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Children Don’t Learn When They’re in Pain

By: Don M. Winn May 4, 2020May 8, 2020 childrens education, dyslexia, teachingadaptive teaching, author don winn, dyslexia, help for struggling readers, Lois Letchford, never give up, Reversed: A Memoir

This is the remarkable story of a mother and son who never gave up. Once in a while, I get to meet someone who is so inspiring, so tenacious, and so filled with hope that it takes my breath away. Lois Letchford and her son Nicholas are two such people. Theirs is a modern-day Hellen…

What Parents Can Learn from JFK to Turn Crises into Opportunities

By: Don M. Winn April 13, 2020 childrens education, learning differencedyslexia awareness, dyslexia education, homeschool, homeschool 2020, learning challenges, suddenly home schooling

In 1959, future president John F. Kennedy was speaking at a United Negro College Fund event and shared a bon mot that has value for our turbulent times. Kennedy said, “In the Chinese language, the word crisis is composed of two characters: one representing danger, and the other, opportunity.” Those words have been quoted in…

If You Change the Way You Look at Things, the Things You Look at Change

By: Don M. Winn February 4, 2020March 3, 2020 dyslexia, parenting, teachingchanging outlook, Don M. Winn, fear-based point of view, help for parenting dyslexic kids, language-based learning difficulties, positive outlook

Psychologist Wayne Dyer uttered the wise words above many years ago, and I love his point. This technique of being able to see a person or a situation with new eyes is so helpful to both struggling readers and their parents. How? When a child has dyslexia or otherwise struggles to read, write, listen, do…

Preliteracy includes valuable skills that prepare children to learn to read. In this photo, a mother reads aloud to her two young children. Don M. Winn's new book Raising a Child with Dyslexia: What Every Parent Needs to Know discusses vital tools every parent can use with every child to help them become readers.

What Is Preliteracy, and When Can Parents Begin to Build It?

By: Don M. Winn September 10, 2019 dyslexia, education, parentingDon M. Winn, dyslexia, helping kids read, learning in the womb, preliteracy, Raising a Child With Dyslexia What Every Parent Needs to Know, reading, special needs

Life is funny sometimes; when we start a conversation about a topic, it can be interesting to see what ideas the masses have embraced. Groupthink is a term that means that a group of well-intentioned people have decided that a matter or task should be handled a certain way, often because that’s the way it…

Helping Your Child Understand Dyslexia

By: Don M. Winn August 28, 2019 dyslexia, parentingADD, ADHD, coping with dyslexia, explaining dyslexia to kids, how to explain dyslexia to kids, kids, learning challenges, talking about dyslexia, teaching kids about dyslexia

There are times in every parent’s life when they need to help their child understand a difficult concept. It could be something like the reason for someone’s emotional outburst, the illness or loss of a pet, an upcoming move, or something more abstract. When a child is struggling with dyslexia or some other learning difficulty,…

Dyslexia: Before and After

By: Don M. Winn July 29, 2019August 11, 2019 childrens education, dyslexia, parentingbook, Don M. Winn, dyslexia museum exhibit, famous dyslexics, how to help dyslexic kids, Oklahoma City Science Museum, Raising a Child with Dyslexia, what is dyslexia

It’s nothing short of arresting to consider the fact that even though dyslexia was identified about 150 years ago, there’s still a lot of misunderstanding and outright prejudice about it, even among some highly trained educators. Indeed, countless dyslexia sufferers are discriminated against and repeatedly told that they’re not trying hard enough or that they’re…

Living with an Adult with Dyslexia

By: Don M. Winn September 19, 2017July 5, 2019 dyslexiadyslexia, help, marriage2 Comments

In my last blog, I talked about 5 hallmarks of being an adult with undiagnosed or misunderstood dyslexia. In my youth and well into adulthood, I knew I was dyslexic, but it was just a label, nothing more. I was ignorant about dyslexia and its many implications. When I met my wife and we got…

Dyslexia Articles

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Chapter Books

The Sir Kaye the Boy Knight series by Don M. Winn is an award-winning four-book series for middle readers about the adventures of a twelve-year-old knight.

Picture Books

Don M. Winn is the author of 12 picture books designed to help parents instill great literacy habits in their children. Click here to learn more!

The Science of Reading: Failing Students or Failing Schools?

By: Don M. Winn May 19, 2020

childrens education, parenting, teachingFailing Students or Failing Schools? A Parent's Guide to Reading Instruction and Intervention, Faith Borkowsky, High Five Literacy and Academic Coaching, reading education, reading intervention, success1 Comment

By Faith Borkowsky Studies show that nationwide, over 60% of children are not meeting grade-level proficiency in reading. School data from across the country reveal that most children placed in educational interventions do not significantly improve or function better as a result. There are a variety of reasons why school intervention failure rates are so…

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