Writing in the Plano (TX, US) Courier, Jim Kilpatrick has a back-to-school feature about kids with dyslexia. He contrast the need for parent-teacher meetings and other activities needed to ensure a good start for students with the more usual purchasing of materials and clothing that virtually everyone experiences. These issues are especially important, according to Mr. Kirkpatrick, for adolescents. He focuses on the experiences of two families.
“It’s very hard at 15 to be different, to be singled out and to be identified as anything other than like everybody else,” Shannon Knox, co-creator of Impacting Dyslexic Education Awareness and Support, said. “That is the key to life when you are a teenager.”
It is the mothers and fathers at this point who help their child get off on the right foot that first day at school, said Marci Soulakis-Orr, the other half to the Plano based support group for families of dyslexic students.
Link to Mr. Kirkpatrick’s story (link is good for 14 days, I think).
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