The Open Door Blog
Welcome to our blog! Here is where you can read articles by our Open Door admin, tutors, and guest writers too. You’ll find tips and tricks, event and book reviews, inspirational stories, and the occasional exciting announcement too!
The Open Door Blog
Welcome to our blog! Here is where you can read articles by our Open Door admin, tutors, and guest writers too. You’ll find tips and tricks, event and book reviews, inspirational stories, and the occasional exciting announcement too!
Inspiring reading confidence in a reluctant reader
Identifying a child with reading difficulty early on, pinpointing the reason for the difficulty, and getting appropriate help are essential to sustaining the child’s confidence and instilling a sense of reading enjoyment. A child who is reluctant to read and left without a diagnosis and interventions will become resistant to reading altogether, saying things like “I hate reading” or “I can’t read” or “that’s too hard for me.”
read morePARENTING CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES
Dr. Maggie Mamen, Psychologist: A Series of 4 Workshops Understanding how a child’s learning profile with its various strengths and weaknesses affects life beyond school has important implications for parenting and family dynamics. This series of four workshops is...
read moreIs Reading to Your Child Important?
Do you have fond memories of reading cute little board books to your children when they were just little toddlers? For children who struggle with reading, sometimes books can become a negative thing. It represents really hard work, or failure, or even embarrassment...
read moreMothers are Awesome
Mothers are awesome, and I mean that in the original sense of the word. The Oxford dictionary defines the word “awesome” as “extremely impressive or daunting; inspiring awe”. One of the reasons I am so fortunate to work as a tutor for students with dyslexia, is...
read moreBook Review: Dyslexia: A Complete Guide for Parents and Those Who Help Them by Gavin Reid
A book review by Marion May Dyslexia: A Complete Guide for Parents and Those Who Help Them (Second Edition) By Gavin Reid ISBN (Paperback) 978-0-470-97373-8 ISBN (Hardcover) 978-0-470-97374-5 216 pages/267 pages including appendices and index Available at some public...
read moreLow literacy – A fight against statistics
Literacy Unlimited is a non-profit organization on the West Island of Montreal, which provides free, one-on-one English tutoring for adults to improve their reading, writing and basic math skills. Low literacy has far-reaching implications. It is highly correlated...
read moreGetting to Remediation: Diagnosing Dyslexia
Parents and teacher have an urgent need for low cost, rapid, accurate identification of reading problems in order to move on with remediation as soon as possible. Yet conventional wisdom has it that one cannot diagnose dyslexia, only identify those at risk for it....
read moreAccommodation, Modification, and Remediation…What?
These are three words that we often hear in education. Many parents wonder exactly what these terms mean, why each is important, and what's the difference between them? Accommodation: Accommodation is exactly how it sounds; to accommodate students refers to how a...
read moreTop 5 things I learned at the first Canadian dyslexia conference – and how you can make change
More than 200 parents, students, educators and advocates packed the Harbourfront Centre in Toronto to attend the first dyslexia conference in Canada. “Understanding dyslexia: A conference for parents, families and educators” was organized by the Ontario Branch of the...
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