That’s when inspiration struck. I thought, “I’ll make these little logic puzzles, and I’ll sneak all the letters into the logic puzzles and see if she can identify the letters as being different – the D’s, B’s, P’s, Q’s – if they’re part of art.” I started drawing little robots with letters incorporated into their bodies, creating patterns for Anna to complete. To my amazement, when the letters were presented as art, she had no trouble identifying them. She wasn’t seeing them as reading material, but as symbols – as art!

The breakthrough was incredible! After about 100 of these little games, I had her doing patterns using just words with a box around them – D’s, B’s, P’s and Q’s – to see if she could now get the pattern right with the letters that she struggled with, and she was able to do it without hesitation! It was a eureka moment that made me reflect on my own childhood struggles with dyslexia.

Looking back, I realized that I had faced similar challenges. When all the other kids were reading and writing, and I could barely keep up. Even as I tried my hardest, my teachers told my parents that I was a stubborn and lazy child that was unwilling to focus on my work. This personal experience fueled my determination to help Anna and other children like her, who are genuinely struggling and deserve to be recognized as dedicated learners in spite of their dyslexia. I delved into researching dyslexia and read a variety of research about how the dyslexic brain processes information differently. Armed with this knowledge and our success with Anna, I knew I had to share our approach with other home-schooling parents.

So, I began to print up the games that I made for Anna and have my friends try it with their kids, and they had amazing success with with their struggling learners! My husband and I decided we needed to make this available to the entire home-schooling community. We took a three-week trip to Florida and I went to a coffee shop, and I created a Dyslexia Game series.

It’s an easy way to help your dyslexic child or children on the path to reading, and is based in the neuroscience of dyslexia. Overall, it was important to me that I build something that would help kids with dyslexia to not only learn to read, but also to be able to enjoy and feel gratified by the process

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