By: Troy and Lisa Hubbell - Your Dyslexia Expert Expert Dyslexia Support, Any Time, Anywhere One complaint that I hear frequently from parents who hire us for online dyslexia help and expert online dyslexia support is that their child’s school isn’t listening.  They are frequently told to give the interventions more time, or wait and see, or that there are more steps in the MTSS process.  The entire process can be overwhelming and frustrating, and all the while you can see th

It can be frustrating, terrifying, and overwhelming to watch your child struggle to read or to find out that they have dyslexia.  Most parents who come to me report monumental difficulties.  Oftentimes the school wants to take a wait and see approach or doesn’t seem to know how to help, the amount of information (or lack of helpful information) is beyond exhausting.  Where do you turn?  What do you do? I created this post to offer you a roadmap.  Whether or not you choose to

Working memory is like the brain’s workspace. Imagine a brain as if it were a person. The job of that person is to manage the information coming in, organize it, and respond to it. Imagine that this person is sitting at a desk. Whatever they can fit on that desk is what they can pay attention to at any given time.  This desk is their working memory. When reading, they need to fit information about the letters and spelling patterns, the sounds those spellings refer to, the mea

Dyslexia is a phonological processing deficit.  That means that those with dyslexia have trouble isolating and manipulating the sounds (phonemes) in oral language.   It turns out that this skill is crucial for reading.  Why?  In order to read the word “cat” I need to know that each of the little squiggles that we call letters actually represents a sound. I then need to connect the letters to their sounds and be able to blend those sounds into a big sound that we call a word. 

What is dyslexia? The International Dyslexia Association defines dyslexia in the following way “Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the phonological component of language that is often unexpected in relation to other cognitive abilities and the provision of

What is reading? Reading is an extremely complex process, and there have been many theories about how people learn to read.  In 1997, the U.S. government commissioned a study that is called The National Reading Panel.  The goal of the study was to analyze all of the available research to determine what, if any, practices were effective in teaching children how to read.  In the decades since the National Reading Panel, its findings have been expanded on, but every major study