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Getting Started: Your First Week with Visual Reading
A guide to beginning your Visual Reading journey with practical suggestions and tips.
Overcoming Dyslexia with Visual Learning Techniques
Learn how Visual Reading specifically helps individuals with dyslexia, dyspraxia, and other learning differences.
Unlocking the Power of Visual Reading: A Journey of Transformation
These students haven’t merely boosted their reading capacities and stamina; they’ve also discovered something profound—they’ve learned to embrace their unique differences.
Weekly Reading Tips: Building Better Reading Habits
Simple daily practices that can enhance your reading experience and comprehension.
The Bagatelle Model of Specific Learning Differences
In the Bagatelle model, the ‘difficulties’ are a product of being disabled by a sequential world intolerant to holistic processing of information and the unnecessary imposition of sequential processing and learning strategies. The ‘difficulties’ are not the ‘difference’, they are an unnecessary consequence of the difference.
The Social Mechanics of our Disablement
Neurodivergence is often mistakenly perceived to be the result of being different from most other people, when it is actually a consequence of unintentionally challenging social power..... The real issue is that visual thinking enables us to see the connections across and between the boundaries in thinking (and social structures) that those in power intend to hide. As Basil Bernstein argued, power is never more eloquent than in the boundaries between categories (1973). It is therefore holistic thinking which is at the heart of the issue, rather than visual or verbal thinking themselves...
Why Dyslexia is NOT a Reading Disability
Sir Rose agreed with me, in a meeting in 2010, that restricting the teaching of reading through systematic synthetic phonics is pointless with adults, because they already employ a wide range of other (and more holistic) strategies which cannot be eliminated. I remain puzzled why he did not also recognise that children do too.
How Science Can Become Unscientific, and Why the ‘Science of Reading’ is No Exception
. To understand how unscientific a methodology is, we need to expose the assumptions that lie beneath the science.
Proud Dyslexic, But Ashamed ADHDer? Chasing squirrels in neurodiversity.
In fact the more I write these things down, the more horrifying it feels!
Case Study 1
After using the overlays for one week, F improved from 75 wpm {slower than 98% of postgraduates) to 286 wpm (faster than 98% of postgraduates). It was also evident that with previewing and reviewing, her comprehension and recall was effective. After 2 weeks, she was reading at 400 wpm (faster than 99.9% of postgraduates) with excellent comprehension and recall. And after just one month, she is now reading at 670 wpm with excellent comprehension and recall.
Nothing About Us Without Us
Without real knowledge and understanding of the experiences of any vulnerable group, the ‘experts’ will continue to ask the wrong questions, arrive at the wrong answers, and seek to impose abusive ‘solutions’ to their self-defined ‘problems’.
The Impact of Visual Reading Through the Disabled Students Allowance (DSA).
“At the first appointment, I could not stop crying. As I told my peers about the experience, I cried some more. Having the feeling of comprehension is not something I can describe easily. The closest to it was a comment from a lady with 40 years of experience in mental health telling me that I reminded her of a child who can hear for the first time.” (47 year old psychotherapy student now reading at 430 wpm).