01st Jul 2018

FLAiR – Instilling a pre-disposition towards Reading

Besides making Samuel a reader for the past 8 years, I had spent the past two years working as a Pro-FLAiR (Focused Language Assistance in Reading), under AECES (Association for...

22nd May 2015

The 8 things I learnt about teaching a child to read, write and do maths

I have been teaching Samuel to read/spell/write/do maths for more than 5 years. These are some things which I have learnt and found useful – tried and tested! 1. The...

20th Aug 2013

Dyslexia – Cognitive weaknesses for a Dyslexic Child

Samuel learnt to talk very late. Even at age two, he was still speaking in single words, and tends to call me “papa” instead of “ma ma”. I stopped work...

25th Jul 2013

Different learning differences

Last Sunday another forum writer responded to the article written by Ms Sandra Davie. His letter “Hot-housing pre-schoolers has its limits” took a different angle from what I wrote here. I...