers.
Discover that dyslexia is a lifelong, genetic learning difficulty affecting reading and spelling, not linked to IQ, with myths around the condition dispelled.
Identify common characteristics of dyslexia, including organizational and timekeeping challenges, co-occurring dyscalculia and dyspraxia, reverse letters, and the term word blindness.
Dyslexia affects more than spelling and reading, impacting arithmetic, timekeeping, money skills, organization, access to information, and phonetics challenges, including the dirty 30.
Create a dyslexia-friendly homework routine with a dedicated space and pencil case. Use a box for materials, set breaks, and allow alternative responses like diagrams and voice recordings.
Examine how dyslexia and ADHD overlap, how literacy challenges shape behavior, and why ruling out dyslexia first improves ADHD assessment and support.
There are many misunderstandings about Dyslexia. It's a specific learning difficulty, which often means it can cause problems with certain abilities which we use for learning, such as reading and writing.
Unlike some other learning disabilities, intelligence isn't something which is affected, although this may cause some disadvantage in many areas of life.
This course will help to dispel the myths and learn the facts about Dyslexia, and by attending you will have a greater understanding of the condition, and be able to make some changes to your approaches at home.
By the end of the course, parents and carers will be able to recognise some of the most common features of Dyslexia, and provide help to overcome the challenges which Dyslexia brings to individuals of all ages. During the course I provide some clear strategies to support children with their homework and any other areas of concern, which are sometimes overlooked or not related to Dyslexia.
Part of the programme is a whole section on homework. In that session I provide you with really practical ways in which to not only improve the homework experience, but also to give reasonable support your child during what can be a very stressful time. You can learn what will work, and what to avoid, and by doing so you can be confident that your child is likely to be much more resilient to the struggles they may encounter.