Aileen Aylward Hammar

Founder AHA Consulting; special education consultation, advocacy, intervention; Wired for Reading, Handwriting Without Tears, sign language (ASL, SEE)

[𝗗𝗿 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗲𝗹 𝗦𝘄𝗮𝗶𝗻 @NathanielRSwain]

Everyone teaching phonemic awareness READ THIS ‼️This blog skilfully explores the research as to why phonemic awareness should focused on blending and segmenting of individual sounds [rather than lots of time on rhyme, syllables]. ⏰Get up to date! https://t.co/tYbjFgCXp0

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@InsideWithPsaki @rweingarten Only adults with children can be teachers? Look back the 50s and 60s and before, women being EXCLUDED once they became pregnant. Teaching only women before child bearing, or after they became widows like my grandmother, or kids grown. Now only if juggling everything. 🙄

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@karenvaites Biden continues to be a masterful. Waiting until after the R’s convention to gauge how to play this. Deny them the narrative. A real distinction b/w another choice forward, and Biden being unable to complete his current term. He continues to lead diplomatically and politically.

[five from five @FIVEfromFIVE]

Clear and handy summary on basic principles of behaviour - great for sharing!

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@thereidout Who rebuts this? From conservative friends on FB. I keep close so I can see what’s being said! Can y’all take the audience through this? Is there a primer on WHO and WHAT Leo, the Heritage Foundation, 2025, Koch Bros are pulling the strings?

https://t.co/yzNvIypH1C

[Assemblymember Robert Carroll @Bobby4Brooklyn]

🚨We made history! 🚨

First in the nation mandate for private insurance to cover neuropsychological examination for the purpose of diagnosing dyslexia.

TY @bradhoylman and all the advocates.

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@janhasbrouck Wow! Just wow! Thanks to you all for guiding us all.

[Jan Hasbrouck, Ph.D. @janhasbrouck]

Calling ALL instructional coaches and administrators who support their work! You do NOT want to miss this one!

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@janhasbrouck Dream team!

[Hugh Catts @CattsHugh]

Thanks so much for sharing your story and bringing attention to flawed approaches to identifying dyslexia.

[Dyslexia Alliance for Black Children @DyslexiaBlack]

Exciting News for Conference Attendees! We're thrilled to announce that our conference has been approved for 7.25 CE credits by the Academic Language Therapy Association (ALTA).
📋 Register now! https://t.co/nPPBvQEvOG

[Emily Hanford @ehanford]

"It’s common knowledge that never learning to read well damages children’s self-esteem, their life prospects, and our country’s future workforce. What’s less talked about is how, when schools fail to teach reading, it harms the public’s trust in schools." https://t.co/YzARdQSRQE

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@GaabLab @BostonGlobe I have books dating to the 1920s and early 30s from my grandmother who was a teacher in BPS. Structured Literacy all the way!

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@Catheri90859348 @GaabLab We are in WA state. A purveyor of BL training from BC worked here for 7 years. Our state dept of ed just ended that relationship. It was schizophrenic. They’d provided BL training for yrs here, “learned” the SOR aka like Calkins. But continued BL PD, products in BC,

[Sonya Thomas @Sonyathemom]

If I make you mad because I’m advocating children then you’re going to be big mad. Happy Sunday

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@janhasbrouck Frustrated that Calkins was able to negotiate to retain control of TCRWP materials and PD. All developed while on faculty? With what grants or funds? So wish Columbia/TC had had the ability retain control. They’ve merely divested themselves of the “problem” and provided autonomy.

[Kari Kurto @MsKurto]

Language is the anchor of reading comprehension. What we are comprehending IS language. Developing accurate and automatic decoding is the KEY to unlocking complex, knowledge/empathy-building texts with advanced language & syntax. I developed this infographic to demonstrate this.

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@jwdanner @DrMariaMurray1 Confused why this product is called Project Read when there is already a well known OG literacy intervention by the same name. More complicated - it was recently sold and being revamped so this muddies understanding status of Project Read (original) and your product.

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@MsKurto @kymyona_burk @HeatherPeske How do we work with our state to apply for Cohort 3?!

[Aileen Aylward Hammar @aileen_hammar]

@Zheng_Zhang_ @GaabLab @PengPeng_UT Looks really interesting. Is there an open source for it? Looks like it’s behind a paywall