Imagine that you have just received the full edpsych report for one of your students and now it is your responsibility to do something with it!

I have just completed benchmark assessments with many of my students. Once again I have a list of “look alike” words on the assessment protocol that the student needs to study and secure. I’m talking about words like “even and every,” “cold and could,” “said, and says,” and “for and from.” Sound familiar?

Dyslexia, a specific learning disability affecting 20% of our school population, can result in many of these children not being able to identify the differences between and among the sounds of letters in the alphabet. As a result, spelling is nearly impossible and pronouncing words correctly is difficult at best. So, writing and reading aloud are near-disasters for many. What does that mean for their future in the job market? It could be bleak!

My good friend and colleague, Jodie, sent this cartoon to me a few weeks ago. And as we make our way through these last weeks of school assessing our students from every angle, I think it is important that we listen to the message of this cartoon.