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Help! My Child Is Dyslexic! 3 Things That Could Make all the Difference

October 17, 2013 Robin Liner Related Articles, What Works

10 to 15 % of the US population has dyslexia, yet, only one in five will be diagnosed and receive treatment. If we as parents are paying attention we should recognize that our child is different than others. But when we do face this realization what [Read More]

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I am a Writer… Here’s Why: The 5 Reasons Why I Write

June 17, 2015 Robin Liner Related Articles

Are You a writer? Recently I have been thinking about why I write. It has caused me to take a trip down Memory Lane. The first time I ever read to a class of children was at the ripe old age of six. I had [Read More]

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How a Picture Book Helped a Child with Speech Impediments

June 5, 2015 CGR_admin Related Articles

A Perfect Little Girl, Right? 13 years ago I gave birth to my fifth child. A beautiful baby daughter, Meg, was placed in my arms. This was significant because I already had four children, but they were all boys. I must admit finally having a [Read More]

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Writer Stephen J. Cannell (1941-2010) Offers Advice to Parents about Dyslexia

February 11, 2014 Robin Liner Related Videos

I am one of those people who grew up watching the shows created by the great producer and writer Stephen J. Cannell. I can still see him sitting at a typewriter, pulling out the paper and tossing as it morphed into his famous logo. So [Read More]

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What Really Got My Dyslexic Son Reading!

February 8, 2014 Robin Liner Related Articles, What Works

“I first realized the power of funny reading as it pertains to reading fluency when my oldest dyslexic son was about eleven. We were at some friends and he spent a good deal of the time reading their copy of Calvin and Hobbs. I was [Read More]

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A Tale of Two Kids: A Trip Inside a Dyslexic Child’s Brain

October 31, 2013 Robin Liner Related Articles

Two kids in the same class participating in the same group lesson, yet two different outcomes in recall. How is it that one moment our child can remember everything you have ever taught him and the very next day he can’t recall any of it? [Read More]

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Can The Rhymes of Dr. Seuss Help Kids Read Better?

October 5, 2013 Robin Liner Related Articles, What Works

In 1937, Theodor Seuss Geisel published his first children’s book entitled And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street. Signature of Dr. Seuss (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Over the following decades, Dr. Seuss would produce 46 children’s books that have come to be loved [Read More]

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