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Top 50 Best Dyslexia Blogs

50 Best Dyslexia Blog Sites!
50 Best Dyslexia Blog Sites!

Reading Success Plus has been recognized in top 50 best dyslexia blogs on the planet!

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  • Google reputation and Google search ranking
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Dyslexia Practitioner Joins Team

New Dyslexia Practitioner

Mrs. Patti Krieger, Certified Dyslexia Practitioner
Mrs. Patti Krieger, Certified Dyslexia Practitioner

Reading Success Plus is pleased to announce the addition of Mrs. Patti Krieger, International Dyslexia Association (I.D.A.) certified Dyslexia Practitioner, to their growing tutoring staff.  Mrs. Krieger is a Grand Valley State University graduate, and has over 3000 hours tutoring people of all ages, from young children to adults.

Specialized Training

Mrs. Krieger initially received her training at the Children’s Dyslexia Center of West Michigan, an IMSLEC accredited program. Over her 8 years with the CDC, she received basic and advanced Orton-Gillingham training. She worked at the Children’s Dyslexia Center as a tutor and supervisor, until they closed in May 2016.  She continued her career at SLD Read, where she received additional Orton-Gillingham training, and was a tutor and master tutor. Additionally, Mrs. Krieger was a Reading Interventionist for New Branches Charter Academy, where she was trained in the Susan Barton Reading & Spelling System, levels 1- 5 (another Orton-Gillingham program). She is experienced in observation, evaluation and mentoring tutors, as well as working with student, parents, and educators.

Mrs. Krieger’s experience, not only as a tutor, but also as a Sunday School Teacher, PTA President, substitute teacher and stay-at-home mom (of a child with a learning disability), has uniquely prepared her to tutor children of all ages. Mrs. Krieger strives to make tutoring educational, visual and fun for her students. She is also passionate about educating families about dyslexia and is looking forward to the next chapter in her career with Reading Success Plus!

Dyslexia Facts

  • Dyslexia is genetic, a parent with dyslexia has a 50/50 chance of having a child with dyslexia.
  • Dyslexia makes reading, writing, spelling and sometimes math difficult.
  • Students with Dyslexia usually have normal, and oftentimes, high intelligence.
  • Many families struggle for years trying a variety of programs to help their child.
  • Children do not outgrow dyslexia.

Reading Success Plus

Struggling readers and dyslexic students must have specialized tutoring to become successful readers. Reading Success Plus offers tutoring in reading and spelling, as well as handwriting, comprehension, keyboarding and math. There is hope for your struggling reader or dyslexic student! Learn more at www.ReadingSuccessPlus.com.

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Specialized Tutoring Center Opens

Readed Success Plus Specialized Tutoring

Specialized Tutoring –

Reading Success Plus opens a tutoring center for struggling readers and students with dyslexia. A first of its kind in West Michigan, Reading Success Plus features specialized tutoring programs including the highly acclaimed Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing (LiPS) program, Barton Reading & Spelling program, as well as the highly-specialized Orton-Gillingham math tutoring.  The Orton-Gillingham method has been available since the 1940’s, and teaches students using all learning modalities to imprint reading and math into their long term memory.

Struggling Reader or Dyslexic?

If your student is a struggling reader, they may be dyslexic.  Dr. Sally Shaywitz at the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity has found that 80-90% of all individuals identified as having a learning disability are dyslexic. According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Summary Report in 1994, dyslexia is the most common cause of reading difficulties in elementary age school children. Additionally, their research indicates that dyslexia affects at least 20 percent (1 in 5), of our population, with varying degrees of severity. You might be surprised to learn that dyslexia is the most researched of all learning disabilities.  Unfortunately, it is also the leading cause of reading failure and school dropouts in our nation. The good news is, with intervention, a person with dyslexia can learn to read!

Dyslexia Facts

  • Dyslexia is genetic, a parent with dyslexia has a 50/50 chance of having a child with dyslexia.
  • Dyslexia makes reading, writing, spelling and sometimes math difficult.
  • Students with Dyslexia usually have normal, and oftentimes, high intelligence.
  • Many families struggle for years trying a variety of programs to help their child.
  • Children do not outgrow dyslexia.

Reading Success Plus

Struggling readers and dyslexic students must have specialized tutoring in order to become successful readers. Reading Success Plus offers tutoring in reading and spelling, as well as handwriting, comprehension, keyboarding and math. There is hope for your struggling reader or dyslexic student!

Owners Anne Kloth, and her son Lawrence Kloth, also a dyslexic, and now Hope College graduate, founded Reading Success Plus to help students attain the skills to reach their full potential. “We’ve been there, and tried everything. We know there is hope for people struggling with dyslexia, because these programs work!”

See www.ReadingSuccessPlus.com to learn more.

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The Gift of Dyslexia; A Student’s Perspective

Dyslexia as a Child –

The Gift of Dyslexia
Right Brain Gifts of Dyslexia

Do you remember round robin reading? You know, the kind where the teacher elects one student to start reading, and then that student gets to pick the next student to continue reading. I was such a poor reader I would struggle to sound out every word. It would take me at least twice as long as my peers. It was just painful. To make matters worse, as children would do, my peers would pick me, over and over again – with no one to rescue me.  At the time, I didn’t consider dyslexia a gift.

Finding my Strengths

I am the typical dyslexic who has gone through the struggles. When I was young, I struggled mightily doing simple tasks, such as spelling words, learning my math facts and reading fluently. When other kids were doing tremendously well, it made me feel like something was wrong with me. I felt this way for many years. Everyone was moving ahead of me, and I was still stuck at the same level. Even in 7th and 8th grade, I was having a brutal time reading. I was made to read out loud and worse yet, had to participate in the spelling bee. The teacher read the word “lemon” for me to spell, but I thought the word “lime”. I even spelled lime correctly. Then, everyone laughed at me because the word was “lemon”. When I sat down, I felt like an idiot. I also remember sitting in Spanish class not having a clue about what was going on. I had enough trouble learning English, never mind learning Spanish. This was a long and painful time for me, but through my struggles, I eventually found my gifts. 

Gift of Dyslexia

While dyslexia certainly made school difficult, the gift of dyslexia has allowed me to see the world in a different light. The gifts of dyslexia are as varied as being a great athlete, poet, philosopher, musician, scientist, politician, artist or entrepreneur. Dyslexia causes individuals to learn what it takes to become great at their craft, including perseverance, hard work, determination, empathy for others, charisma, outside-the-box thinking, ability to hyper-focus and a great imagination. These traits are generally not graded, let alone appreciated, in school. However, if dyslexics can survive the frustration, shaming, and bullying so common in their school years, the gift of dyslexia can help them become stars later in life.

Dyslexia and My Future

It has taken me a long time to realize, that despite my struggles with dyslexia, I have great strengths. These strengths have propelled me to work harder than all of my peers – in the classroom, on the athletic field and in life itself. I am very grateful that I possess the gift of dyslexia, because it has given me a tremendous competitive advantage as an entrepreneur, in the real world.

Lawrence G. Kloth Jr. is co-founder of Reading Success Plus, offering specialized tutoring programs for struggling readers and dyslexic students. Lawrence is dyslexic and happily reports he is now a college graduate. Learn more at: www.readingsuccessplus.com.

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