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Six Letters, Not Twenty-Six: Where Reading Help for Dyslexia Starts
A specialist dyslexia teacher opens her free lesson series with six letters and a rule most parents have never heard. Say the sound, not the sound…
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476 articlesReading, spelling and the dyslexic brain: what the research says and what to do at home this week.
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Dyslexia Dropped Its IQ Rule in 2025. “Testing Too High” Should Have Retired With It.
A school refused a first grader's dyslexia evaluation because he was testing too high. The 2025 definition of dyslexia retired that idea. Parents hold more levers…
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Show Your Child What Employers Now Say About Minds Like Theirs
A trainer with 17 years inside the dyslexia world watched employers go from ticking a legal box to asking for more neurodivergent hires. Her father, an…
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Why Does a Reading Struggle Follow My Child Into Math?
Flashcards keep failing for a reason nobody names at the school meeting: math facts run on word retrieval. When reading is a fight, 7 times 8…
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How Do You Know Your Child’s Reading Program Is Working?
A weekly fluency score tells you in one number whether your child's reading help is working. Here is what to ask the school for, the growth…
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Four Advocates Explain Why a Child Makes It Through. Every Answer Was a Parent.
Four advocates describe what a holistic approach to a reading struggle actually looks like. Every one of them lands on the same variable, and it is…
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Look Beyond the Grades. A Bright Child Hides a Reading Struggle for Years.
Slow reading, dodged read-alouds, decent grades, and a child working twice as hard in secret. Stealth dyslexia hides in the bright kid who looks fine, and…
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Storytime Looks Like Reading the Words. For Your Child, It Was Never About the Words.
A bedtime story corrected by a six-year-old made one mother stop reading the words altogether. What she did instead points to something the reading science settled…
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Three Things Had to Change Before These Sisters Could Read a Word
Two sisters at the first percentile could not read three-letter words. The lever that moved them was not more drilling. It was calming a stressed brain,…
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The School Said Your Child Does Not Qualify. The Law Often Says Otherwise.
Most refusal letters lean on reasons that would not survive an appeal. Here is the one legal test they hope you never read, the win rate…
