Oh dear, I've just been sent this link How to create a Dyslexia Friendly Classroom http://blog.specialdirect.com/2014/05/23/how-to-create-a-dyslexia-friendly-classroom/ Count the number of pointless strategies including: learning styles alphabet arcs key sight-word cards drinking water! coloured pap...

Behavioural Interventions to Remediate Learning Disorders: A Technical Report The following interventions are covered in this recent report from New Zealand. Arrowsmith Programme Brain Gym Cellfield Cogmed Working Memory Training Coloured Overlays and Lenses (including those from Irlen and The Inst...

Mike Lloyd-Jones has written a new blog post. It's horribly accurate in its description of what passes for phonics teaching in the majority of schools in England today. Phonics and the Art of Bonsai: How children are short-changed by watered-down phonics http://www.phonicsblog.co.uk/#/blog/456577075...

Renowned educational bloggers, Greg Ashman and 'Horatio Speaks', have also recently written about the Reading Recovery research: Is Reading Recovery like Stone Soup? https://gregashman.wordpress.com/2015/05/22/is-reading-recovery-like-stone-soup/ Researchers from the Universities of Delaware and Pen...

I was alerted to this* 2014 Reading Recovery (RR) study by a tweet from Prof. Dan Willingham V. positive effects (d = .69) of Reading Recovery: 1st results from huge trial *Year One Results from the Multisite Randomized Evaluation of the i3 Scale-Up of Reading Recovery American Educational Research ...