Tv – the enemy of child development? Apparently, yes…

Did you know that 30 percent of US households have televisions on all the time? In a piece entitled TV Causes Learning Lag in Infants – Yahoo! News Jeanna Bryner writes:
Infants “zone out” in front of the television, and it turns out this translates into less time interacting with parents, and possible lags in language [...]

Butterworth – an FAQ on Dyscalculia

In the story below, Professor Brian Butterworth is quoted (from the Indpendent) on the differences betweenDyslexia and Dyscalculia. It seems, from this link, however, that the story may not have had space to explain Butterworth properly. Here’s his own Frequently Asked Question:
How do I recognise a child who has dyscalculia? What are the symptoms [...]

Manual Games? or Games Manual? Either way, it costs £29.10!

It’s nice to see “word blindness” in the pages of someone who sells helpful products! – it makes you feel they know what the problems are like. And so, without having in any way assessed Dyslexia Manual Games we report on something which could, actually, be the Dyslexia Games Manual!Teaching Expertise sells it, and wrote [...]

Can we manage without Literacy?

There’s a thoughtful comment in the Economist by (as usual) an anonymous correspondent seriously suggesting that:
Teachers must recognise that our pedagogical tools are inconsistent with the skills needed to survive in a world where people are always connected to everyone and everything. In such a world, learning to think for oneself could well be more [...]