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Mr. Rogers shows his skill at interpreting behavioral issues in children as he knewwls down to talk to a troubled child in a scene from the movie A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood.

Things Aren’t Always What They Seem

By: Don M. Winn June 2, 2020June 23, 2020 childrens education, parenting, teachingA Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, behavioral issues, cause, dyslexia, hidden, movie, Mr. Rogers, understanding

My wife and I recently watched A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, starring Tom Hanks as Fred Rogers. We found the movie incredibly inspiring and therapeutic. It’s not a movie about how the television show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood was shot. It’s the story of how a jaded, emotionally wounded author changed his life after he…

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…

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

Click here to read some of my archived blogs and other published articles on dyslexia.

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!

A mother and father sit on the floor, sharing a story from an old book with their baby daughter.

Raising Readers from Birth: An Interview with Kim Jocelyn Dickson

By: Don M. Winn July 28, 2020

childrens education, parentingdangers of screen time and its effect on reading, kim jocelyn dickson, preliteracy, reading tools, teaching children to read, the invisible toolbox book, why read to kids, why should i read to my kidsLeave a Comment

Some of my fondest childhood memories involve staying at my grandmother’s house and sitting her lap while she read to me. This was a rare occurrence in my life—I didn’t get to visit my grandmother very often, and my parents didn’t read to me. Looking back, I wonder how my life would have been different…

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