CINDY HALL CONSULTING

Does dyslexia affect a child’s ability to read and perform music? This question was recently asked by a music education pre-service...

This month begins a short series featuring interviews with neurotypical siblings of dyslexic individuals. Quite a bit of time is spent...

Over the past two months, the writing focus has expanded from writing single sentences to writing a basic and an expanded paragraph....

What a difference punctuation makes. Every grandmother is thankful for the tiny comma in the following sentence, “Let’s eat, Grandma.”...

With a new school year, comes new weekly spelling words to learn. For mainstream learners, weekly spelling lists are an effective way to...

Last month’s writing focus was on writing single sentences. This month we move on to writing a paragraph. A paragraph planning...

Both parents and teachers work hard on many tasks at the beginning of each school year. A high-priority task for both sides of the...

For the child who struggles with expressing themself on paper, the barriers to filling the lines on a blank sheet of paper may feel...

With the new school year comes new opportunities to evaluate what went well last school year, and what areas could use some improvement....

I hope you devoured at least one of the books on the July reading list. Whether you picked up a copy of Miss Pell Never Misspells, went...

Completing any big task is exciting. The thrill of putting one’s entire effort into crossing a finish line and then stepping across it...

A complex diagnosis Dyslexia is a very individualized condition. The severity goes from mild to severe, and within those bands, there...

July seems to be a month made for reading. The first crazy weeks of summer break are past, and the household has settled into a summer...

Summer is a great time to think about what worked and what didn’t work last school year. Teachers, parents, and students can all take...

Summer is a great time for educators (and interested parents) to read a few deep-dive books on topics related to dyslexia. Here are a...

Ball Park Words It is surprising to children that special vocabulary exists just for baseball. You could introduce the word, “jargon,”...

Tye’s bright smile and winning ways make him a favorite with everyone he meets. Tye is the fourth of five siblings and had his mom’s...

The role of the classroom teacher looms large in the lives of the students who fill the desks of his or her classroom for the 180 school...

We live in a time where the art of cursive writing is frequently set aside with the disclaimer that it is too time consuming to teach....

In this month’s Student Story, you read about how getting tutoring from Mrs. K was a huge turning point for Luke. In the story, it is...