{"id":2102,"date":"2010-07-26T14:15:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T18:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=2102"},"modified":"2016-11-07T17:44:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T21:44:31","slug":"dyslexia-is-not-a-learning-disability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/dyslexia-is-not-a-learning-disability\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Dyslexia is Not a Learning Disability&#8221;"},"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=\"%22Dyslexia%20is%20Not%20a%20Learning%20Disability%22\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><blockquote><p>My granddaughter is in 2nd grade. She cannot read.<\/p>\n<p>She was diagnosed with dyslexia by a psychologist and a special educational consultant. At present she is receiving 15 minutes a day with the Special Educator.<\/p>\n<p>When we requested tutoring with the Special\u00a0Educator, we were advised that dyslexia is not considered a learning disability.\u00a0 What we should do next?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px; float: center;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/images\/bs\/girl.struggle.homework.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although the special education law specifically lists &#8220;dyslexia&#8221; as a learning disability (20 U.S.C 1401 (30)), <strong>it&#8217;s a mistake to fight with school officials about labels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>You need answers to these questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Did the school find your granddaughter eligible for special education?<\/li>\n<li>Does she have an IEP?<\/li>\n<li>Is there a private school for kids with dyslexia in your area?<\/li>\n<li>Are there tutors who are specially trained to teach dyslexic children in your area?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Your course of action depends, in part, on the answers to these questions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line:<\/strong> Your granddaughter must be taught how to read by a teacher or tutor who has specialized training in <span class=\"BlackBodyText\">Multi-Sensory Structured Language Instruction<\/span>. (<a title=\"Fact Sheets about Dyslexia and Multisensory Language Instruction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.interdys.org\/FactSheets.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Fact sheets about dyslexia and multisensory instruction<\/span><\/a>)<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Your granddaughter will not learn to read by spending 15 minutes or 15 hours with a special educator who does not have the training necessary to teach kids with dyslexia to read. (see <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><a title=\"Best Kept Secret in Special Education\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=513\">The Best Kept Secret in Special Education<\/a><\/span> and <a title=\"No Offense But It's Alarming That So Many Children are Not Learning to Read\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=116\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">No Offense, But It&#8217;s Alarming That So Many Children Are Not Learning to Read<\/span><\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>You and the child&#8217;s parents need to educate yourselves about dyslexia and how kids with dyslexia learn to read. Begin by reading articles in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/heath\/dyh.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Doing Your Homework<\/span><\/a> series by Suzanne Whitney. Sue is an expert in dyslexia and other language learning disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Contact the<\/span> <a title=\"International Dyslexia Association (IDA)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.interdys.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">International Dyslexia Association (IDA)<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"color: #000000;\">for a list of schools and trained tutors in your community<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The <a title=\"Scottish Rite Learning Centers\" href=\"http:\/\/childrensdyslexiacenters.org\/Home.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Scottish Rite Learning Centers<\/span><\/a> <\/span>provide free tutoring for children with dyslexia, and training for tutors.<br \/>\nLearn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/childrensdyslexiacenters.org\/Home.aspx\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/childrensdyslexiacenters.org\/Home.aspx<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ensuring that a child with dyslexia receives the educational remediation needed to be a proficient reader isn&#8217;t easy. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pete Wright was diagnosed with dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, and &#8220;minimal brain dysfunction&#8221; in 1954, when he was 8 years old. In the 1950&#8217;s, educators didn&#8217;t know about dyslexia or how to teach dyslexic kids to read, write and do math. <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">(<a title=\"Three Generations at the US Supreme Court\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/advoc\/articles\/orton.html\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Three Generations at the U.S. Supreme Court<\/span><\/a>)<\/span><\/span>. Sadly, with schools insisting that &#8220;dyslexia is not a learning disability,&#8221; this changed in most parts of the country.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 years ago, Pete&#8217;s parents educated themselves and made sure he received the remediation he needed to be a proficient reader. In those days, it was much harder to find information about dyslexia and appropriate remediation. If you educate yourself and are determined, your granddaughter can get the remediation she needs to be a proficient reader.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t give up &#8211; the stakes are too high!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My granddaughter is in 2nd grade. She cannot read. She was diagnosed with dyslexia by a psychologist and a special educational consultant. At present she is receiving 15 minutes a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/dyslexia-is-not-a-learning-disability\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[33,136,161],"tags":[1308,499,1300,189],"class_list":["post-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading","category-strategies","category-teachers","tag-dyslexia","tag-labels","tag-reading","tag-specific-learning-disability"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3579,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions\/3579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}