DYSLEXIA AWARENESS MONTH: DID YOU KNOW?

By Dr. Sheila Clonan

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month.  It is also ADHD Awareness month and Down Syndrome Awareness month—so much awesomeness packed into 31 little days!  We’ll address those later, but in this post, we want to play a little “Did you know?” game, raise awareness of issues pertaining to dyslexia, and let local readers know about some amazing upcoming events.
 
Did you know that at least 1 in 5 students is estimated to struggle with dyslexia, a neurological disorder characterized by difficulties with phonological processing that impair accurate and fluent decoding?

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