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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
Sight words and Dyslexia: No more memorization of letters- there is a better way. Hear the data and the solution!
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Effective Strategies for Teaching Sight Words- with data!
In this episode of the Days With Dyslexia podcast, Michelle discusses the importance of teaching sight words by integrating sounds, letters, and meanings. The presentation, originally prepared for a state convention for speech-language pathologists, emphasizes that merely memorizing sight words is not effective for children with learning differences, particularly dyslexia. Instead, Michelle introduces a system that organizes words by sound patterns and teaches them in a way that engages all four language systems: speech, listening, reading, and writing. This method has been shown to significantly improve spelling accuracy and long-term word retention compared with traditional methods. The episode includes research findings and practical tips for implementing this approach for parents, speech-language pathologists, teachers, and reading interventionists.
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