This is an imperative in the fight for equality in urban St. Louis. And probably rural Missouri as well.
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Dana Evans
10 years ago
My son suffers from dyslexia every day we need more available help in the school ASAP
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Robin Boda
10 years ago
It's been a long time coming! EVERY child DESERVES to learn to read in a way that makes sense to their brain. There are programs that work, but too many students are falling through the cracks as they can't receive additional support in the classroom or in pull- out time due to Missouri's arbitrary discrepancy model. Please, stop putting limits on student futures. Our prisons are are overcrowded with kids (young and old) that can't read. It is our DUTY to teach them to read DURING school hours, to provide systematic, multi-sensory instruction AND to allow text-to-speech and speech-to-text apps in the classroom. Dyslexic students can convey learning more appropriately when offered these widely available tools. Reading and communicating is critical to reducing poverty. PLEASE allow "dyslexia" to be identified. Please train teachers in simple ways to work with trained tutors to multiply the effectiveness of instruction. I've observed far too many classrooms where students are given a book to read, but the student is at a total loss for HOW to read. Below is the text of an essay "written" (by speaking to an iPad in Google Docs) by three ADULT non-readers.
When I start to read I feel like crap. My brain is not used to working this hard. When I get a page I feel like I don't want to do it. It's hard to learn how to read. Sounding out words is hard for me. It’s as hard as getting along with people. It feels like you're in a closed, dark room. When you don't know how to put the words together or the the sounds together to make the words, it makes you feel like wanting to give up. It makes you feel like you don't know what you're doing. If you don't know the sounds and you're trying to force yourself to know them, it won't make any sense and it all starts to shut down in your brain. That's why it feels like a dark room.
I feel like it's my fault. When I had the chance to learn, I was being a clown. And I didn't learn what I was supposed to. I never put the focus into
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Alvin N Jordan
10 years ago
As many as one in five students may have some degree of dyslexia.
I am 1 in 5. My daughter is 1 in 5. We support 1 in 5.
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Alvin N Jordan
10 years ago
As many as one in five students may have some degree of dyslexia. I am 1 in 5. My daughter is 1 in 5. We support 1 in 5.
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Diana Ables
10 years ago
It is about time. A lot of children suffer from this disability and need help to be successful in school. Many teachers are not taught on how to help this disability in college or have the tools necessary to teacher a child with this disability.
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Jennifer Smith
10 years ago
I have had students with dyslexia only to be denied services because it is not recognized in MO. I also think dysgraphia and dyscalucia should be addressed as well.
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Gary Grigsby
10 years ago
School Boards stand ready to implement when the Missouri Legislature funds & the state board directs.
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Arnold Fenske
10 years ago
Let's help the kids to help themselves.
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Dave Morris
10 years ago
It's time for Missouri to step up and recognize this disability.
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Sherri Lechten
10 years ago
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Dyslexia should be addressed within our school systems like any other learning difficulty or deficiency. If we can provide speech therapy for pronunciation difficulties, we can provide vision therapy for those who have reading/writing difficulties.
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Niki Townsend
10 years ago
It's time to recognize the kids with dyslexia, they work so hard to stay caught up.
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Rainah Pray
10 years ago
As a teacher, I found it extremely disheartening that we are unable to provide the appropriate diagnosis/resources for students who exhibit the behaviors associated with dyslexia.
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Nancy hawn
10 years ago
Dyslexia is a real learning disability as a teacher with a special needs credential we need to recognize and help students who have this problem
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Leslie Royer
10 years ago
My grandson has sever dyslexia he was held back because that what schools do first and then we have to fight the system in order to get anything now they are wanting to drop his IEP because dyslexia is not considered a disability athough he is atleast a year and more behind his peers. His ability to communicate verbally is way to compensate but he still needs to be able to read and write. A beautiful mind is a terrible thing to waste without support or education.
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Camren Nowak
10 years ago
My son was diagnosed almost 4 years ago. He is in 5th grade now. His reading skills are a full grade behind his peers. I have spent thousands of dollars in tutoring to keep him where he is. I have gotten no help from his school and we are afraid that the gap is going to get bigger and he will continue to fall further behind as he gets older. He has an IEP and the IEP is a joke. They do nothing to help him with his dyslexia. They do not provide him with technology and it makes me sick. When will this state stand up for his rights as a child with a learning disability and help him. He is entitled to the same learning and education as other children. He just needs a different way to be taught. In stead they put him in a class room with children that are severely handy cap and disruptive in a regular class. These children are a disruption to his learning. He is an out cast in his hot room and labeled stupid and bullied. My son is bright and creative and a great kid. He just cant read. He is not given the tools to succeed, What will it take for our schools to see that them fighting parents on the helping our children is costing them more money then just providing the kids with what they need. Shame on you Missouri schools.
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Judith Hays
10 years ago
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I have two nieces with dyslexia. One is 21. She struggled all of the way in school. The other is 10. Since resources in her school district are nonexistent relative to severe dyslexia, she must go to a private school. The tuition is a hardship for her single mother.
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Linda Batten
10 years ago
We must screen children for dyslexian in grades K, 1 and 2.
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Angela Turner
10 years ago
I'm begging you, please. Get on board and change things for these kids in the public school system. It is critical!
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Angela Turner
10 years ago
My son has dyslexia and I'm still struggling with our school district to get them to acknowledge and meet his needs. It is so hard to see him in the 4th grade and still not able to read fluently at a beginning first grade level. The district maintains that they are giving him special education services and that language impairment is his diagnosis because there isn't a 22 point gap between his IQ and his academic level (although there is a 20 point gap) while ignoring documentation that he is suspected to have dyslexia. They keep using the same curriculum with the same strategies that they use for all special education students every year and expecting a different result for my son. I'm stuck because I'm an employee of this district. Missouri needs to get on board and do something for all these kids with dyslexia. I know the school would see big improvement with their scores if they would just acknowledge and do the right things for these kids. These kids deserved more!
This is an imperative in the fight for equality in urban St. Louis. And probably rural Missouri as well.
My son suffers from dyslexia every day we need more available help in the school ASAP
It's been a long time coming! EVERY child DESERVES to learn to read in a way that makes sense to their brain. There are programs that work, but too many students are falling through the cracks as they can't receive additional support in the classroom or in pull- out time due to Missouri's arbitrary discrepancy model. Please, stop putting limits on student futures. Our prisons are are overcrowded with kids (young and old) that can't read. It is our DUTY to teach them to read DURING school hours, to provide systematic, multi-sensory instruction AND to allow text-to-speech and speech-to-text apps in the classroom. Dyslexic students can convey learning more appropriately when offered these widely available tools. Reading and communicating is critical to reducing poverty. PLEASE allow "dyslexia" to be identified. Please train teachers in simple ways to work with trained tutors to multiply the effectiveness of instruction. I've observed far too many classrooms where students are given a book to read, but the student is at a total loss for HOW to read. Below is the text of an essay "written" (by speaking to an iPad in Google Docs) by three ADULT non-readers. When I start to read I feel like crap. My brain is not used to working this hard. When I get a page I feel like I don't want to do it. It's hard to learn how to read. Sounding out words is hard for me. It’s as hard as getting along with people. It feels like you're in a closed, dark room. When you don't know how to put the words together or the the sounds together to make the words, it makes you feel like wanting to give up. It makes you feel like you don't know what you're doing. If you don't know the sounds and you're trying to force yourself to know them, it won't make any sense and it all starts to shut down in your brain. That's why it feels like a dark room. I feel like it's my fault. When I had the chance to learn, I was being a clown. And I didn't learn what I was supposed to. I never put the focus into
As many as one in five students may have some degree of dyslexia. I am 1 in 5. My daughter is 1 in 5. We support 1 in 5.
As many as one in five students may have some degree of dyslexia. I am 1 in 5. My daughter is 1 in 5. We support 1 in 5.
It is about time. A lot of children suffer from this disability and need help to be successful in school. Many teachers are not taught on how to help this disability in college or have the tools necessary to teacher a child with this disability.
I have had students with dyslexia only to be denied services because it is not recognized in MO. I also think dysgraphia and dyscalucia should be addressed as well.
School Boards stand ready to implement when the Missouri Legislature funds & the state board directs.
Let's help the kids to help themselves.
It's time for Missouri to step up and recognize this disability.
Dyslexia should be addressed within our school systems like any other learning difficulty or deficiency. If we can provide speech therapy for pronunciation difficulties, we can provide vision therapy for those who have reading/writing difficulties.
It's time to recognize the kids with dyslexia, they work so hard to stay caught up.
As a teacher, I found it extremely disheartening that we are unable to provide the appropriate diagnosis/resources for students who exhibit the behaviors associated with dyslexia.
Dyslexia is a real learning disability as a teacher with a special needs credential we need to recognize and help students who have this problem
My grandson has sever dyslexia he was held back because that what schools do first and then we have to fight the system in order to get anything now they are wanting to drop his IEP because dyslexia is not considered a disability athough he is atleast a year and more behind his peers. His ability to communicate verbally is way to compensate but he still needs to be able to read and write. A beautiful mind is a terrible thing to waste without support or education.
My son was diagnosed almost 4 years ago. He is in 5th grade now. His reading skills are a full grade behind his peers. I have spent thousands of dollars in tutoring to keep him where he is. I have gotten no help from his school and we are afraid that the gap is going to get bigger and he will continue to fall further behind as he gets older. He has an IEP and the IEP is a joke. They do nothing to help him with his dyslexia. They do not provide him with technology and it makes me sick. When will this state stand up for his rights as a child with a learning disability and help him. He is entitled to the same learning and education as other children. He just needs a different way to be taught. In stead they put him in a class room with children that are severely handy cap and disruptive in a regular class. These children are a disruption to his learning. He is an out cast in his hot room and labeled stupid and bullied. My son is bright and creative and a great kid. He just cant read. He is not given the tools to succeed, What will it take for our schools to see that them fighting parents on the helping our children is costing them more money then just providing the kids with what they need. Shame on you Missouri schools.
I have two nieces with dyslexia. One is 21. She struggled all of the way in school. The other is 10. Since resources in her school district are nonexistent relative to severe dyslexia, she must go to a private school. The tuition is a hardship for her single mother.
We must screen children for dyslexian in grades K, 1 and 2.
I'm begging you, please. Get on board and change things for these kids in the public school system. It is critical!
My son has dyslexia and I'm still struggling with our school district to get them to acknowledge and meet his needs. It is so hard to see him in the 4th grade and still not able to read fluently at a beginning first grade level. The district maintains that they are giving him special education services and that language impairment is his diagnosis because there isn't a 22 point gap between his IQ and his academic level (although there is a 20 point gap) while ignoring documentation that he is suspected to have dyslexia. They keep using the same curriculum with the same strategies that they use for all special education students every year and expecting a different result for my son. I'm stuck because I'm an employee of this district. Missouri needs to get on board and do something for all these kids with dyslexia. I know the school would see big improvement with their scores if they would just acknowledge and do the right things for these kids. These kids deserved more!