Sometimes it is hard for parents to tell the good information from the bad about dyslexia. Omega-3 fish oils is a particularly troublesome area. Many companies hype them as miracle cures for a range of problems. Newspapers run big stories on how they can change terrible children into bright, obedient angels and the next [...]
There are two problems about reading books when you are growing up with dyslexia. Firstly books aimed at your age group are too hard to read and the content of those aimed at younger children is too simple. Secondly the child heros of the books don’t appeal. Being dyslexic brings a unique set of challengers [...]
If you have dyslexia, how do you write your autobiography? Slowly, carefully and with a great deal of passion judging by the range of autobiographies of dyslexic people available from this selection of dyslexia books.
“This is a terrific book, a virtual roadmap for anyone interested in dyslexia, or learning disabilities in general. Weinstein is a [...]
How do you spot if your child has dyslexia? When does being a little behind in school change from being something they will grow out of and into serious educational problem? In a busy classroom, how can you spot those child with problems so that you can get them properly tested and diagnosed? Myomancy has [...]
Dyslexia is an education problem that can ruin lives and it effects 5% – 10% of the population. The internet is full of advice on how to get it diagnosed and ways of teaching dyslexics to read but there is very little on what causes it in the first place. Myomancy might have some answers:
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To many, dyslexia is a life long curse. Crippling their schooling and severely limiting their employment opportunities. But it doesn’t have to be like this. There are ways to really beat dyslexia and not just working around the problem. Dyslexics, adults or children, can learn to spell, read and write just like anyone else.
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How do you identify someone with dyslexia? To the outsider it might seem that a problem with reading, writing and spelling would be best detected by testing those skills. However dyslexia is a complex problem confounded by many different variables such as the age of the child and their intellectual level. Fortunately Myomancy has some [...]
Tintin the Icon
Its perhaps the fate of iconic characters to be used without license for political purposes. Tintin is no different and has been used in several anti-establishment works. His clean cut, boy scout image somehow gives these alternate works more punch as we see him swearing, drinking and raging against the establishment.
Breaking Free was [...]
The man behind Tintin
Herge, creator of Tintin, was born Georges Prosper Remi in 1907 in a suburb of Brussels in Belgium. As a boy he showed an early love of art, filling his school books with doodles. Despite this love of art, Herge never took any formal art lessons. In the 1920’s, Herge was studying [...]
The success of Tintin is due to how Herge created a real but magical world
When Herge started drawing Tintin, it simply himself and a blank piece of paper. He worked quickly to fill the page and meet the publication schedule of the newspaper he worked for. As her got older and Tintin more famous, his [...]