Erin Cowan

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@Fritschner Probably because they took the cardinals phones away.

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@TerribleMaps Snow

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@goodreads Beartown Fredrik Backman

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@lxeagle17 @SplitTicket_ Side eyeing you from Florida. 😩

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@MappingFL 6th District Court of Appeals Jared Smith

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@Raine461 @MappingFL Hillsborough County has voting this weekend.

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@jkbjournalist @tide The Kirkland brand from Costco are my favorite.

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@palminvesting I’d rather give my kids money when they are starting out as young adults - when they need it - than to wait until I die when they are a lot older (hopefully for me 😆) and they don’t need as much help.

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@LEBassett So basically she’s saying boys will be boys. 🙄

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@btcwrites @franklinleonard Kohl’s? Nah…they’re still shopping from the Sears catalog.

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@ChristiCaldwell 1/2 In Hillsborough County, Florida restrictions are AUTOMATICALLY put on kids’ library cards. No access most of the books on their school’s summer reading lists. No classics are included. I couldn’t get Anne of GG. You have to go to the library to remove the restrictions.

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@csittenfeld I almost exclusively read on my kindle but I want this for my bookshelf. And I loved the audio too.

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@IMSEOG Manipulating

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FL is pretending to solve this problem with vouchers for everyone. But there aren’t enough private dyslexia schools and most of them are so expensive that the voucher doesn’t cover this cost. The closest dyslexia school to me is 50 mins away.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Wonderful that NYC is adding 2 new specialized schools for dyslexic children, for a total of 4.

👉 But y’all, NYC has 700 elementary schools.

We need more systemic solutions.

@troy_closson notes that 10-20% of kids may be affected by dyslexia, so +

https://t.co/Ld302fJksR

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@ElieNYC I can’t do any voices. I had to turn Harry Potter over to Jim Dale. Now the kid won’t even listen to audiobooks with me because I listen too slow.

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@washingtonpost At 3x the speed. He can search for info he needs within the audio. He can follow along with a physical cookbook or a graphic novel while using audio. Instead of throwing our hands up and saying books are too hard for audio let’s find ways to make them more accessible for everyone

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@washingtonpost This is pretty ableist. People with vision impairment and dyslexia shouldn’t be precluded from accessing books because the author thinks they are too complex or aren’t suited for audio. My 12-yr-old with dyslexia relies heavily on audio and can follow increasingly complex plots

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@larissaphillip @TishaRajendra “Independent reading” time was pure torture for my son. He knew he was supposed to be reading and he would panic because he couldn’t. It was causing school refusal and self-harming. I put my foot down and sent in an iPad for audiobooks.

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@IMSEOG Glad you said SOUND. I’m looking at you rhythm.

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@TheBookMaven @pazdice I just finished Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey by @KathleenMRooney which I absolutely loved.