Children are being left behind at an alarming and torn unnoticed rate. This has to to stop. We can do better for kids. Mental health goes hand in hand with providing proper reading intervention and support to our kids with 504 and IEP. The kids that lose interest in school, in reading and begin to fail... the educational system is failing them not the other way around. The rate of depression increases dramatically when kids aren’t given a fighting chance.
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Tanya Roberts
5 years ago
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I am the custodial grandma to a 4th grader with Dyslexia & Dysgraphia. It is appalling that our teachers do not learn about Dyslexia and Dysgraphia when attending college and before entering a classroom!!!
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Leona Yates
6 years ago
Every child deserves a good education. Children all learn differently and schools need to provide a variety of methods and opportunities for each student in the way that they could reach their potential Every teacher needs to be educated on how to recognize dyslexia.
My grandson is in fourth grade and he would struggle even more than he already does if we didn’t have him tested privately and weekly private tutoring at the families expense. He has an above average IQ and loves to learn, but when you can’t read efficiently it affects every aspect of your life. Think how frustrating it must be to understand that you are smart but cannot learn the way you are being taught in school. Florida Schools need to supply appropriate support and interventions based off the students potential and not test scores.
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Elizabeth
6 years ago
#UntilEveryoneCanRead
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La Shunda Howard
6 years ago
Literacy Matters
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Stephani Douberly
6 years ago
I am an active parent of a 6th grader who is currently reading on a 3rd grade level Pre-Covid. In Manatee County we have been told by the schoolboard that they are happy to report 53% of children are proficient 3rd grade readers. What about the other 47%? What about my child and the other 47%? The window to correct these issues are closing as they grow older. Our children are consistently ignored year after year while administration push them through to the next grade just passing the buck.
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Stephanie Valentine
6 years ago
Hillsborough County offers nothing to support children with Dyslexia. Teachers flat out refuse to follow IEP’s for these children and are uninterested in finding ways to help these kids succeed.
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Christina Brown
6 years ago
I have children in upper grades, who have had speech and reading interventions since preK who still read far below grade level. Any questions about bridging the gap are scoffed at. They all have IEPs.
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Priscilla Henry
6 years ago
My 15 year old an not diagnosed with dyslexia until he was in 6th grade and the schools pushed him along even though he was reading on a kindergarten - 1st grade level. He is still behind and I had to get a disability rights lawyer.
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Elizabeth Sutphin
6 years ago
Dyslexic children need services provided in schools and be supported and encouraged as they face the incredible challenge of reading. Growing up we weren't singled out we were given extra help to achieve long term goals. As my children face this challenge I am disgusted at how the state of Florida approaches providing dyslexic children the resources and help they need. My son couldn't read, I raised the concerns of dyslexia as I am dyslexic and so are many of my family members, the school did nothing. They insisted it was a behavioral problem and ignored all the signs of a dyslexic child; even after a parent shares repeated evidence. It took a year of fighting the system trying to get evaluations to only have to do it on our own out if pocket. Then we couldn't everdeen get an IEP because Dyslexia didn't qualify as a learning disability. How is that possible? No actual help from the school, we have spent tens of thousands of dollars to get my gifted son the learning therapy he needed.
How frustrating to have an extremely high IQ and not be able to read and do your lessons. To not get the help you desperately need and desire. To feel like a failure daily when your potential is sooo much more. That turns into behavioral problems in class and then more negative attention. All preventable by having the appropriate support and interventions based off potential not test scores. Interventions that are proven for dyslexia, not the joke that is iReady. Our son shows enormous progress over this past year. Not from the tier 2 interventions of iReady, but from hours of one on one learning therapy multiple times a week. All provided by us, not the school system. We were able to provide this, but so many families do not have the means to provide this. No families should have to do this on their own or watch their child fail and bare the burden of feeling less than until they reach the level that the state deems low enough to assist. And then not provide the correct intervention.
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Tricia Vega
6 years ago
My daughter is 14 and she is actually above grade level but that is because we had her tested independently when she was in 3 rd grade, we had a tutor for Orrin Gillingham for over a year and we have worked hard together. This definitely needs to be addressed in all schools!
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Danny
6 years ago
Help our communities to right by each other
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Maelisa Cruz
6 years ago
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I have 2 children with dyslexia. I’m so grateful they had learned the very basics in TX or they would be so much worse of than they are now. Orton-Gillingham method and Science Of Reading is the only way to teach kids to read with fidelity. ALL kids have the RIGHT to FAPE.
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Jennifer Baker
6 years ago
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My daughter 11 years old doesn't understand vowels or how they work gets confused on easy words like house, from, cat, etc. This is not right!! Then to he told that public schools don't teach spelling since lids pick it up while reading wjat a cop out. Teach our babies!!!
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Anonymous
6 years ago
My son in not enrolled in public school as they do not have the skills or tools needed to teach him properly. It can be done - I am doing it myself along with great resources available.
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Janice Price
6 years ago
Schools need to address this issue and stop depending on a reading coach to help students who are not reading on grade level. They are not recognizing dyslexia and using iReady as a mean teaching tool for reading. A dyslexic child does not benefit from it. My daughter made it through K and 1st being dyslexic, intervention did not mention it. Had to get her evaluated out of my own pocket and there is not much help for her at school. IEP meetings don’t even discuss this diagnosis. Shameful Florida education.
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Stephanie Holloran
6 years ago
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My son is in 7th grade, we knew in kindergarten that he had dyslexia. They school has never implemented and followed through with a proven reading program from beginning to end with him. Seems like it would be much less money to do it right the first time
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Jacqueline Kenny
6 years ago
There is more to reading than reading. Spelling and understanding vocabulary are also part of the reading process and educators aren’t grasping that.
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Jason Cronk
6 years ago
Dyslexia needs to be addressed in every school.
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Jacqueline Charette
6 years ago
I was told my daughter probably has dyslexia & dyscalculia but can't get tested.
Children are being left behind at an alarming and torn unnoticed rate. This has to to stop. We can do better for kids. Mental health goes hand in hand with providing proper reading intervention and support to our kids with 504 and IEP. The kids that lose interest in school, in reading and begin to fail... the educational system is failing them not the other way around. The rate of depression increases dramatically when kids aren’t given a fighting chance.
I am the custodial grandma to a 4th grader with Dyslexia & Dysgraphia. It is appalling that our teachers do not learn about Dyslexia and Dysgraphia when attending college and before entering a classroom!!!
Every child deserves a good education. Children all learn differently and schools need to provide a variety of methods and opportunities for each student in the way that they could reach their potential Every teacher needs to be educated on how to recognize dyslexia. My grandson is in fourth grade and he would struggle even more than he already does if we didn’t have him tested privately and weekly private tutoring at the families expense. He has an above average IQ and loves to learn, but when you can’t read efficiently it affects every aspect of your life. Think how frustrating it must be to understand that you are smart but cannot learn the way you are being taught in school. Florida Schools need to supply appropriate support and interventions based off the students potential and not test scores.
#UntilEveryoneCanRead
Literacy Matters
I am an active parent of a 6th grader who is currently reading on a 3rd grade level Pre-Covid. In Manatee County we have been told by the schoolboard that they are happy to report 53% of children are proficient 3rd grade readers. What about the other 47%? What about my child and the other 47%? The window to correct these issues are closing as they grow older. Our children are consistently ignored year after year while administration push them through to the next grade just passing the buck.
Hillsborough County offers nothing to support children with Dyslexia. Teachers flat out refuse to follow IEP’s for these children and are uninterested in finding ways to help these kids succeed.
I have children in upper grades, who have had speech and reading interventions since preK who still read far below grade level. Any questions about bridging the gap are scoffed at. They all have IEPs.
My 15 year old an not diagnosed with dyslexia until he was in 6th grade and the schools pushed him along even though he was reading on a kindergarten - 1st grade level. He is still behind and I had to get a disability rights lawyer.
Dyslexic children need services provided in schools and be supported and encouraged as they face the incredible challenge of reading. Growing up we weren't singled out we were given extra help to achieve long term goals. As my children face this challenge I am disgusted at how the state of Florida approaches providing dyslexic children the resources and help they need. My son couldn't read, I raised the concerns of dyslexia as I am dyslexic and so are many of my family members, the school did nothing. They insisted it was a behavioral problem and ignored all the signs of a dyslexic child; even after a parent shares repeated evidence. It took a year of fighting the system trying to get evaluations to only have to do it on our own out if pocket. Then we couldn't everdeen get an IEP because Dyslexia didn't qualify as a learning disability. How is that possible? No actual help from the school, we have spent tens of thousands of dollars to get my gifted son the learning therapy he needed. How frustrating to have an extremely high IQ and not be able to read and do your lessons. To not get the help you desperately need and desire. To feel like a failure daily when your potential is sooo much more. That turns into behavioral problems in class and then more negative attention. All preventable by having the appropriate support and interventions based off potential not test scores. Interventions that are proven for dyslexia, not the joke that is iReady. Our son shows enormous progress over this past year. Not from the tier 2 interventions of iReady, but from hours of one on one learning therapy multiple times a week. All provided by us, not the school system. We were able to provide this, but so many families do not have the means to provide this. No families should have to do this on their own or watch their child fail and bare the burden of feeling less than until they reach the level that the state deems low enough to assist. And then not provide the correct intervention.
My daughter is 14 and she is actually above grade level but that is because we had her tested independently when she was in 3 rd grade, we had a tutor for Orrin Gillingham for over a year and we have worked hard together. This definitely needs to be addressed in all schools!
Help our communities to right by each other
I have 2 children with dyslexia. I’m so grateful they had learned the very basics in TX or they would be so much worse of than they are now. Orton-Gillingham method and Science Of Reading is the only way to teach kids to read with fidelity. ALL kids have the RIGHT to FAPE.
My daughter 11 years old doesn't understand vowels or how they work gets confused on easy words like house, from, cat, etc. This is not right!! Then to he told that public schools don't teach spelling since lids pick it up while reading wjat a cop out. Teach our babies!!!
My son in not enrolled in public school as they do not have the skills or tools needed to teach him properly. It can be done - I am doing it myself along with great resources available.
Schools need to address this issue and stop depending on a reading coach to help students who are not reading on grade level. They are not recognizing dyslexia and using iReady as a mean teaching tool for reading. A dyslexic child does not benefit from it. My daughter made it through K and 1st being dyslexic, intervention did not mention it. Had to get her evaluated out of my own pocket and there is not much help for her at school. IEP meetings don’t even discuss this diagnosis. Shameful Florida education.
My son is in 7th grade, we knew in kindergarten that he had dyslexia. They school has never implemented and followed through with a proven reading program from beginning to end with him. Seems like it would be much less money to do it right the first time
There is more to reading than reading. Spelling and understanding vocabulary are also part of the reading process and educators aren’t grasping that.
Dyslexia needs to be addressed in every school.
I was told my daughter probably has dyslexia & dyscalculia but can't get tested.