Tag: dyslexia
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Practice the IEP Meeting Before You Walk In (Free AI Prompt for Parents)
Here is the thing nobody tells you about IEP meetings. You will walk in prepared. You will have your folder. You will have rehearsed what you want to say in the shower for three weeks. And then someone will smile warmly across the table and say “We’re really pleased with how she’s responding,” and you…
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How to Read a Psychoeducational Evaluation Report
A parent-friendly walkthrough of how to actually read your child’s psychoeducational evaluation: what to read first, how to compare cognitive to academic, where the dyslexia signs hide, and how to know if the conclusions match the data.
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Dyslexia vs ADHD vs 2e: How to Tell What’s Going On
Dyslexia, ADHD, and twice-exceptional (2e) overlap in confusing ways. Here’s how the underlying scores tell them apart, and what to ask the evaluator when more than one is on your radar.
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What Is Structured Literacy? A Parent-Friendly Guide
Structured literacy is a teaching approach with five specific characteristics, not a single program. Here’s what it actually means, what it isn’t, and how to tell if your kid is getting it.
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i-Ready Scored 50% in Michigan’s K-3 Screener Review. Here’s the Line-by-Line.
This is the deep dive. If you want the higher-level take on what California and Michigan said about i-Ready as a reading screener, start with Part 1 of the series. Then come back here for the receipts. In December 2025, the Michigan Department of Education completed its consensus scoring of the i-Ready Assessment under MCL…
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When a Diagnostic Pretends to Be a Screener
This is the third post in a series. If you started here, you might want Part 1 for the overview of what California and Michigan said about i-Ready, and Part 2 for the line-by-line of Michigan’s review. This one is the personal one. The one where I tell you what i-Ready missed for my own…
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Two States Just Said i-Ready Doesn’t Cut It as a Reading Screener
If you’ve been on parent Facebook lately, you’ve probably seen the i-Ready takes piling up. Kids hate it. Parents hate it. Teachers were quietly recruited as spokesmodels and didn’t know what they were signing up for. The data showing it actually moves reading scores is, charitably, thin. But almost every one of those posts ends…
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TOWRE-2 Explainer
A Parent Field Guide TOWRE-2: What parents actually need to know. Test of Word Reading Efficiency, Second Edition The TOWRE-2 is the test that asks one question: how fast can your child read words against the clock? Not how accurately. Not how comprehensively. Just speed and automaticity. In dyslexia evaluation, that question is the one…
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KTEA-3 Explainer
A Parent Field Guide KTEA-3: What parents actually need to know. Kaufman Test of Educational Achievement, Third Edition The KTEA-3 is the achievement test you will see when an evaluator picks the Kaufman family of tools instead of the Wechsler. It measures the same domains as the WIAT-4 (reading, math, writing, oral language) but adds…
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GORT-5 Explainer
A Parent Field Guide GORT-5: What parents actually need to know. Gray Oral Reading Test, Fifth Edition The GORT-5 measures how your child reads aloud. It is the test most often given when a school or clinician wants to know how reading sounds in real time, with all the cracks showing. This guide walks through…