by Bob Almack | Oct 20, 2011 | General, Importance of Early Literacy
U.S. pediatricians call on parents to keep children away from television, videos until their second birthday. Vancouver Sun, Wed Oct 19 2011, Page: B1 / Front, Section: Canada & World, By: Elizabeth Lopatto, Dateline: NEW YORK, Source: Bloomberg And Agence...
by Bob Almack | Oct 19, 2011 | Dyslexia, General, Reading Fluency
ScienceDaily (July 26, 2007) — Not being able to read doesn’t just make it harder to navigate each day. Low literacy impairs people’s ability to obtain critical information about their health and can dramatically shorten their lives. A study from...
by Bob Almack | Oct 11, 2011 | Dyslexia, General, Reading Fluency
In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the use of assistive technology to help people with learning disabilities cope with their challenges. One of the most effective is Dragon Naturally speaking. This “speech to text” software does a great job...
by Bob Almack | Oct 8, 2011 | Dyslexia, General, Importance of Early Literacy, Reading Fluency
A young child must develop phonemic awareness if she is to become a reader. That is to say she must understand that spoken words are made up of smaller units of speech sounds, called phonemes. “The end point is for a child to develop phonemic awareness, the most...