Thank you Nessy, for asking me to share my personal experience with working with dyslexic children. I get asked a lot about how I got started. Back in 2003, I was teaching a third grade inclusion classroom in a new school district. New staff to the district were sent to a Project Read Phonology training …
Hairy Letters is the perfect first app for 4-6 year olds. Learn the letters of the alphabet and how to blend first words. Interact with animations and trace the letter shape onscreen with your finger.
We know that most children learn to read at different rates – but they all seem to reach a point where they are frustrated with their own readings skills. They want to be able to read – but they haven’t yet developed the skills to do it fluently. Both my homeschooled children went through …
Starting 6th March for four consecutive weeks, Nessy will be offering a massive reduction on one of our apps! Available on the App Store and Android, prices will be plummeting from £2.99 to 99p, watch this space for our first App reveal! App Price Reduction Dates: Week One: 6th – 12th March Week …
One of the most prominent symptoms of dyslexia is low phonological awareness. This means people with dyslexia often have difficulty identifying and manipulating syllables or letter sounds.
For children, identifying the components of a multisyllabic word can be challenging and it’s important they understand the essential building blocks of our language in order to learn to spell, and form words and sentences.
In 2014 Nessy met with Nokkie Hartman* of the Vergezicht school in South Africa and a partnership between the school and Nessy was born. Vergezeicht became the pilot school for Nessy in South Africa, using our programs as an ESL tool – with great results. The school held a Dyslexia Information Day to raise awareness …
For January only we’re offering 30 FREE Writing Beach licences when you purchase the Nessy Premium Pack! This offer is exclusive for schools and with the added addition of the 30 FREE Writing Beach products you’ll receive £400 worth of materials absolutely free! The Nessy Premium Package – £1,210 30 licences of Dyslexia …
For January only we’re offering 50% off all our boxed games! Nessy boxed games help make learning fun. Play card and board games and learn: Phonic Sounds Initial Consonants End Consonants Vowel R Magic E CVC Words See our full range here! Once they’re gone, they’re gone so don’t delay!
Do you know about the iPad accessibility features that can be invaluable to people with dyslexia, like typing what you speak or reading text for you? Using the iPad speech to text will save you loads of time. You won’t have to type out each word and it’s much easier to search the web, …
iPads have some great accessibility functions that can be invaluable to people with dyslexia or other reading disabilities. Using the text to speech feature your iPad will read aloud for you making websites, documents or books instantly accessible. The voice is a bit robotic but not as terrifying as the Kindle! Let’s give it …
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