Most dyslexia resources are built for young children. This site is not. Everything here is designed for the older kid; ten, twelve, fourteen year olds who is still struggling with reading and need materials that fit their age and their dignity. No baby duck stories. No kindergarten worksheets. Real content for kids who are old enough to know they are behind and smart enough to deserve better.
My youngest son graduated from high school this year. I’m going to let that sit for a second, because for a long time I wasn’t sure I’d get to write that sentence. There were years when getting through one week of school felt like climbing a mountain, and getting a dyslexic son through twelve years
If your child is in middle school or high school and you’re lying awake wondering if you missed your window, I want to say this first: it is not too late to help an older child with dyslexia. I’m a mom, not a specialist, so I can only tell you what we lived. But we
If your son is getting defiant, joking his way out of schoolwork, or telling you everything is “stupid,” you may be wondering where this attitude came from. I wondered the same thing for years. We were getting told it’s a ‘boy thing’. Here’s what I learned. In our house, the attitude was never the real
Most people think dyslexia is only about reading. But some of the earliest signs of dyslexia in our house had nothing to do with books. Left and right confusion, shoe tying that never seemed to stick, coordination that was just a little bit off. These were the clues that showed up first, years before reading
If you have ever sat in an IEP meeting and felt like nobody in that room truly understood what was going on with your child, this post is for you. Is dyslexia a learning disability? Yes. Officially it is. But here is what that label does not tell you: dyslexia is a specific kind of
