The Wrightslaw Way

We think the school system continues to prey on parents in I.E.P. meetings. Having good information is valuable but does no good when the school preys on parents knowing full well these parents  cannot challenge them. You should start pushing class actions and parents sticking together in a unified action. Class actions can cost many […]

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 […]

Most college special education masters programs do not include comprehensive instruction in reading for dyslexics. Yet, dyslexics or children with reading disorders make up 70-80% of the special education students. Is there any wonder why special education reading scores are so low? How does this happen?