Why Public Schools Struggle to Help Kids with Dyslexia – Part 2

Written by Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Published on April 23, 2014

Blog Posts, Dyslexia, Dyslexia and Parenting, Dyslexia and Schools

Our last article analyzed the many reasons why public schools struggle to adequately identify and support dyslexic students. Since publishing, we’ve heard valuable feedback from parents describing their own particular “horror stories” with trying to secure treatment and accommodations for their children by navigating public school bureaucracy.

Professor Ruth Colker, one of the country’s leading constitutional law and disability scholars, helped us construct the graphic below.  This graphic illustrates the slow, bureaucratic (and often unsuccessful) process required to classify a child to receive a public school’s tax-supported special education services and/or accommodations.

Click to expand imagegraphic showing the process for a child to receive accommodations at school

Don’t Delay Evaluating Your Child!

By comparison, our online language processing evaluation can be scheduled and completed in a matter of weeks, and it typically results in not only a diagnosis that can be used for school accommodations but also a clear understanding for parents of the cause(s) of their child’s difficulties and an outline of what research-backed treatments are likely to help.  Click here to learn more about that process.

You can contact us with any questions or concerns at Info@lexercise.com or call us at 1-919-747-4557 for help for your struggling reader.

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Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Sandie Barrie Blackley, MA/CCC

Sandie is a Fellow of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, a former university graduate school faculty member, and a co-founder of Lexercise. Sandie has been past president of the North Carolina Speech, Hearing & Language Association and has received two clinical awards, the Public Service Award and the Clinical Services Award. She served two terms on the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists.

As a faculty member at the University of North Carolina Greensboro, Sandie developed and taught structured literacy courses, supervised practicum for speech-language pathology graduate students, and coordinated a federally funded personnel preparation grant. In 2009, Sandie and her business partner, Chad Myers co-founded Mind InFormation, Inc./ Lexercise to provide accessible and scalable structured literacy services for students across the English-speaking world.