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1. 10 Steps To Take When
Your Smart Child Is Falling
Behind In School
Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable

2. Lucie M. Curtiss, R.N.
Douglas C. Curtiss, M.D,
FAAP
• Dyslexic, Best-selling Author, Nurse,
Entrepreneur
• Mother of a Successful Dyslexic
• Cofounder of Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable
• Yale-trained pediatrician
• Best-selling author
• Father of a Successful Dyslexic
• Cofounder of Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable

3. Step 3
The Right Accommodations
In School
Dyslexic AND UN-Stoppable

4. Mistake 3
• Not speaking up to help your child

5. First Decision
• Get formal help through school
• Get some extra support for your child without any
formal identification

6. Formal Help Through School
AKA - The School’s Alphabet
Soup

7. Some Of The Acronyms
• I.E.P. - Individualized Education Plan*
• P.P.T. - Planning and Placement Team*
•*under Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (IDEA)
• 504 Plan - Accommodations based on a
disability**
•**under Section 504 of Rehabilitation Act
• RTI - Response To Intervention

8. Special Education
Services
• Must have one of 13 specific conditions
• Includes - Specific Learning Disabilities (like
dyslexia), ADHD, Speech / Language disability,
Traumatic Brain Injury, etc
• Link to the full list

9. To Get Special Education
Services
• Make a formal request in writing for an evaluation for
special education services
• Gather all supporting documentation

10. To Get Special Education
Services (cont.)
• The school must respond to you within 60 days
(according to IDEA, but states may differ)
• If the school denies you, they must give you the
process to appeal

11. 504 plan - modifications
• Based on a specific condition
• ADHD
• Dyslexia
• Dysgraphia
• Hearing and speech issues
• To institute a 504 plan, obtain a letter from your
pediatrician, a psychologist, or some other
professional stating your child has a given condition.

12. Types of Modifications
• Oral testing
• Untimed tests
• Shortened tests - fewer spelling words, fewer math
problems
• Use of computers
• Use of dictation software

13. How to decide what to
ask for:
• Ask for accommodations to help your child’s greatest
difficulty (e.g. - FeZander’s reading).
• Ask for accommodations for the issues that would
give a quick win. (non-timed tests)
• If you have a great relationship with the teacher, she
may offer accommodations without you asking

14. Less Formal
Accommodations
(this is where a great relationship with the teacher helps)
• Teacher email’s assignments home
• Teacher checks your child’s planner
• Computer use
• Keep instructions simple
• Write assignment on board early in day
• Give assignments verbally
• Give handout with assignment already written out.

15. Step 4
Accommodations You Can
Do At Home
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16. Mistake 4
• Not realizing how much you can do

17. Help for Fine Motor Skills
• We’re going to discuss this during
a future step dealing with “Energy
Leaks”

18. Help for Writing
• The right pencil
• Pencil grips
• Graph paper
• Wide ruled lines (not college rule)
• Reinforced side for binder

19. Pencil with an easy grip
This pencil has a special finish that makes it easy
to grip and less likely to slip in your child’s hand.

20. Wider Pencils

21. Triangle shaped pencils

22. Consider Pencil Grips
Another option to help your child with gripping a pencil is to use pencil
grips. These have a few couple advantages:
● They are wider than a typical pencil which helps children with
smaller hands
● They offer a non-slip grip
● They can be interchanged from one pencil to the next.

23. Graph Paper
Helps with alignment of numbers for math

24. Graph Paper
Helps with alignment of numbers for math

25. Help for Spelling
• Get spelling words early (e.g. - get
them over summer to practice for
next year)
• Break it up into smaller bits
• Use our techniques from last week
(color, movement, action, etc.)

26. Technology
• Dictation software (Dragon)
• Learn keyboarding (YouTube)
• Smartpens
• Voice message in phone

27. Technology
• Taking picture of board
• Watch with vibrating alarm
• Audiobooks

28. Help for Organization
• Plastic color
dividers and
folders

29. Help for Organization
• Different colors
for different
subjects

30. Help for Organization
• Organize AM and PM class
material together
• Get 2 copies of books, etc.

31. Questions?

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