Protecting Every Child's Right to Learn How to Read 

OCTOBER IS DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH ▷ ▷ OCTOBER IS DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH ▷ ▷

Some of the topics at our October workshops:

​These are informal workshops that offer solutions to the main issues facing  dyslexic students in public schools. Bear in mind that untreated dyslexia is a symptom of a much larger misunderstanding about how children are taught reading skills.

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• Evaluations: dyslexia subtypes (which skills need strengthening?)
• IEP goals: how to get reading skills strengthened via goals
• Matching skill weaknesses to remediation that works
• The science of reading, what is known, whats the gold standard
• How to ensure your child's program is administered to fidelity (what this is)
• Emotional impact
• Special education law and how to use it
• Our Parent Advocacy Campaign Kick off!! Information on that!

What we do

Untreated dyslexia is a symptom of a much larger misunderstanding about how reading is taught.
We advocate for students, organize training, hold workshops and parent support groups. Our mission is to ensure every child with dyslexia learns how to read at their public school. Our programs and approaches will improve reading skill levels for entire school districts.

• Advocate for individual students at their public school district
• Work with schools to resolve problems and implement solutions 
• Organize parent support groups
• Parent advocacy training
• Organize teacher training in multi-sensory programs and approaches
• Organize school psychologist training to identify dyslexia 
• Multi-Sensory structured literacy summer reading camps
• School district Implementation & Impact Services
• Remediation programs for women in prison​​​

Find out more here

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Help children with dyslexia learn how to read.
​We advocate to improve reading skill levels for entire school districts.

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Advocacy Hotline coming soon..

Monday - Friday
10am - 3pm

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Results

Advocated Students

Only one school district refused to provide services to teach a child how to read

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Trained Teachers

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Psychologists Trained to Identify Dyslexia

The impact of untreated dyslexia

ill-Literacy

Mom & Son Story

Film Credit: Director Producer Stephen Polk
 School Stories

How Common is Dyslexia?

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Dyslexia is the most common reading disability affecting up to 1 in 5 people or 20% of the community (Yale et al, 2013).
Dyslexia crosses racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. With expert instruction and accommodations every dyslexic student can become a skilled reader, fully participate in their education and successfully achieve their potential.

• 3 out of 4 people on welfare cannot read (National Assessment of Adult Literacy) 
 
• 80% of youths brought before the courts have low reading skills (National Assessment of Adult Literacy)
• 70-85% of people in prison cannot read (NAAL) 

• 38-45% of people in prison have dyslexia (Moody, 2000)
• 89% of suicide notes left by youths when studied were found to have a disproportionate amount of dyslexia-type spelling mistakes (Learning disabilities and Adolescent Suicide, 1997) 

• 85% of children classified with Learning Disorders (LD) actually have dyslexia (Yale, 2000) 

• 80% of dyslexia is genetically inherited
• Students with learning disabilities including dyslexia have a three times higher risk of attempting suicide (Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006) 


Parents Support Groups

Parent support groups offer support and educational information on how to advocate for your child at their public school district. There are question and answer sessions and we will bring guest speakers to talk on a particular subject of interest.

Sign for support groups in your area here ​

Hard to Read
How American schools fail kids with dyslexia

There are proven ways to help people with dyslexia learn to read, and a federal law that's supposed to ensure schools provide kids with help. But across the country, public schools are denying children proper treatment and often failing to identify them with dyslexia in the first place.

(Listening pages coming soon) find article here

 Advocacy Parent Reviews

credit: International Dyslexia Association / Carolyn Cowen (info-images)

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