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Avoiding Summer Learning Loss: Tips for Parents What is “Summer Slide”? To students on vacation, it sounds like a playground attraction. In reality, “Summer Slide” – or summer learning loss – is what happens when children don’t engage in academic skills over the...
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For many students, opening a book feels less like starting an adventure and more like facing an impenetrable wall of code. For those with dyslexia or significant reading struggles, the English language is a particularly difficult mountain to...
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🌟 Celebrating Dyslexics: The Creative Minds Who Think Differently October is Dyslexia Awareness Month — a time to recognize and celebrate the creativity, resilience, and brilliance of individuals who are dyslexic. 💡 Thinking Differently: The Dyslexic Advantage...
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Summer break is a time for relaxation, vacations, and fun. However, for many students, it also leads to what educators call the “summer slide”—a significant learning loss that occurs when academic skills are not practiced during the break. Research...
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This is “Mena”. She is in the fifth grade in a Rhode Island public school. She couldn’t read. But Mena is very lucky. How is that possible? Read on… It takes a good advocate, the right approach, and financial support… Mena’s mother...
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By Lisa Bigney M.A., M.Ed, RITES Co-Director, Certified Dyslexia Interventionist What is Dyslexia? Is your child among the approximately 20% of the population who struggle to read? If so, your child may have dyslexia. Dyslexia is a type of learning difference that...
