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Tag Archives: Empowering Learning
Flipping Dyslexia 101: Missing skill of picturing words
Have your children struggled with literacy over the last year of interrupted education? They may have missed out on the simple skill to picture words; a vital skill for fluent reading and writing. In 23 years of teaching students (adults … Continue reading
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Tagged dyslexia, Dyslexiaassociationoflondon, Empowering Learning, flippingdyslexia, visualkids
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How is home schooling going?
Due to Covid-19 millions of parents have been attempting home schooling, without any preparation or training. Of course, they have been having a whole range of experiences from very good to deeply distressing for a number of reasons. I have … Continue reading
My child’s school report is scary
“My child’s school report is frankly scary. I know he is bright, creative and imaginative but his report card says he is disinterested, unfocused, disruptive and dropping way behind his peers in literacy. His reading seems to be getting a bit better, … Continue reading
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Empowering Learning in offender rehabilitation
A few years ago, Olive Hickmott was approached by David Apparicio and Jackie Hewitt-Main separately, two entrepreneurs, whom had a passion for working with offenders in custody to give them a second chance in life. This is a brief review … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD, Autism, cascade foundation, chrysalis, David Apparicio, dyslexia, Empowering Learning, Jackie Hewitt-Main, mental illness, offender, rehabilitation
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1st Empowering Learning Conference 24th September in Central London
Do come and join us at the 1st Empowering Learning Conference 24th September in Central London, for Practitioners We are really excited to announce this conference, called Igniting the Energy of Collaboration. It is 10 years since the Empowering Learning … Continue reading
Would you like a 95.15% success rate to change Dyslexia?
Recently we have been surveying Empowering Learning Practitioners to ask their success rate, when working with students. It is now well accepted that: recognising words on the page is a skill of fluent readers being able to access a mental … Continue reading
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Tagged concentration, dyslexia, Empowering Learning, numeracy, reading, spelling
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Cambridge NLP practice group event: Empowering Learning
Recently I talked at the Cambridge NLP Practice group about Empowering Learning. This is what John Kendall, their chairman said: ” We invited Olive Hickmott to talk to our practise group on how NLP knowledge aids learning. Instead she gave … Continue reading
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Discover how to help your children with literacy and numeracy, for FREE: Primrose Hill, London, 28th Oct
Would you like to know more about how children learn and how you can help them improve literacy and numeracy. There is a great opportunity at learn more at a free workshop in Primrose Hill Community Library, London, Tuesday 28th … Continue reading
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Tagged Empowering Learning, literacy, London, maths, primrose hill, reading, spelling
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Dyslexia Awareness Week 3rd-8th Nov 2014
For Dyslexia Awareness Week, we are helping families and schools discover how bright children, who have great mental images, use them to improve literacy and numeracy in minutes, all for free. This has a really positive effect on those diagnosed with Dyslexia. … Continue reading
Half of Children Leave reception unready for school
Sarah Boseley, reports for the Guardian today this terrifying statistic that comes from Sir Michael Marmot’s The Institute of Health Equity. There is one vital measure that hasn’t been included in the assessment of the literacy and numeracy of 5 … Continue reading
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