Addressing Dyslexia in Missouri Public Schools

I have been an elementary school teacher for 15 years. I graduated Summa Cum Laude with both my undergraduate and graduate degree. However, I was not prepared to identify at-risk students or develop appropriate interventions. Even now everything I've learned has been through my own research. We are still extremely fixated on high stake testing and as a result that is where most district allocate PD time and money. Teacher preparation, QUALITY training, and support must become a priority at both state and local levels.

We NEED this!!!!

EVERY child deserves appropriate reading interventions!

Every child deserves the opportunity to learn to read and districts must stop wasting valuable time by delaying diagnosis and intervention that is research based for children with dyslexia.

As a speech-language pathologist for over 35 years and a clinical professor at MSU, I passionately support explicit, science based methods of reading instruction and all five points on this petition.

My niece who is in middle school and has justrecenly been diagnosed with dyslexia. This could have been diagnosed sooner if our schools recognize it as a learning disability and provide support at an early age.

Just found out my 6th grader has dyslexia and it makes me sad how many years we have missed to getting the proper help my child needed because schools don't recognize dyslexia. Wounder how many children and adults have it and not knowing it. Kids are our future and we need them to be working at their fullest potential instead of failing them.

I support equipping those with dyslexia through dignified means and financial expenditure so that they may best be equipped to learn skills and information that invest in their personal and community contributions.

An important issue to help these intelligent group of individuals .

I fully support additional help for struggling students

We must do everything possible to help children with dyslexia. We cannot let this condition hender any child from having a bright future gist because we do nothing to help them.

So many kids have this and struggle all through their lives because they don't know they have this.

This is so important!

Signed!

We have a dyslexic child and two dyslexic adults in our household.

Looking forward to MO DESE supporting students at-risk for dyslexia in the regular classroom! Thank you in advance!

It is my hope that Missouri teachers will be adequately trained and not just enough to gain compliance with the law. Our kids deserve better than that!

There should be dyslexia interventionists in every school in Missouri

Please help students like my son get the help and support they need to be successful student who can grow to become a successful adult.

Help our children receive the education they are entitled to. No child left Behind, is leaving many dyslexic children behind!. Thank you Decoding Missouri