{"id":922,"date":"2021-03-10T21:19:14","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T21:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/blog\/?p=922"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:27:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T19:27:33","slug":"dyslexia-why-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/dyslexia\/dyslexia-why-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyslexia: Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Today I asked an IEP team why they thought the student we were meeting about wasn\u2019t making progress in <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-157077-2960416.cloudwaysapps.com\/spelling-goals\/\">spelling<\/a>, despite her progress in <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-157077-2960416.cloudwaysapps.com\/our-brains-were-not-built-for-reading-confusing-p-q-b\/\">reading<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>One quick silent moment passed by, which wasn\u2019t really long enough for any true self-reflection, and the answer was something like this:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>\u2018She rushes\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>&#8216;She doesn\u2019t pay attention\u2019<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong><em>&#8216;She needs to work on vocabulary&#8217; <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">&#8216;<strong><span><i>She doesn&#8217;t pay attention to context\u2019<\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now go back and read those comments again, do you notice what pronoun they are using? They are starting every sentence with&nbsp;<em>she.<\/em>&nbsp;Not&nbsp;<em>we<\/em>, but&nbsp;<em>she<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next word or two words is a verb (<em>needs to work, doesn\u2019t pay<\/em>) all of which carry the connotation that the student is at fault for failing to improve in spelling. These words put the onus back on the student.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since there was evidence that this particular student did make significant progress in both reading and math, why would she choose not \u2018focus, try, or be less careless\u2019 just for spelling? More importantly, why did it take the IEP team less than 15 seconds to come to that conclusion?&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;It doesn\u2019t make sense \u2013 but it does explain what the IEP believes is the problem \u2013<em> it\u2019s not the instruction, it\u2019s the student.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-157077-2960416.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Dyslexia-Why-Looking-Beyond-Blaming-the-Student-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Dyslexia-Why - Looking Beyond Blaming the Student\" class=\"wp-image-930\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I asked an IEP team why they thought the student we were meeting about wasn\u2019t making progress in spelling,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[7,4,59,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dyslexia","8":"tag-advocacy-2","9":"tag-iep","10":"tag-instruction","11":"tag-spelling"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1510,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions\/1510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dyslexiatraininginstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}