One day her daughter came home from school and said they’d been working on the Battle of Hastings. She went on to say that although they’d worked on this topic for weeks she couldn’t remember a single thing and they had an exam next week! That night Bambi Gardiner recreated the Battle of Hastings on her kitchen table. The next morning her daughter remembered most of it! Bambi realised that it's not enough for kids with dyslexia to rely on plain text to learn. So she found a lot of creative ways to help her child, like turning her notes into cartoon characters and creating colorful science flashcards that she can carry with her. All this helped her gain an A in her exam.
This was the birth of Oaka Books, an award-winning book company that publishes interactive books for children with dyslexia. This week, Darius sat down with the founder, Bambi Gardiner, and talked about how it all started, what it’s like being a parent of a child with dyslexia and what’s next for Oaka Books.
Links you might like:
The link to their website: https://www.oakabooks.co.uk/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/oakabooks
Twitter: Oaka Books (@OakaBooks) / https://twitter.com/OakaBooks
Instagram: Bambi Gardiner, Oaka Founder (@oakabooks1) • https://www.instagram.com/oakabooks1/
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BulletMap Academy Workshop: https://bulletmapacademy.com/story/
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Show notes: https://bulletmapacademy.com/94/
#66 Tip:Is reversing letters a sign of dyslexia? (Dyslexic Advantage Ch7 P 61-63)
#65 Tip:Becoming an Effective Contributor with Dyslexia
#64 Tip:Dyslexia and the importance of fast feedback when they learn.
#63 Tip:How prototyping ideas with children can help their dyslexia
#62 Tip:Feynman Technique: A technique we use to help children with dyslexia learn faster
#61 Tip:How to explain to a child how their brain works
#60 Tip:How working memory affects the five stumbling blocks of dyslexia
#59 Tip:The Origins of BulletMap Academy
#58 Tip:Darius' Dyslexia Assessment
#57 Tip:Thomas Edison: What lessons can we learn from his life?
#56 Tip:Biology, Dyslexia and Notes from audio
#55 Tip:Cooking and dyslexia: Creating innovative meals. Then forgetting the recipe?
#54 Tip:The real world implications of 3D thinking for dyslexia (Dyslexic Advantage Ch 6 p.53-56)
#53 Tip:How dyslexia can enhance 3D reasoning at the cost of 2D (Dyslexic Advantage Ch 6 p.51-53)
#52 Tip:Five Gears of Dyslexia: Reading, Writing, Remembering, Results and Organization
#51 Tip:Homeschoolers' advice to adjusting to remote schooling with dyslexia
#50 Tip:How the USA lockdown experience, remote schooling is affecting children with dyslexia
#49 Co-occurring visual problems that go along with dyslexia. Dr. Bhavin Shah
#48 The Potential impacts of eye-tracking technology - Lexplore Analytics part 2
#47 Eye-tracking technology detects reading difficulty - Lexplore Analytics Presentation part 1
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