Working through the five stages of dyslexia Dyxlexiaawarenessmonth
Dealing with my son’s diagnosis of dyslexia was like going through the five stages of grief. It took four years of sleepless nights and buckets of tears for both of us. There were so many days when I thought I’d never stop feeling broken-hearted for him, worrying that he would never learn to read or fail out of school by grade five and that it was all my fault.
Everywhere I looked, there was evidence to confirm my denial. I clung to factoids about kids posted on Facebook that reinforced the importance of outdoor time, guided play and engaged learning rather than literacy in kindergarten. I peppered my conversations with tidbits from groundbreaking studies in Iceland about not teaching kids to read until they are practically of dating age.
I hedged my bets and decided to have him assessed just to prove that there really wasn’t a problem. The school refused my request because he wasn’t on the “two-years-falling-behind list” and other kids had it worse. My frustration grew with each fruitless communication. At the start of grade two, his tutor broke the news to us: “This boy can’t read. He can’t write his last name. He is very far behind. You have to do something for him.
Thankfully, a saviour arrived during my son’s grade three year: A tutor who specialized in dyslexia helped my kid finally attach sounds to letters, allowed him to taste success and advocated for him at dreaded acronym-filled school meetings. This tutor/tear wiper advised us that grade three was a write-off, that he was being babysat and that we should start at a fresh school in September. She reminded me that she helped kids in grade 12 who couldn’t decode. Things could be worse.
Our family had beaten the odds, and people had noticed. As it turns out, I wasn’t alone on my little island of despair over dyslexia. Other families were embarrassed and shy, just like I’d been. I became the accidental poster child for advocating for kids with dyslexia.
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