Did you know the sound of your child’s voice can be used to boost their reading skills?

Jamie Oliver’s creative approach to cooking shows how dyslexic minds think differently. Many dyslexic learners thrive when their strengths are nurtured through intuition and creativity rather than structure.

Maths problem solving can be tough, even for children with strong memories. Success relies on flexible thinking, language skills, and working memory. Discover key challenges and practical ways to support your child’s maths learning journey.

Do you ever have that itch to jump to the next most fascinating book and can't wait to finish the current book, regardless of how good it is?

Can you do the  ‘The Floss dance?’

It always surprises me how quickly a child of any school age, from 4 years upwards, can grasp this skill of solving Sudoku puzzles. It does not matter what the diagnosis is; dyslexia, dyscalculia, Asperger’s, dyspraxia… even dysgraphia

Despite years of phonics instruction in schools, many children still struggle with reading. This post explores why proper instruction matters, how to spot early signs of difficulty, like confusion with vowel sounds and what parents can do at home to support their child's reading journey.

Some children learn better when doing a practical thing, rather than thinking deeply or reading about it. The act of ‘doing’ helps some children remember the task at hand.

A parent came to me, shocked to hear the evaluation for her daughter. After a two-month break from intensive occupational therap,y her 7-year-old daughter was displaying weak core strength.

When children do not appear to be listening, parents often put it down to hearing problems. This blog is about understanding a condition called Auditory Processing Disorder. For those who have good hearing equipment, but have difficulty processing the information they hear.

Willpower is a mental resource linked to the brain’s anterior mid-cingulated cortex, which grows when we push through challenging tasks. Programs like Cogmed working memory training build willpower by gradually increasing mental load and improving focus, helping children and adults develop resilience and greater self-control.

In November 2017, I met Eemaan, a sparkly bright four-year-old diagnosed with Down syndrome, for the first time. Nine months from our first meeting, Eemaan is now using sentences.

As one of those individuals who always felt at fault, continually trying to improve and iron out flaws, it was somewhat ironic that my so-called defects, dyslexia and all the issues that surround this diagnosis, were the thing that made me unique in the first place.

Do you write with your left or right hand? This is a preference your brain and body has decided is the strongest for this particular task, it is your 'dominant hand'.

I was watching one of my students write the other day, and noticed countless problems with her seated position, her pencil grip, and how she was obscuring the sentence with her hand as she wrote. The effort was enormous on her part.

In 2010, I left my young daughter behind to travel to Tucson, Arizona and train in Bal-A-Vis-X. What I discovered there changed the course of my work, and my mission.