Specific information on Heggerty’s plans to provide phonemic awareness through a digital platform.
Why Homeschool a Student with Dyslexia?
New Fact Sheet from IDA with thoughtful information including both challenges and benefits on homeschooling a child with dyslexia.
Parents guide to online school: 9 questions to help vet your back-to-school choices
Some Students Should Go to School, Most Should Stay Home
“Some may think this sounds impossible. Perhaps it is. But I’d argue it is no more unreasonable than anything else being proposed. The truth is, schooling as we knew it six months ago is over. We are being given the opportunity to re-envision education in a way that works for those we have historically failed. We should try to do so.”
Homeschooling with Dyslexia: Resources
How to Improve Distance Learning for Students With IEPs
Should you keep your student at home or send them to school? How to Decide for Fall 2020.
How To Ask for IEP Compensatory Services | ESY | COVID-19 crisis
Academic Supports for Students with Disabilities
“This brief is one in a series aimed at providing K-12 education decision makers and advocates with an evidence base to ground discussions about how to best serve students during and following the novel coronavirus pandemic. Click here to learn more about the EdResearch for Recovery Project and view the set of COVID-19 response-andrecovery topic areas and practitioner-generated questions.”
COPAA Releases New Recommendations on Students with Disabilities and School Reopenings
This fall, teachers will be on the front lines
“How do we safely pass out and collect papers? Can students work in groups? Educators need answers.”
Is dyslexia going ‘unnoticed’ in schools?
Article out of New Zealand which notes that “Dyslexia tutors from Learning Matters saw a surge in enquiries from parents who started noticing problems with their children’s literacy, once they began helping their children to learn from home.”
Takeaways from research on tutoring to address coronavirus learning loss
Interesting article about tutoring, although it doesn’t specifically address the needs of students with learning differences.
Reading wars hit home during lockdown lessons
A personal read about the “Reading Wars” from an Australian mother.
EXCERPT: And so it began. Perched at the dining table, armed with a 257-page guide on teaching a child to read, I was about to try to do just that. My daughter, Margot, had been at school for two months when the niggling concerns about her reading progress began.
