{"id":19640,"date":"2019-02-21T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=19640"},"modified":"2019-10-01T13:20:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-01T17:20:45","slug":"turnaround-at-upper-arlington-school-district-despite-dyslexia-every-child-can-learn-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/turnaround-at-upper-arlington-school-district-despite-dyslexia-every-child-can-learn-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Turnaround in Upper Arlington: Despite Dyslexia &#8211; Every Child Can Learn to Read!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Turnaround%20in%20Upper%20Arlington%3A%20Despite%20Dyslexia%20-%20Every%20Child%20Can%20Learn%20to%20Read%21\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Coming Spring 2020 &#8211; or sooner!\u00a0 Our Dyslexic Children<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dyslexialive\/videos\/222712158674721\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Watch the trailer<\/span><\/a>&#8230;as Pete,\u00a0Dr. Kevin Gorman, Upper Arlington Director of Student Services,\u00a0Andrea Rowson, Upper Arlington Reading Specialist, and other experts speak to the science of teaching a child to read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dyslexialive\/videos\/222712158674721\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-23965\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-11.45.46-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"503\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-11.45.46-AM.png 500w, https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-21-at-11.45.46-AM-300x194.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">*****<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><em>Updated from a post originally published 11\/03\/2016<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Six years ago Upper Arlington Schools were dismissing frustrated parents of students with dyslexia.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The District refused to identify students with reading disabilities<\/li>\n<li>Students languished and fell further behind in class<\/li>\n<li>Schools used ineffective programs or did not provide services at all<\/li>\n<li>Parents were ignored<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Families fled the district to receive services elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Enough! UA-KID Files State Complaint<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>19 parents signed onto a complaint to the state on Aug. 30, 2010.<\/p>\n<p><strong>These parents &#8220;set out to become experts in federal law and about the latest reading research<\/strong>. They crafted a mission statement and appointed officers, becoming UA-KID.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Ohio Department of Education found Upper Arlington guilty of all the allegations and &#8220;ruled in 2011 that Upper Arlington was breaking federal law<\/strong>, refusing for years to identify students with reading disabilities and not giving them services that made a difference.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2016\/10\/10\/parents-praise-upper-arlingtons-turnaround-to-help-dyslexic-students.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-19641 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-03-at-4.08.47-PM.png\" alt=\"Parents praise Upper Arlington's turnaround to help dyslexic students \" width=\"498\" height=\"286\" \/><\/a>Brett Tingley, Upper Arlington mother and president of the advocacy group UA-KID explains why she filed a complaint against Upper Arlington school during the annual meeting of the <span style=\"color: #0066cc;\"><a style=\"color: #0066cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/coh.dyslexiaida.org\/\">Central Ohio Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, or COBIDA.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Personally, I have to pinch myself when I go into meetings (about my child),&#8221; Tingley said. &#8220;It was surreal to have the director of student services actually suggest things that would help my child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tingley advised parents: &#8220;<strong>If (school officials) do not listen, you must take action<\/strong>&#8230;You cannot get those years or their self-confidence back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Now, parents are praising Upper Arlington schools for the turnaround while school officials say &#8220;spotting reading trouble early pays huge dividends over time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted on the Columbus Dispatch, read the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2016\/10\/10\/parents-praise-upper-arlingtons-turnaround-to-help-dyslexic-students.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Parents praise Upper Arlington&#8217;s turnaround to help dyslexic students<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2016\/10\/10\/parents-praise-upper-arlingtons-turnaround-to-help-dyslexic-students.html\"><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">https:\/\/www.dispatch.com\/content\/stories\/local\/2016\/10\/10\/parents-praise-upper-arlingtons-turnaround-to-help-dyslexic-students.html<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>You may also like&#8230;.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #993300;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/needless-to-say-i-have-no-use-for-reading-recovery\/\">Needless to Say, &#8220;I Have No Excuse for Reading Recovery&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming Spring 2020 &#8211; or sooner!\u00a0 Our Dyslexic Children Watch the trailer&#8230;as Pete,\u00a0Dr. Kevin Gorman, Upper Arlington Director of Student Services,\u00a0Andrea Rowson, Upper Arlington Reading Specialist, and other experts speak <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/turnaround-at-upper-arlington-school-district-despite-dyslexia-every-child-can-learn-to-read\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,33],"tags":[1435,1434,1433,1308,421,1436],"class_list":["post-19640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dyslexia","category-reading","tag-brett-tingley","tag-central-ohio-branch-of-the-international-dyslexia-association","tag-cobida","tag-dyslexia","tag-parent-advocacy","tag-ua-kid"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19640"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25110,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19640\/revisions\/25110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}