09/05/2026
📚🧠 DYSLEXIA & READING DIFFICULTIES: RESOURCES FOR PARENTS & EDUCATORS
When a child struggles to read, figuring out where to start can be overwhelming.
Dyslexia is not a lack of intelligence, motivation, effort, or exposure to books. And when a child continues to struggle with reading, “just read more” is not an intervention.
Fortunately, we know a tremendous amount about how the brain learns to read—and there are some AMAZING resources available to families and educators. ❤️📖
🔹 International Dyslexia Association (IDA)
Dyslexia, Structured Literacy, assessment, intervention, and provider information.
🔗 https://dyslexiaida.org/
🔹 Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity
Research-based information about dyslexia, identification, intervention, and dyslexic strengths.
🔗 https://dyslexia.yale.edu/
🔹 Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR)
Reading research plus FREE instructional resources and student activities.
🔗 https://fcrr.org/
🔹 Reading Rockets
Excellent parent- and teacher-friendly information about phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and struggling readers.
🔗 https://www.readingrockets.org/
🔹 The Reading League
Science of Reading and evidence-aligned literacy resources.
🔗 https://www.thereadingleague.org/
🔹 Reading Universe
Practical information about how children learn to read and how reading should be taught.
🔗 https://readinguniverse.org/
🔹 Understood.org
Parent-friendly information about dyslexia, learning differences, accommodations, and school support.
🔗 https://www.understood.org/
📚 RESOURCES
🔹 Decoding Dyslexia Florida
Information, advocacy, awareness, and support for Florida families navigating dyslexia.
🔗 https://www.decodingdyslexiafl.org/
🔹 REED Charitable Foundation
Structured Literacy and Orton-Gillingham training, education, and resources for teachers and families.
🔗 https://reedcharitablefoundation.org/
🎓 Training opportunities:
🔗 https://reedcharitablefoundation.org/training-courses/
👨👩👧 Parent resources:
🔗 https://reedcharitablefoundation.org/parent-resources/
🔹 Cox Campus – Rollins Center for Language & Literacy
One of my FAVORITES because of the tremendous amount of FREE professional learning available to educators, tutors, interventionists, and families. ❤️
🔗 https://coxcampus.org/
📚 Cox Campus Structured Literacy Program:
🔗 https://coxcampus.org/cox-campus-structured-literacy-program/
🔹 The Lucy Project
A Florida nonprofit working to help children with dyslexia and other reading difficulties access evidence-based literacy intervention while providing education and resources for families and educators.
🔗 https://www.lucyproject.org/
📚 Resource Library:
🔗 https://www.lucyproject.org/resources
📖 A FEW BOOKS WORTH READING
• Overcoming Dyslexia — Dr. Sally Shaywitz
• Speech to Print — Dr. Louisa Moats
• Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties — Dr. David Kilpatrick
• Proust and the Squid — Dr. Maryanne Wolf
🚩 And perhaps one of the most important things parents need to hear:
You do not have to simply “wait and see.”
Persistent difficulty with phonemic awareness, decoding, spelling, reading fluency, or learning and remembering sound-symbol relationships deserves attention.
Early identification matters.
Early intervention matters.
And the TYPE of instruction matters.
Look for instruction grounded in Structured Literacy—explicit, systematic, cumulative teaching of the sound system of language, phonics, syllable patterns, morphology, spelling, vocabulary, syntax, and the structures that support fluent reading and comprehension.
🧠 Our struggling readers don’t need less challenging ideas.
❤️ They need better access to the written word.
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Sometimes the most powerful thing we can give a family is simply knowing where to start.
