My 8-year-old daughter is dyslexic as well as inattentive ADHD. She attends a private school and is on an ISP. After reviewing her recent report card, she broke out into tears at the low marks she received. She was especially heartbroken over getting the lowest possible marks in two categories: “listens/follows directions” and “shows effort.” Do you have any recommendations on how to address this with the teacher?

My 6-year-old daughter hates school and always has. She scores terribly on standardized tests, she’s behind in reading, she throws tantrums at home over homework, and she constantly writes number and letters backward. We’ve asked multiple educators if she could be dyslexic and they tell us no, that she’d be father behind if she was. I just want to help her, but the resources seem hard to find. Can you possibly help us know where to turn for help?

Our son is in 3rd grade and on an IEP. He has been working with an Orton-Gillingham (OG) specialist for 6 months now. My hope was that the frustration level at home would subside, but it has gotten worse and it is exhausting and impacting our family. What should our expectations be as far as seeing results from OG?

I am writing to see if you can give me an opinion regarding my son. He is 10 years old and is going to a school with a very good program for dyslexic kids. He has his struggles with dyslexia, which is understandable. But he has a glass-half-empty personality; or in other words, he projects failure on himself. Do you have any suggestions as to what my wife and I could do to change his attitude and general demeanor at completing tasks that cause him "work"?

I am a teacher and am wondering if practicing reading will or will not help a student with dyslexia? We have a parent who continuously tells us that no amount of practice reading will improve her daughter's ability to read. This student's mother is under the impression that her child cannot do any reading on her own. I had indicated that any reading would be good for the student, and the mother told me that this statement was absolutely false.

My son is a 9-year-old 4th grader. He was diagnosed in first grade with dyslexia. He has since been in a dyslexic program where he received services five days a week for 45-minutes a day. I was approached this year by our new first-year dyslexia teacher and asked if I would be okay with him only getting 30-minutes, four days a week during his classroom reading time. I was also told he was almost done with the program, so that was her reasoning as to why she wanted to shorten his time. My question is legally how long should he receive services?

I have a 7-year-old going into the 2nd grade who has the indicators of dyslexia but can't be formally diagnosed due to his age. I see the signs, reading words backward, calculating correctly but writing the numbers backward. He struggles to read, decode, blend. I hate seeing him cry when we go through a book. What do I do? I want to see my son actively improve and catch up with his peers. This whole process is very complicated and stressful as I want to make the best decisions for my son that equips him for success.

My 8-year-old was just diagnosed with dyslexia. We are looking at moving her to a new school district to get reading intervention through Project Read. Do you have experience with how Project Read, and how successful it is for helping close the achievement gap for dyslexic students? Specifically, we're wondering if Project Read at school would be able to replace outside tutoring, or if she would still need Orton-Gillingham-based tutoring outside of school?

I have been looking at these fonts but can't say how good these are for use in documents that dyslexic people read. Here they are: Spartan MB,Gothic A1. Are these good fonts? Thank you for reviewing and assessing these.

My daughter is 10 and is at the end of her 5th grade year headed to her 6th. We (myself and her teachers) have suspected she has dyslexia since she was in 2nd grade. She has been doing well with the help she gets in the classroom so far. Everyone told me to wait for a 504 Plan or IEP until she really needed it. With 6th grade fast approaching, she will be switching classes and will have 6 different teachers. Now is time for a 504 Plan and they told me I need to get a medical diagnosis for her and I can’t seem to find a place that does testing.