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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I also have a friend whose child has been recently diagnosed with dyslexia and there is an appalling lack of effective services in public schools for a disability that is[b] easily remediated[/b] with appropriate instruction and that is quite prevalent (up to 20% of kids may be affected). 
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This is not necessarily true.  I agree it needs remediation, but it is not easy and is not necessarily successful.[/quote]

It is easy in the sense that the research-based approach is well-defined and well- understood.

It does require a lot of work from the kids- a dyslexic colleague described it as brutally demanding.  And the teachers should meet with the child at least 3 times a week for an hour for the multi-sensory instruction.  And the approach has to be tailored for each child’s progress so it is best done individually. But the individual tailoring is how teachers describe their instruction practices generally, so it doesn’t seem like it would be more challenging from a teacher perspective.

But I think it is very rare for a child to not be able to be remediated when the instruction is started in K or 1.  I think the failure of instruction is more likely the result of late identification/ poor remediation efforts or a complicating additional disability such as ID.[/quote]

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