KQED News Mind/Shift – Holly Korbey
“Last fall, over the course of five stories, we attempted to piece together where dyslexia, also known as a failure to read words and sentences that affects anywhere between 5-20 percent of students, stands in schools today. The results of our research, along with consultations with the country’s best experts as well as parent and teacher interviews, were by no means conclusive, but still informative. The takeaway: We have a long way to go in schools toward understanding, diagnosing and properly intervening for students with dyslexia. For many, just saying the word dyslexia is an issue, for only 30 states currently recognize dyslexia as an actual condition, instead listing failure to read under a host of different diagnoses and terms, confusing parents and hindering many students from getting the early, intense intervention they desperately need from inside the system. Some families step outside their school system for private one-on-one testing, tutoring and assistance to aid their dyslexic children, nearly all of which comes at an exorbitant cost.”(more)