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What to say and how to approach it As a parent while you might not be realising that your child is experiencing dyslexia most parents do generally have a feeling that something isn’t right with their child’s learning and starting a conversation with school can feel...

What parents notice before school... 19 years as a dyslexia assessor, 15 years as a primary school teacher and SENCO, parenting three children with dyslexia, and being a late-diagnosed dyslexic myself, has taught me … Often parents spot a child’s dyslexia before...

5 reasons why as a parent of dyslexics we don’t measure success by exam grades!1. A grade is not a measure of effort.There are way too many variables. The questions, the day, the environment, the anxiety, the quality of teach, the grade boundaries. So much they are...

I was sitting in the garden. Sun on my face. Husband of nearly 25 years beside me.Silence.And I suddenly didn’t know who I was. My son is in Australia, nearly 21. My daughter’s at uni, 19. My youngest 16, was out with her boyfriend.And in that quiet moment when I...

This is something I have learned about dyslexia personally and there are even some people I need to entirely avoid because they genuinely make me forget how to write my own name! Most of the time it’s not intentional, it just happens. Recently, after a ‘ Creating...

I have, unintentionally, upset a lot of people.Talking about how dyslexia friendly classrooms have become tick box exercises.When a parent shared a specialist dyslexia report recently, the teacher stated 'we don't need to do any of these recommendations because our...

January 10th 2026 marks 10 years of being an independent dyslexia business and I can’t quite believe it. If I’m honest, I have surprised myself in these last 10 years and I’m not really sure how I got here. This path has been and continues to be far from straight...

I am owning my dyslexic parenting wins.It’s been an emotional few weeks in my world because we are entering a new era of parenting.As we watch our kids become young people and own the paths they choose to tread, different from...

‘He is unrecognisable - attends school, engages, has made progress academically and is just walking taller, he is even helping other children in his class come to terms with their dyslexia diagnosis…’Today’s feedback from a parent - I diagnosed dyslexia in their child...

My dyslexia used to make me ashamed and embarrassed!Not because Dyslexia is anything to be ashamed of, but because when I made a typo, when I use the wrong word, when somebody laughed at me for using the wrong word, when my grammar was publicly pointed out as being...