Support NJ Students with Dyslexia
ACTION ALERTS for NJ Families: Visit our NJ Legislation page for pressing action alerts where you can participate and make a difference. It only takes a few minutes to make a phone call or send an email. Click here for our latest action alert today!
WHAT CAN I DO RIGHT THIS MINUTE?
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- Familiarize yourself with the NJ dyslexia laws
- Learn about current bills focused on dyslexia
- Assembly Bill A1292 – Click to find the bills
- Send a letter and/or email to your local NJ legislators sharing your personal story and asking for their support
- Click to find your local legislators
- Click to find tips for writing your family story
- Make an appointment to meet with your local legislators
- Download and use DD-NJ’s helpful literature packet
- Encourage your US Representative to join the Bipartisan Congressional Dyslexia Caucus
- Click to find your representative
- Contact Your U.S. Congressional Representative and urge him to Support House Resolution on Dyslexia, #456 (click here to see copy of resolution)
- Click to find your representative
- Host a DD-NJ community roundtable discussion in your NJ county
- Share this information with 3 others and ask that they get involved in this movement also!
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- Join the NJ Branch of The International Dyslexia Association.
- Get involved at your local level:
- Inquire about your school district’s state mandated “Special Education Parent Advisory Group” and join. If they don’t have one yet, start your own. Technical assistance is available for free through the Statewide Parent Advocacy Network’s START Project.
- Get involved in your local PTA and help plan literacy events and/or fundraisers.
- Go to school board meetings and consider becoming a school board member.
- Join a variety of district committees, talk to other parents at local events, and discuss dyslexia with educators. Become a resource for others!
- Get educated about dyslexia
- Read literature about dyslexia. Books, such as Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr.
Sally Shaywitz, have been crucial for many parents in understanding our children’s
needs. Check out our Resources page for more good books and websites. - Check out IDA and NJ IDA websites and literature.
- Take a parent training course in reading intervention so that you can help your
child at home. - Familiarize yourself with the NJ Administrative Code on Special Education.
- Take a parent advocacy course through a group such as SPAN to understand your child’s rights.
- Get second opinions through private testing by a university, learning center, educational consultant, speech pathologist, developmental pediatrician, occupational therapist, physical therapist and/or other specialists.
- Speak to advocates, educators in private practice, and special education attorneys.
- Attend seminars, get on mailing lists, and network with others from support groups and LD organizations in your area.
- Read literature about dyslexia. Books, such as Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr.
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Attn High School Seniors:
Two scholarship opportunities for students with documented learning disabilities and/or ADHD from NCLD!
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Scholarships & Awards Archives - NCLD
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NCLD offers annual scholarships and awards that celebrate the work and achievements of those students and leaders working to improve the lives of the 1 in 5 with learning and attention issues.Parents Free Live Event this Sat Jan 9th!
Register at: embracedyslexiaseries.com/registration/
Embrace Dyslexia At Home: Parents Take Action this Saturday, January 9, 2021 starting at 10 am.
Five experts, including DD-NJ’s own Norma Francullo, will share current research and provide best practices and valuable tips around:
1. How to work with your child's school to get appropriate, effective services;
2. How to support your child's social and emotional wellbeing;
3. How to effectively advocate for your child's specific needs;
4. How to build a stronger relationship with your child;
And More!
>> For Parents of HS & College Students <<
Jan 9th at 12:00pm ... Elizabeth Hamblet is hosting a one-time-only FREE presentation of her most-popular talk on preparing students with disabilities for successful college transition.
The free talk will be available via her FB group for parents. It will only be viewable in her group (make sure you answer the group joining questions to be admitted to the group).
This event will not be recorded for later viewing.
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The NJ Branch of IDA presents WIFFT! Winter Institute Food for Thought Virtual Conference
Saturday, February 6, 2021
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM EST
A full line up of excellent online sessions! Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/winter-institute-food-for-thought-2021-tickets-133621823471
Winter Institute Food for Thought 2021
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Low-cost VIRTUAL seminars for a great cause!Check out the recording of Neuropsychological or Language/Literacy Assessment: Which One is Right for my Child? webinar, which is available for on-demand viewing. You will compare common neuropsychological vs. language/literacy assessment batteries, discuss assessment components relevant to intervention and why remediation goals should be a vital part of every assessment, and more. Presenter is Tatyana Elleseff, MA, CCC-SLP, of Smart Speech Therapy LLC.
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"DPI has found several districts, including Wake and Bladen counties and the agency itself, not to be in compliance with federal requirements....The changes come after Literacy Moms N.C. filed 18 complaints against the state and individual school systems accusing them of not being in compliance with the Child Find provisions in the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act."
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Dyslexic advocacy group forces N.C. changes. Schools ordered to do more to help kids.
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RALEIGH — The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction and the Wake County school system have been ordered to make changes that advocates hope will improve services for children withIf your district is telling you they cannot evaluate or complete testing for students suspected of having a disability, please know the New Jersey Department of Education says this:
3. Are districts required to comply with initial evaluation/ triennial reevaluation timelines even if the district is beginning the school year with all-remote instruction?
Yes. The requirements for timelines and activities related to referral, identification, and evaluation remain in effect. Therefore, districts must complete evaluations/reevaluations within the timelines set forth by law and regulations even if the district is delivering solely remote instruction....
Read more here www.nj.gov/education/reopening/faqs/#sped
Happening in one hour -- details below!Join The Reading League's Coffee and Tea with the NRP on Saturday, December 19th 9-10 AM as we conclude the paired study between the National Reading Panel and The Reading League's September/October Journal: Report of the National Reading Panel: 20 Years Later
The Reading League Pennsylvania will facilitate the discussion on Teacher Education.
Joining us will be an esteemed panel of representatives from higher education colleges/universities.
Zoom details here:
Meeting ID: 849 3058 3317
Passcode: 111558
Link: us02web.zoom.us/j/84930583317?pwd=K3NNUHZ1c2ZIbTRrcC95c3gyZDNzdz09&fbclid=IwAR1ovy8JpXQA2Mw2VJaWj...
“The vast majority of students with low reading achievement have preventable problems: with explicit, evidence-based instruction, they would learn to read.” ~ from a great piece [long read] by Sharon Vaughn and Jack M. Fletcher in the new issue of American Educator.
www.aft.org/ae/winter2020-2021/vaughn_fletcher
Identifying and Teaching Students with Significant Reading Problems
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“No child is born a reader; all children in literate societies have to be taught to read.”Is literacy being talked about in your communities? Do you have links to video of BOE meetings or public events where this is coming up? Emily Hanford is looking for examples of reading instruction being discussed at school board meetings or in other public forums. DM @ehanford or send an email to ehanford@apmreports.org.
How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers
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For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...Check us out on Instagram!
