The "Read On. Get On." campaign to improve literacy in the UK, launched this week by Save The Children, is broadly welcomed by Dig-iT.

However, in response to our tweet during a BBC Radio 5 Live broadcast (shown below) that the campaign has overlooked the impact of dyslexia, book industry magazine The Bookseller approached us and other dyslexia organisations to comment further.

Read the article containing our feedback here (paragraphs 6 & 7).

If you would like to read our full response, please get in touch and we will send it to you.

Special Needs Jungle is a really great website run by Tania Tirraoro who is a parent who has been through the "jungle of the statementing system" and so wants to share that knowledge with others.

The website is well worth a visit - see here.

Here's some great videos showing top tips on supporting your child with reading, handwriting, spelling, organisation and memory.

See here.

Quick apology to all visitors to our website who may have experienced random pop-up websites appearing while reading our website.

We noticed some odd unwanted websites popping up while reading our pages and so contacted Weebly support (the people who we use to provide our website).

They got back to us and advised us to remove our recently added website statistics tracker. At the end of November, we added this so that we could see how many visitors we get, where they come from and how many things they read (you may have noticed a little green 'Webstats' picture under the Weebly button at the foot of our webpages).

Anyway, while we were getting some interesting information from this, the downside was that this also allowed unwanted advert-type pop-up websites to appear. So we have now removed the webstats and will simply use Weebly's own figures instead (though these aren't very detailed).

For those of you that are interested, during the two months that we were using webstats, we found that while most of our visitors come from the UK as you'd expect (89.1% actually) we also got visitors from as far afield as Canada (4.6%) and USA (3.1%), New Zealand (0.7%), Turkey (0.4%), Uruguay, Vietnam and Saudi Arabia (all at 0.2%). The remaining 1.5% of visitors came from europe.

So, clearly - as we all know - dyslexia has no borders and can affect anybody.

We're pleased to announce that we've just added a brand new page to our website called "Our Friends". It contains links to other groups and organisations that we've connected with. We hope to support each other.
Here's the page...

We've just added a new listing to our websites and contacts page. They're called 'Nasen' and promote the education, training, advancement and development of all those with special and additional support needs.
Here's their response to the recent SEN green paper.

Interesting article on something called toolbelt theory for all you teachers and educationalists out there. Basically says that when considering students' needs, simply falling back on a one size fits all approach to technology (eg. use of iPads, laptops and do on), doesn't really work. Here's the article.

Comedian Marcus Brigstocke revealed recently on a Radio 5 Live interview that is is dyslexic and that he thinks that this helps him with his comedy.
See the BBC Ouch! article for more info.