Although I'm no longer in the public school sector, I still wanted voices heard! Dyslexia Awareness Month ended yesterday, but awareness of the 1 in 5 should be 365!
Voices of Dyslexia 2025
A final daily Dyslexia Awareness Month post. Be your child’s number one advocate. This example will help prepare them to advocate for themselves and possible their own child in the future. Remember, an informed parent is a weapon.
It’s mixed feelings. It can strike fear…will my child struggle like me? I made it through, they don’t need extra help. Or, I struggle too, there is help now. It can be a time of reflection, facing the identification of their kid & remembering the past. We know better now.
Don’t discount the perceptive nature that some people with dyslexia have. “They say I gotta learn, but nobody’s here to teach me? If they can’t understand it, how can they reach me?”-Coolio
Fatigue can look like; refusal to work, lack of motivation, acting out, tiredness, inattention, headaches, eye strain, inability to maintain posture doing desk work, eloping, disrupting, tears/anger, clowning, anxiety & more. Think about a tackling a struggle 24/7. Empathize.
The daily test can be a life or death situation…make a wrong turn, misread a prescription. The world is saturated in texts, it’s not just a “in school” thing.
Remember, fluency isn’t just about speed. Even some of the quickest of readers do not comprehend what they’ve read. If we take a bit longer and can still comprehend in the end, that’s a win.
Automaticity with decoding/word recognition when reading is a major obstacle for people with dyslexia. It impacts fluency and can in turn impact comprehension. At times so much cognitive effort is spent in lifting the words from the page that not much is left for comprehension.