Dyslexia Awareness Month offers schools opportunity to reflect on quality of services #dyslexia
If you were to step into a classroom, you would find that there are students in every classroom that don’t like to read. But, what if that wasn’t the case at all? A lot of time students don’t like to do something that they either find difficult or that they don’t know how to do. This is increasing true for students that are diagnosed with Dyslexia.
Dyslexia Awareness Month brings awareness to those with dyslexia.
October, National Dyslexia Awareness Month, is a good time to think about how best to serve dyslexic students. For Green, it’s part of his daily routine.
"Key Takeaways:
There are kids in every elementary classroom who don’t like to read. Yet, what if it isn’t that they don’t like to read but rather the obstacle of reading, dyslexia.
According to the Dyslexia Center of Utah, as many as 80% of people with poor reading skills are dyslexic. The same portions of people of different genders, ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds have dyslexia, the most common language-based learning disability.
And dyslexia isn’t just about reading. When students struggle to read because of a disability, there are consequences that follow.
