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Great article from APM

How American schools fail kids with dyslexia There are proven ways to help people with dyslexia learn to read, and a federal law that's supposed to ensure schools provide kids with help. But across the country, public schools are denying children proper treatment and often failing to identify them with dyslexia in the first place.

Exciting day at the Gaithersburg Book Festival last weekend listening to presentations like the one from Winifred Conkling on her latest young adult novel, Votes for Women.

I highly recommend her work!

I just learned a great new strategy as I watched as a graduate English student with dyslexia print an extended reading assignment. She copied the document, pasted it into a new Word document, then reformatted it with columns so her eye would not get lost as it traveled across the page. She made four very narrow columns which works best for her. Three cheers for inventiveness!

Listen to the child.

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong? Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.