A student with dyslexia learns to love reading! | Lindamood-Bell Learning Centres (Australia)
A bright student describes what it’s like to have dyslexia and his experience learning to read in our centre in Double Bay. His mother gives her perspective, from struggles to getting services to what it’s like now that he’s reading grade-level chapter books!
I was diagnosed Dyslexic at 6.
I was diagnosed Dyslexic at 6. It took so long to come out because like many I was good at hiding it, either charming or angry depending on what would hide my secret that moment. I couldn’t read a two letter word, I could count to three one minute and couldn’t count past one 15…
Student success story: A teacher gets help for her own dyslexia
A literature teacher could inspire students and help them understand complex ideas. But her own dyslexia got in the way when it came to helping struggling readers. Hear why she got help, even when others thought it was too late.
A Mom’s Email
We knew from an early age that our daughter had developmental delays. She began early intervention services before she was 2 years old, in the hopes that she would “catch up.” But, “catching up” wasn’t in the cards and today she is a 5th grader and labeled as intellectually disabled. When she was about 3 years old, I…
An Olympic Thanks from a Mom
My son has struggled with reading since the very beginning. Fortunately for us we got a diagnosis of dyslexia very early in 2nd grade. However even the terrific reading support at school wasn’t enough to close the gap. I knew that if we did not make forward motion in 4th and 5th grade, middle school…