Statement of Purpose:

Advocate to ensure students with dyslexia, LD students and students at risk of dyslexia learn how to read; this will help prevent poverty, incarceration, poor health, vulnerability to addiction, suicide and environmental degradation.  Advocate to increase literacy levels for students with dyslexia/at risk of dyslexia and general education students by facilitating robust scientific evidence-based multi-sensory programs and approaches at public schools, colleges, private schools, prisons and drug rehabs.

We are a grass roots movement driven by families concerned with the limited access to educational interventions for dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities within our public schools. We aim to raise dyslexia awareness, empower families and teachers to support students and inform policy-makers on best practices to identify, remediate students with dyslexia or LD  in NY public schools.

​Our Basic Goals:

• Connect parents on Long Island who are concerned with the limited dyslexia services in public schools. 
• Partner with parent advocacy and education resources to help parents obtain appropriate services for their children at school.
• Educate parents on processes at state and federal level to improve literacy standards (training and programs) at schools for all children.
• Provide information and resources to enable parents to work with schools to identify, educate and support children at risk of dyslexia.

Our long Term Goals:

• Organize/provide cost effective training for educational psychologists including implementation procedures/practices that identify students with dyslexia or at risk of dyslexia before second grade.

 

• Organize/provide cost effective training/implementation procedures/practices including mentoring for teachers/special education teachers so they may administer scientific evidence-based multi-sensory structured literacy approaches/programs to fidelity for students with dyslexia or at risk of dyslexia.

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• Organize/provide cost effective scientific evidence-based reading/spelling programs/approaches to low-income and under-served areas of New York.

 

• Inform and educate parents, teachers, educational psychologists, administrators and students about how untreated dyslexia can result in symptoms such as anxiety, lack of ability to focus, low self-esteem and behavior issues.

 

• Provide resources/training in structured literacy approaches/programs and mentoring for general education school teachers to improve literacy standards at public schools for all students.

 

• Provide resources for students with dyslexia applying for college.

 

• Advocate/organize/provide educational evaluations and structured literacy programs/approaches including mentoring for people in prison/drug and alcohol rehabs with dyslexia and at risk of dyslexia.

 

• Advocate for special education service transparency that involves public disclosure of teachers trained in scientific evidence-based multi-sensory structured literacy programs/approaches including the level of certification at public schools.

 

• Provide/organize environmental nature conservation projects and outdoor fitness/group-building activities to bring students with dyslexia together so they may identify with their peers and increase self-esteem.

 
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