Swope Dyslexia Services

Awww - I just got this text from the parent of a kid I've been tutoring for about 1.5 years! Yay!!! 🥰🥹🙂

If kids with dyslexia get in the habit of guessing at words, their reading accuracy and comprehension will decline as reading material gets more complex. It can take months, or even years, of focused instruction to break this bad habit. We need to teach kids with dyslexia to properly decode and read words, not guess at them! www.DyslexiaConnect.com

6 Dyslexia Facts! www.DyslexiaConnect.com

This is an incredibly common issue with kids who have dyslexia! Bright kids who have dyslexia often read by memorizing words and guessing. This leads to increasingly poor reading accuracy and comprehension. To counteract this tendency, we must teach them to phonetically decode words while reading, instead of guessing! www.DyslexiaConnect.com

I love this infographic!

Standardized reading test results can be discouraging for parents and caretakers of kids with dyslexia. This graphic provides some food for thought that should help keep testing results in perspective! www.DyslexiaConnect.com

This a good infographic about all the components that affect Reading.

Thank you, Georgia Ryan, for this wonderful graphic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE3DqJP-nkI&t=25s

What Is Dyslexia? | Dyslexia Explained As Dr. Gillis says, children with dyslexia are just as smart as other children. What is dyslexia like for kids? Our reading expert, Margie Gillis, EdD, expla...

Welcome to my page about Dyslexic learners and services to support them!

I'm a licensed Oregon teacher with 10 years of classroom experience. Now my passion is to help struggling readers become confident, lifelong learners! I offer screening and tutoring services for students with Dyslexia.

I work with kids one-on-one either online or in-person. Come back more often for info about Dyslexia, how to recognize it, and interventions that work.