4 Steps for Navigating Dyslexia Across Departments
October 1, 2019
By: Danielle Simbajon
Source: Frontline Blog
Dyslexia, a neuro-biological disorder that affects language processing, has no bearing on intelligence, but complicates a student’s ability to learn by making both reading and verbal communication difficult. Because dyslexia notoriously flies under the radar, a child can go years with the disorder unidentified and with no answer for why schoolwork is so difficult ― or worse, with teachers and parents assuming that laziness is to blame for poor performance in school.
Yet, even once dyslexia is identified, many factors are at play and educators face the difficulty of determining the best plan to support that student.