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Is your child struggling in school? Are you concerned about their success? A recent interview with Cornell Amerson by Educating Dyslexia has shed some light on the struggles that kids go through when they have a learning disability. He addresses his own personal struggles and sheds light on the issue. Being able to identify aRead more

Learning to read may appear natural and, therefore, easy to teach. Yet it’s one of the most difficult tasks any child will take on; and homeschooling parents must cover some important foundational topics along the way. The National Reading Panel has identified these skills as phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. A great dealRead more

My son is Dyslexic and I admit that I all too often fall into the mode of lamenting that he (and my family) must deal with his condition. I wallow and worry about how he struggles in school and at home. Together we suffer through the standard approaches to learning and doing things, and weRead more

So What Is Dyslexia Anyway? Here we explore Two “Classic” Symptoms and what they may actually mean. We often wonder, “Is my child dyslexic?” or “Am I?” and “What exactly is dyslexia?” “Should I seek dyslexia assessment, or dyslexia therapy for my child?” However, in our experience, and in that of most people working in the field,Read more

One of the things we continue to celebrate at the Therapeutic Learning Center is the vast and barely comprehensible complexity of the human mind. In being given the opportunity to work every day with students who have learning differences, we are continually inspired by the many ways in which we are able to harness aRead more