Dyslexia Advocacy Action Group

Advocating to ensure every child learns how to read

   What we do

• Advocate for individual students at their public school district
• Organize parent support groups
• Parent advocacy training
• Organize teacher training in multi-sensory programs and approaches
• Organize school psychologist training
• Multi-Sensory Summer Reading Camps
• Whole School Literacy Impact Programs
• Remediation programs for women in prison​

Find out more here

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Help more children with dyslexia learn how to read.
​Improve reading for whole school districts.

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Advocacy Hotline coming soon..

Monday - Friday
10am - 3pm

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

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 ​

Find out how YOUR school district is doing:
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Education Consumers Foundation

The impact of untreated dyslexia

ill-Literacy

Mom & Son Story

Film Credit: Stephen Polk School Stories

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

Why Are We Still Teaching Reading the Wrong Way? 

by Emily Hanford, New York Times, October 26th 2018

Proven science-based approaches to reading are not taught at most schools. The phenomena is known as "reading wars" (the book industry V's science).                           

 Find out about that here..

Hard Words
Why aren't kids being taught to read?

Scientific research has shown how children learn to read and how they should be taught. But many educators don't know the science and, in some cases, actively resist it. As a result, millions of kids are being set up to fail.

by Emily Hanford

​                                                              Listen to the article here

Parent Reviews of Our Advocacy Services

Make a World of Difference: Advocate for a Child

​Present at Your School Board of Education Committee Meeting!
Download the presentation packet

Contact Us to Bring a Presentation to Your School District Administrators​

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

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