Dyslexia is the most common reading disability affecting up to 1 in 5 people or 20% of the community (Yale Scientific). Dyslexia crosses racial, ethnic and socioeconomic lines. With a structured literacy approach that is explicit, sequential and multisensory every student with dyslexia 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 (National Assessment of Literacy)
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 Disabilities (LD) actually have dyslexia (Yale Center for Dyslexia)
Dyslexia is genetically inherited (International Dyslexia Association)
Students with learning disabilities including dyslexia have a three times higher risk of attempting suicide (Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2006)
Low reading scores and levels of intelligence for students with dyslexia have no correlation. In fact, the most innovative scientists, inventors and artists of our time have dyslexia (Yale Scientific). What are we doing to our potential geniuses?
The cost of reading failure (prime reason for school drop-outs) in New York State is: $ 3,088,573,000 (Education Consumers Foundation)
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We are a grassroots movement driven by families concerned with the limited access to educational interventions for students with dyslexia or at risk of dyslexia.
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.
We advocate for students who struggle to read, are not making progress, and are in crisis at their public school districts. We organize cost effective teacher training in science-based programs, and ensure students receive the services they need to learn how to read, and write to grade level. We hold school district workshops to ensure the science of reading language and writing is consistent and sustainable across the school district. We provide support, free screening tools, and educational workshops on dyslexia to empower parents, teachers, and students.
Our programs include educational workshops on the science of reading at correctional institutions. Reading and writing support and tutoring for incarcerated adults and youths.
Our mission is to educate administrators, parents and teachers on the science of reading to ensure that every child at risk of dyslexia (and in general education) learns how to read at their public school. We advocate for early intervention to stop learning differences from becoming life-long disabilities.
Dyslexia is a symptom of a broader misunderstanding about how to teach reading. In New York, 52% of 8th grade students who speak English as a first language struggle to read. Of those, half are functionally illiterate.
Advocate for individual students at their public school district
Highlight the benefits of early identification of students at risk of dyslexia
Introduce freely available screening tools
Highlight benefits of daily multi sensory structured literacy for general education
Organize parent support groups & recruit parent advocate volunteers
Parent advocacy training
Organize teacher training in multi-sensory programs and approaches
Organize school psychologist training to identify students at risk of dyslexia
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.