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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]And it is like a riot whenever FCPS runs a session on dyslexia at the parent education center. The stories you hear are terrifying. But this does seem to vary by school a bit. [/quote]

Why is this?  It is perplexing to me. [/quote]

RE: FCPS and dyslexia --

Here are the slides from a presentation on dyslexia from 2014 to parents

http://www.fcps.edu/dss/osp/prc/resources/events/documents/PRCDyslexiaHandout2014.pdf

66 slides and only ONE of them talks about strategies or techniques for helping students learn to decode.   (The "break apart strategy" for breaking multisyllable words into chunks.)

This despite the fact that intense, explicit and systematic instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics and other decoding skills are what have been shown to actually remediate dyslexia.

There should be a LOT more emphasis put on what systematic, explicit instruction is available to students, especially those in upper elementary or middle school who might still need basic decoding instruction NOT just modifications and accommodations to help them get through the text by listening to it read aloud, us using picture cues to guess.

The reason schools do not provide more explicit decoding instruction past 3rd grade is that it would usually need to be done one one one and that is not cost effective.

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