Very thoughtful article which parents are sure to love!
“Dyslexia is ….. ONE part of my child. It’s also a part we embrace, and we hope that in time the world will learn to embrace all of our neuro-diverse brains as well.”
Park City's Resource For Children with Dyslexia
General, Parents · March 8, 2017 · Link to original article
Very thoughtful article which parents are sure to love!
“Dyslexia is ….. ONE part of my child. It’s also a part we embrace, and we hope that in time the world will learn to embrace all of our neuro-diverse brains as well.”
General, Parents · July 5, 2016 · Link to original article
This article provides a very good overview about foreign languages and dyslexia, as well as specific suggestions to make learning a foreign language successful.
“How successful they are depends on the individual student, the approach taken, and to some degree, the language students choose to learn.”
ADHD, General · Link to original article
Good article on ADHD, Dyslexia and Self-Esteem.
EXCERPT: ADHD symptoms are usually apparent from the first day of school, whereas dyslexia is often not fully recognized until fourth or fifth grade, when the shift is made from learning to read to reading to learn. Parents who express concern early on are often told by teachers that “every student reads differently and they will catch up.”
EXCERPT: Parents sometimes fear the label of “dyslexia” for their child. They do not want their child to feel different, but dyslexic kids do feel different, because they are. It is our responsibility to see that the difference is not equated with inferiority. Studies show that when children are diagnosed as having “dyslexia” — versus vague labels like “specific learning disability”— their self-esteem is positively affected.
General, Parents, Teachers · June 30, 2016 · Link to original article
Have you heard of the “Reading Wars?” When advocating for struggling readers, it’s important to understand the history of teacher training & reading instruction.
EXCERPT: If we peel back the skin of the reading onion, we can understand why. For fifty plus years the education profession has been embroiled in a fundamental debate regarding the teaching of reading. We call this debate the “Reading Wars.” It pitted the teaching of reading using whole language versus the teaching of reading through systematic and explicit phonics instruction, which decades of reading research supports (e.g., Adams, 1990; Berninger & Amtmann, 2003; Liberman, 1973; Moats, 2006; National Reading Panel, 2006).
General · April 1, 2017 · Link to original article
Dyslexia: Disability or Difference? Another excellent article by Kyle Redford! Sharing a few excerpts, but it’s worthwhile to read the entire piece.
“Additionally, as long as students with dyslexia have to fight for specialized reading instruction or access to assistive technology like audiobooks in classrooms, we cannot afford to move away from the disability classification. By definition, students with developmental dyslexia struggle to learn to read in spite of adequate instruction and otherwise high intelligence. In other words, their difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and spelling are “unexpected” given the student’s broader intellectual profile and environmental background.”
“Depending on the school’s reading program, dyslexics often need alternative remediation to learn to read. And the same things that make reading hard also make spelling and writing especially challenging. Most important, these challenges are not something students outgrow. Although developmental dyslexia’s impact on students usually morphs over time, it never goes away.”
General, Parents · March 28, 2017 · Link to original article
“Nothing makes me prouder than hearing my children speak up for their needs. They understand the impact of dyslexia on their schoolwork and assignments. … They have the courage to change an environment that may work just fine for other kids, but that needs to be tweaked for them. That’s real bravery.”
General, Videos · February 24, 2017 · Link to original article
What is dyslexia? Watch as reading expert Margie Gillis explains what dyslexia is, including signs and symptoms of dyslexia. Hear her talk about why reading is difficult for children with dyslexia, and how to help.
General · Link to original article
“I get the most heartbreaking emails from adults who are still ashamed of their spelling.” – Susan Barton
On this page, she shares some of those emails.
General, Parents · November 3, 2016 · Link to original article
Too often, parents hear, “We don’t evaluate until 3rd grade.” Here’s another article on the importance of early intervention.
EXCERPT: What often happens to dyslexic students in the 3rd grade is that they’re unable to make the leap between simple reading of single syllable phonics words to new lower frequency multiple syllabic words that that infuse 3rd and 4th grade texts. The problem can be invisible to all but to the children themselves because they make educated guesses and clues from teacher instructions and friends’ help so that it looks as if reading comprehension is fine…but it’s not. At home, children may appear to beautifully read aloud favorite stories, but if you were to point to certain words at random on the page, it becomes clear that they aren’t reading but rather repeating back memorized books that they had heard before.
General · November 30, 2016 · Link to original article
A longer, but wonderful article to read. A few key takeaways:
“I’m about education. I look at kids. If we had the right kind of reading instruction in school, a lot of kids would never be identified as dyslexic because we adjust, we know what to do. These reading models are out there. School districts need to wake up, and parents need to wake up because school districts will respond to parents.”
“It’s emotional IQ of a child that indicates success. And we don’t even teach that. We don’t even realize that the IQ score really means nothing. It’s all the subtests beyond the IQ because a kid who’s dyslexic may have 109 IQ, but he has 140 visual processing and an 82 processing speed and winds up with 109; that doesn’t tell us anything.”
General, Videos · December 3, 2016 · Link to original article
Part 4 of NPR’s series, “Unlocking Dyslexia.”
Very proud of the Park City School District for supporting a Dyslexia Initiative which includes providing Dyslexia Awareness Training for elementary school staff!
General, Parents · November 29, 2016 · Link to original article
Third installment of NPR’s series on dyslexia this week.
“We invest in the child that we have now. You know, college won’t be an option if they continue to hate school and reject everything that has to do with reading.”
General, Videos · November 29, 2016 · Link to original article
Excellent series by NPR about dyslexia! Today’s audio installment on “How Science is Rewiring the Dyslexic Brain.” Take a few minutes and listen!
General, Videos · November 28, 2016 · Link to original article
Part 1 from a NPR Series, “Unlocking Dyslexia.”
EXCERPT: Since dyslexia is not something you outgrow, I have learned to work with it, and work around it. It’s always there, but it is rarely the focus of my thoughts. That was true through college and graduate school, but when I became an education reporter, it changed.
As I returned to elementary school classrooms and interviewed parents and teachers, dyslexia kept popping up in places I didn’t expect. I saw teachers who were mystified by their students’ struggles and parents whose stamina and empathy were tested.
Dyslexia is so widespread that it forces schools and parents to take action. And yet, it is deeply misunderstood. Even basic questions don’t have easy answers.
General, Parents, Teachers · October 26, 2016 · Link to original article
PC READS is proud to have started our youth mentoring group, MIND. Read this article by Kyle Redford to better understand the importance of students being able to meet and ask advice from one another. Our next MIND event is in December – check our website for more information.
EXCERPT: Reflecting on the panel later in the day, a student who had recently been diagnosed with dyslexia announced to his classmates, “I am very grateful for the 8th graders who shared. I had planned to keep my dyslexia secret all year.”
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