by Rosie Lewis | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Rosie Lewis | Jul 17, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Rosie Lewis | May 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Rosie Lewis | Apr 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Rosie Lewis | Mar 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
by Rosie Lewis | Feb 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
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...
