Essentials of Dyslexia Assessment and Intervention | 
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rretzler Very important topic you‘re studying! 👍🏻 My younger son is gifted and also mildly dyslexic. He reads just at grade level, which is very low considering his intelligence. It took years for me to figure out what was up - unfortunately his teachers all saw him as an average student instead of gifted and he didn‘t get the differentiation that he should have. He‘s 14 and we‘re still struggling with how best to help him but now he‘s identified as 2e. 5y
BookishMarginalia @rretzler I would suggest that he use audiobooks — that‘s a wonderful resource and it takes a lot of the work of decoding language off his shoulders. He probably comprehends at a much higher level than he can actually read print. (In fact, check out https://www.audiobooksync.com for 2 free paired YA audiobooks per week during summer — you need the Overdrive app to download and they‘re yours to keep forever.) 5y
rretzler Thanks! We discovered audiobooks years ago and he primarily reads that way with the print or kindle book as a companion. I‘m already getting the audiobook sync freebies each week and he shares my audible account. Our biggest problem is standardized testing - there is no good way for this to happen. On some tests the computer can read the question but that hasn‘t been effective. On some tests he can ask for questions to be read but he doesn‘t like 5y
rretzler He also prefers graphics novels, but we have sort of run out of those at this point. He‘s read all of them we can find that interest him. 5y
MrBook 😻😻😻 5y
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