by Jo Rees | Mar 4, 2022 | General News
“I can’t use a pen because I don’t have a pen licence because my writing is not good enough.” These words came out of an 8-year-old I assessed recently! This was prompted when I offered him a variety of different writing implements to complete a spelling test. It’s...
by Jo Rees | Feb 27, 2022 | General News
This was one of the first questions a 7-year-old asked me when we started an assessment last week. I started to explain that on this occasion we were just looking at why perhaps their brain was finding it challenging to learn to read, and hopefully find some answers...
by Jo Rees | Feb 2, 2022 | General News
How often do you have conversations with your children or young people about what they could be when they are older? We have conversations in our house all the time. Yes, it changes wildly, from year to year, sometimes day to day, BUT it’s really important that...
by Jo Rees | Jan 31, 2022 | General News
Did you know that the meaning of language can sometimes be confusing for people with Dyslexia? Let me explain using a real-life example. We have one child in isolation with a positive lateral flow and PCR. So, the rest of us went for PCR test and the results were...
by Jo Rees | Jan 27, 2022 | General News
I just wrote an email to send to my mailing list. I read it and read it again to check for sense. Then I read it again to check for grammar. Luckily, I sent a test email because when the test came through, I noted a grammatical error. Families verses family’s One is...
