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Dyslexia Help for Kids: Reading, Spelling & Handwriting — Boost Your Child's Skills & Confidence with Days with Dyslexia
The Days with Dyslexia podcast helps parents support kids with dyslexia, reading struggles, spelling challenges, and handwriting difficulties.
I’m Michelle Morgan, a mom and speech-language pathologist, and each episode shares practical, research-based tips parents can use at home and in school.
You’ll learn how to help your child improve reading, spelling, and writing skills, boost confidence, and succeed at school. We also cover advocacy strategies, ADHD, executive function, learning differences, and tools to make learning easier for kids with dyslexia.
Whether your child has dyslexia, struggles with reading or writing, or you just want guidance to help them thrive, this podcast gives clear, actionable tips, hope, and support for parents every week.
Dyslexia Help for Kids: Reading, Spelling & Handwriting — Boost Your Child's Skills & Confidence with Days with Dyslexia
Latest Episodes
Dyslexia Advocacy for Parents, Part 1: Gathering Data and Documenting Concerns
Dyslexia Advocacy for Parents, Part 1: Gathering Data and Documenting ConcernsThe episode launches a new advocacy-focused mini series focused what parents can do when schools say a child’s reading and spelling are “fine" even when a pare...
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Choosing the Right Dyslexia Intervention, Part 5: How sight words are taught
In part five of a series on choosing dyslexia interventions, Michelle reviews differences between meaning-first (to avoid), letters-first programs (e.g., Orton-Gillingham, Barton, Wilson), and sounds-first instruction, then focuses on tea...
Choosing the Right Dyslexia Intervention, Part 4: What your child should say while writing words
In part four of a series on choosing effective dyslexia interventions, Michelle reviews three approaches (meaning-first/whole literacy, which they advise avoiding, and two structured literacy approaches: letters-first/Orton-Gillingham “print to...
Choosing the Right Dyslexia Intervention (Part 3): The job of letters in sounds-first vs. letters first approach
Part three of a series on choosing effective dyslexia interventions compares “letters first” (print-to-speech, often Orton-Gillingham) and “sounds first” (speech-to-print/linguistic phonetics) approaches, focusing on the job of letters. The spe...
Choosing Dyslexia Interventions, Part 2: Teaching Syllables—Letters-First vs Sounds-First
In part two of a five-part Days With Dyslexia series on choosing the right dyslexia intervention, the host explains why syllable instruction matters and contrasts letters-first versus sounds-first structured literacy approaches. A syllable is d...