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[quote=Anonymous]Another dyslexia mom here- I am part of Decoding Dyslexia and we have managed to get a lot of universal screening legislation passed.

But the teacher’s comment made me wonder- how can we better engage teachers? I have to admit I have been very frustrated with the teachers in my child’s schools who have said things like:
-she can’t be dyslexic, she’s too smart will defend it to the death
-don’t waste your money on a private assessment, you can’t diagnose dyslexia before 3rd grade
-we have to do 1 year of this inappropriate reading intervention before we can implement an OG program (the only kind that works)
-and the whole language nonsense that has taken over the colleges of education and yet is ineffective for so many learners, but those people will defend it against any research because they’ve seen it work

So how can we break through to those teachers?

Our local dyslexia advocacy group has some teachers but even they say their colleagues are very close-minded about the science of reading.

Should we fund scholarships for OG training to give them a lucrative tutoring sideline? Do we need to start with admins? Do we need to get to the universities first? [/quote]

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