Sample Misconceptions

• "Some students just have to put more effort into their reading"

• "The curriculum has just gotten harder, your child will catch up. Children develop at different rates"

• "We just need to put the right book in the hand of each child"

• "They will grow out of it, some children are just late bloomers"

• "Your child's attention issues and executive functioning skills are impacting reading, it is not dyslexia "

• "Here we go, now everyone has dyslexia" 

• "I have worked with dyslexics, your child is just performing too high to be dyslexic"

• "Decoding is not impacting your child's performance on benchmarks" 

• "Your child does not reverse letters when she writes, it can't be dyslexia"

• "We cannot diagnosis dyslexia until 3rd grade"

• "The child comes from a poverty"