“My daughter is smart and loves learning… so why isn’t she reading yet?”
“My son can build the most amazing and complicated structures… but he can’t recognize more than a few words.”
"But my child is too smart to be dyslexic…"
Sound familiar? Your child isn’t the only one. Read on.
My brilliant, creative, empathetic, observant, and (dare I say?) gifted kindergartener was “the best learner” his teacher had come across in her thirty years of teaching. By first grade he was beginning to fall behind his peers. By second grade he had an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) at school. And he still wasn’t reading.
We then discovered that our son is dyslexic and dysgraphic. My son and I worked with a private tutor every week for two years. It was worth it. Now a seventh grader, my son loves to read and, among other things, plans to be an author one day. He writes short-stories and is rarely without a book in his hand. He is still dyslexic and dysgraphic, but after cracking the code with scientifically proven teaching methods, his differently-wired brain rarely slows him down. In fact, he has many wonderful and surprising talents that are often found in people with dyslexia. Several years ago, I would never have thought I’d say this, but I wouldn’t change anything about my son’s learning differences.
I have taken my years of experience as an elementary school teacher with endorsements in Special Education and English, my knowledge as a parenting educator in child development, and my story as a mother of a differently wired child to begin teaching the same life-changing skills to other children who struggle to read and write. Reach out to me; let’s have a conversation about your amazing child and the struggles you’ve observed. Let’s teach him or her to read in a way that his or her brain learns best.
Susanne Harvey
deciphertutoring@gmail.com
