One in Five
How We're Fighting for Our Dyslexic Kids in a System That's Failing Them

This. Is really important. We are experiencing much of what this author writes about. Our school system is not set up to meet the needs of SO MANY KIDS with reading disabilities- specifically dyslexia. I have been floored at the time and the money needed to meet my daughter’s basic need- to learn to......more

Micki Boas', by virtue of a technical error made by a school district's attorney in a due process matter, has opened a doorway into the very challenging process parents face when attempting to help their Dyslexic children in public schools across the country. Parents are routinely ignored, gaslit, b......more

I was really hopeful when it came to this book. The school system does fail many children, but I didn't find this book to be an accurate depiction of this. The author, herself, mentions how charter schools play by different rules, and despite multiple lawyers suggesting that she move her child to a......more

It's estimated that one in five children has dyslexia. My daughter is one of them. As an Orton-Gillingham trained reading interventionist and mom of a dyslexic child, I was so eager to read this book and learn some new information that would benefit my child, my students, and the parents of my stude......more

This book really opened my eyes to the maddening situations that parents can find themselves in when advocating for their dyslexic children. Knowing that 20% of all schoolchildren are likely to have dyslexia, why aren't schools set up for them? This is not new information. Is it inertia? Not caring?......more