The Wrightslaw Way

This one-day Wrightslaw Special Education Workshop on October 18, 2013 is  designed to meet the needs of parents and professionals serving children and teens with disabilities. The program is specific to Federal and New York Special Ed Laws relating to dyslexia and autism. Attendance is limited to those who work or reside in New York. […]

Playing catch-up this summer? Use the time for summer learning and reading opportunities. Add these free resources to your reading list. From Wrightslaw: A Parent’s Guide to Response to Intervention (RTI) Response to Intervention: Guidelines for Parents and Practitioners From Montgomery County Public Schools (MD): A Guidebook for Twice Exceptional Students FREE e-books from the […]

We need your help. Please join the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity and Wrightslaw by signing this Petition to Congress. The Petition asks Congress to require testing agencies to provide accommodations for dyslexic students so their high stakes tests assess their abilities, not their disabilities. More than 18,000 people have signed the Petition. We need another 6,809 supporters. Please join us. It’s time to right […]

The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is conducting reviews of university-based teacher training programs in reading using the criteria set in the IDA Knowledge and Practice Standards. This is good news! On this blog we have often discussed how alarming it is that children are NOT learning how to read. Dyslexics or children with reading disorders […]

Meet a dedicated Youth Ambassador for dyslexia awareness – Anthony True. Pete met Anthony and heard his impressive presentation in April 2012 at the Wrightslaw Special Education Law and Advocacy Conference in Colorado. Youth Ambassadors travel around CO to give presentations that include research based evidence about learning disabilities. Combined with their individual stories, their […]

How old are you? Ninety-nine percent of us answer this question reflexively, without having to think. A reporter who asked Pete this question on the phone several years ago, was stunned when Pete  called to Pam and asked  – “How old am I?”  On other occasions, he resorts to using a calculator before answering and […]

Please write a book on 504 accommodations that includes ideas specific to dyslexia with emphasis on reading, writing & spelling. I need information on 504 accommodations beyond the typical ‘extended time’ – things like the use of text to speech for high stakes tests such as PSAT, ACT/SAT, and medical school/grad school exams. – from […]

The Atypical Learner Conference, designed for parents and caregivers of bright children who might be failing in school. The conference will focus on common causes and explanations for dyslexia, ADHD, speech delay, school failure and behavioral problems that are treatable. Pete Wright, will be one of the speakers on April 9th and will focus on […]

My son is in the 5th grade Resource Room. He has problems with reading and writing. I’m curious about dyslexia. What type of doctor can test him? What tests do they use? To my knowledge there is not one specific “test” for dyslexia. Evaluation is based on the “clinical judgment” of a psychologist, by the […]

My granddaughter is a happy little girl when not in reading situations.  She is almost 8, in the 2nd grade at a public school. She has a reading disability the private testing psychologist called dyslexia, ADD inattentive type,  and a processing deficit.  Her language IQ is low-average, her processing speed is slow. She cannot read […]