Brock and I were recently talking with our friend, Dr. Nicole Swedberg about how she came to focus in writing for dyslexic students when so many focus almost exclusively on helping students with reading. It was after finishing her advanced degree and training in several top structured literacy programs that she started working with a student who had finished many such programs and was a remediated reader. Although reading was now on grade-level, he couldn’t write! As an older student, too, so much of schooling was funneling into writing, that he was developing secondary problems like anxiety and work avoidance.  REMEDIATING THE READING BUT NOT THE WRITING As she soon discovered, this student was the tip of an iceberg. It’s surprisingly common for schools […]
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