#DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH comes to an end! Some kids need to take the ‘long road’…Some of my best friends (and former students!) have dyslexia and I appreciate them all the more for it! Part 2
“I learned to be my own advocate.”
“Just like switching gears on a bicycle eases the ability to ride a bike up a hill, switching gears in to ‘school mode eases the ability of children to adjust to the new school year.”
“Time is our most precious resource.”
“Encourage your children/students to work at a pace that is ‘just right’.”
I spent some time today chatting with a lovely woman who is the parent of a high school student with dyslexia. She is bound and determined to help as many children as she can to improve their reading outcomes moving forward. She tutors, but wants to be even better at it and teach others to …
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Be the parent (or teacher!) who forges ahead, saying, “I think I can, I think I can…”
COMPARTMENTALIZATION…WHAT IS IT? When I was a classroom teacher, then a tutor, then a parent of even school aged children (by 3rd grade or so), then a reading coach/mentor to 100s of teachers who had 100s of students, and now a grandparent, I taught them all one very long word–and even the kids could say …