FixLexia

FixLexia is no longer open as of December 2024.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-parents-of-dyslexic-children-are-teaching-schools-about-literacy?fbclid=IwAR013zuhf3mwmXvlY6E1AQH0cyeQnQ28M88EE66T02c9Q1sIt3AN9UlKObo

What parents of dyslexic children are teaching schools about literacy Fewer than 40 percent of fourth and eighth grade students nationwide are proficient readers. Now, led by parents of children with dyslexia, a learning disability that makes reading and spelling difficult, some states are trying to change how reading is taught. Special correspondent Lisa Stark report...

For those that want to help children with dyslexia succeed, look no further! UNO has a Dyslexia Specialist Graduate Certificate. If you have questions, contact Dr. Amanda Kern (email link below). Thank you, Dr. Kern, for leading this important initiative!
https://www.unomaha.edu/college-of-education-health-and-human-sciences/special-education-communication-disorders/graduate/dyslexia-specialist-certificate.php

For EVERY parent AND teacher that have desperately tried to teach a child to read and faced consistent roadblocks to providing the instruction a child needed, and watched the heartbreak of a struggling reader. This is podcast is for you! https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/

Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read. In this new podcast, host Emily H...

A Former Teacher’s Story on How Balanced Literacy Failed My Son by Missy Purcell Sometimes the only way we can change the way we think is to actually see the need for change with our very own eyes . . . I will never forget sitting in Matthew’s kindergarten parent/teacher conference. I knew my youngest was struggling to learn to read, and I wanted to know why. ...

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