August 8, 2016
What is Project Maths?

Project Maths Cannot Hurt You

Project Maths cannot hurt you and being good at maths is not about how many maths questions you get right – it’s about what you do […]
July 11, 2016
Does my child have a learning difficulty?

Could Your Child have a Learning Disability?

Okay, I have to confess – I hate the phrase Learning Disability. I feel that it focuses mainly on the negative.  I prefer to say Learning […]
July 4, 2016
What is Dysgraphia, help for Dysgraphia

My Child’s handwriting is awful, could it be Dysgraphia?

Dysgraphia. What is it? Unlike Dyslexia and Dyspraxia, dysgraphia is not a word we hear a lot about, but increasingly I am seeing it being included […]
June 2, 2016
Change your State with the word 'Yet'

How to Use The Most Powerful Word in the Universe: ‘YET’

Yet.  I haven’t met a more powerful word – yet! I really believe that it is the most powerful word in the universe. It has the […]
March 3, 2016

How to Correct a Pencil / Pen grip and why it is so important

A few weeks ago, my cousin Trish was visiting from Dublin. Trish is a Montessori teacher and as you can imagine, it didn’t take long for […]
February 25, 2016

How to deal with Sight (Dolch) Words when Learning to Read

In 1948, Edward William Dolch PhD, of the University of Illinois, in his book ‘Problems in Reading’ identified a list of words that he believed to […]