Here is a great site - very clearly laid out and packed with information and practical support: We are super proud to announce that our webpage is now live. We will be constantly updating and improving. eg many more short videos. Please share to the many families, educators, health professionals etc...

It's really great to learn about the launch of this site of Code Read Dyslexia - although it is Australia-based, it still has invaluable information that is relevant internationally so do visit this site and recommend it to others. The site is very clearly laid out and easy to navigate - well done t...

Alison has now written a post featuring Professor Kathy Rastle's presentation: https://www.spelfabet.com.au/2019/04/the-language-learning-and-literacy-conference-kathy-rastle/ Prof Rastle has published a paper which says a lot of what she said at the conference, so you might want to skip straight to...

Alison does a great job of summarising the main important features of Stanislas Dehaene's fantastic keynote address at the ' Language, Literacy and Learning Conference ' (2019): https://www.spelfabet.com.au/2019/04/the-language-literacy-and-learning-conference-stanislas-dehaene/ I’ve just been to a ...

This is an excellent summary of evidence by Dr Kerry Hempenstall - edited by Dr Jennifer Buckingham for ' The Centre for Independent Studies ': https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2016/07/rr11.pdf National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data: Creator: Hempenstall, Kerry, author. Titl...

There have been notable tensions regarding provision in the 'early years' in England for many years. There are many authoritative and influential early years advisors who have heavily influenced developments in this sector. Practitioners in this sector have been subjected to numerous official curric...

It looks like there may be more good news from DYT's researcher, Karen Wespieser, ascertained through a Twitter exchange (2nd April 2019). Karen reported that the Driver Youth Trust has a new 'position statement' and when I queried the position of CEO Chris Rossiter in light of his previous challeng...

Dr Jennifer Buckingham continues with her invaluable work to inform others based on international research findings. Whilst based in Australia, Jennifer's work is relevant world-wide as so many people continue to undermine the need for, and promotion of, systematic synthetic phonics provision as par...

Kyle Redford writes an article on fully appreciating that explicit phonics instruction should be for all learners - and not just for those who struggle to learn to read - in Education Week TEACHER : Explicit Phonics Instruction: It's Not Just for Students With Dyslexia https://www.edweek.org/tm/arti...

Karen Vaites describes developments in the spread of research-informed reading instruction in the USA (I was amazed to see even one of my 'tweets' contributing to Karen's post - but this shows what an international state of affairs the call for research-to-practice truly is!): https://eduvaites.org/...