Nixa students with Dyslexia support and awareness page

04/09/2026

If your kiddo struggles with writing they could have dysgraphia. An OT evaluation can help determine that.

DYSGRAPHIA IN THE CLASSROOM
Note: Strategies should be individualized based on the student's IEP goals, OT recommendations, and current level of performance. Always document accommodations formally.

03/27/2026

An amazing woman and attorney.
Children with learning and or any disabilities deserve the best we can give and are often failed.

I’m so thankful for her role in helping us to get our child services in public education and the acknowledgment of dyslexia and dysgraphia as important to help a child conquer with help.

Our youngest child is also struggling academically due to adhd and possible learning differences. Last spring his iep was taken away much to our disagreement to do so.

I’ve had to again request full evaluation and wait a whole year to try to get him services. We meet next week to see if they believe he qualifies.

The system fails. He should have never been taken off his iep as he has regressed this year. Why do we fail kids who need more help. Notice I said the system fails. I’ve met and worked with many teachers that are putting all they have into these children. I am thankful for them. But the system fails kids.

Why did we have to fight for years and go to a formal hearing to get a school district to listen to us and provide needed services to a child who learns differently.

Thank for you Diane Dragan 🫶

01/15/2026

08/09/2025

Fluency is so important. It points to the struggles of a reader.

If you are not in the mood for math, you can calculate your child's "word per minute" data using this link:

https://calculator.academy/wcpm-calculator/

I am also attaching a helpful chart with the current fluency norms.

03/07/2025

If you are looking for screening, testing and intervention for dyslexia in this areas the Springfield center or dyslexia and learning is amazing!

What are you doing or have you found at home to support your struggling readers?

- we added listening to audio books each night at bedtime. Hearing language can help readers who struggle to comprehend more. Plus it helps increase a liking of books when a child feels frustration around reading. ❤️

01/29/2025

“Take a guess: What is the single most important year of an individual’s academic career?
The answer isn’t junior year of high school, or senior year of college.
It’s third grade.
What makes success in third grade so significant? It’s the year that students move from learning to read — decoding words using their knowledge of the alphabet — to reading to learn. The books children are expected to master are no longer simple primers but fact-filled texts…..Children who haven’t made the leap to fast, fluent reading begin at this moment to fall behind, and for most of them the gap will continue to grow.”
- Annie Murphy Paul

We need to identify those that struggle to read as early as possible.
Waiting until the third or fourth grade is too late.
Early identification and intervention is essential!
Don’t leave reading to chance!
You can read the full article here:👇👇
https://ideas.time.com/2012/09/26/why-third-grade-is-so-important-the-matthew-effect/

Quote in image: the awesome David Kinnane at and
You can read David’s article where this quote comes from here:👇👇
https://www.banterspeech.com.au/is-your-child-struggling-to-read-heres-what-works/

12/23/2024

It all goes together 💗

12/16/2024

What have you implemented at home to help your child with common struggles in reading when you have dyslexia?

12/02/2024

Missouri parents listen up ⬇️

A reminder from a recent training put on by Missouri Department of Education. The entire IDEA was built by and for parents of children with disabilities.

SP= State Plan for Special Education

12/02/2024

See Dragan Law Firm, LLC.

11/21/2024

It’s so important to catch reading difficulties early!

The “Matthew Effect” is the concept that the “rich get richer, and the poor get poorer”. In reading this term is used to describe how the gap between strong and struggling readers gets wider over time.

When children are good at reading, they tend to read more, which helps them get even better. But if a child struggles with reading, they might avoid it, which means they miss out on chances to improve. As a result, good readers keep getting better, while struggling readers fall further behind. The best way to close this gap is with early, effective interventions.