Helping Your Child with Dyslexia

Activities to help improve concentration, listening and organisational skills.

Hello!

Delighted to meet you. We have put together a course full of activities that specifically target improving concentration and listening skills whilst at home. Please note that although our speciality is dyslexia, these activities are beneficial to all learners.

This course includes:

  • Whiteboard animation explanation of how to follow the lessons
  • Guide for parents
  • Memory words flashcards, activities and correlating worksheets

These modules are designed in a way that you can complete them more than once and it will still help focus your child so that the transition back to school will be easier.

Sarah & Sarah



Your Instructor


Sarah Mc Guire & Sarah Lumsden Watchorn
Sarah Mc Guire & Sarah Lumsden Watchorn

Our Story

Building Literacy, One Sound at a Time™

The Reading Academy began with a simple belief — every child deserves the opportunity to learn to read with confidence.

Founded by Sarah & Sarah, two dyslexia-specialist teachers; our story began in 2002 at a special reading school in Co Dublin, where we taught children with dyslexia. Through years of hands-on teaching, research, and testing countless reading programmes, we discovered what truly works — and what doesn’t.

We realised that children with dyslexia can learn to read, but they need to be taught differently. Existing programmes addressed parts of the challenge, never the whole. So, we built something that did.

Grounded in the Orton–Gillingham approach, The Reading Academy was established in 2015 to bring structured, multisensory reading instruction to children with dyslexia — and to train the teachers who support them.

Since then, we’ve empowered over 1,000 students and 100+ teachers through our reading programmes, professional training, and online learning community.

Today, The Reading Academy stands as a trusted leader in dyslexia-focused literacy education — equipping educators with evidence-based tools and helping families transform reading outcomes, one sound at a time.


Frequently Asked Questions


When does the course start and finish?
The course starts now and never ends! It is a completely self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
How long do I have access to the course?
How does lifetime access sound? After enrolling, you have unlimited access to this course for as long as you like - across any and all devices you own.
How long should I spend on each activity?
We recommend approximately 10 minutes per activity.
Do I complete a full lesson in one day?
A lesson does not need to be completed in one day. Complete the activities in a lesson at your child's own pace. The lessons are designed with you and your child in mind.

The course is designed in a way that you can complete it more than once and it will still help focus your child so that the transition back to school will be easier.


Sarah & Sarah

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