Category Archives: Dyslexia

On his first day of fourth grade three years ago, Britton R. came home begging his mother for a tutor because he knew he wasn’t reading like everyone else. Despite trying many different programs and tutors in the past, he still struggled to make sense of the letters on a page. This changed, however, when he met Mollie Bolton, a Wilson® Credentialed Trainer, in November 2014. Through her tutoring and support, Britton learned to read using the Wilson Reading System®. “I really liked Mollie. She was teaching me how to read in a way that I had never learned before, and it started to make se [...]

This spring, Margaret Reilley, a teacher in New Jersey’s Stafford Township School District, earned her master’s degree, top grades, and the distinction of being the first graduate of Fitchburg State University’s new dyslexia specialist concentration.  From her home 260 miles away from the Massachusetts campus, Maggie tackled literacy, language disorders, assessment methods and other related topics to earn her M.Ed. in Special Education: Guided Studies – Dyslexia Specialist. The online program launched in fall 2015 in partnership with Wilson Language Training®, a nationally recogn [...]

“I suppose I did okay in kindergarten, but the rest of my formal education was pretty much a flop.” So shares Alby Lee Lewis in Life with No Words, a candid memoir about growing up in poverty in Chicago, masking his illiteracy for decades, navigating adulthood as a non-reader, and returning to school at age 55 to learn to read through the Wilson Reading System®. Al has shared his story on the Oprah Winfrey show, with Wilson® instructors, and with college students earning degrees in education. When a college professor suggested he write a book about his experiences, he said, “Why n [...]

As a student with dyslexia, 13-year-old Ainsley P. once would have balked at the sight of the four-syllable, 11-letter word “legislation.” Now, it’s part of her lexicon.For the past two years, the Virginia Beach eighth-grader has used her voice and experience to raise awareness about dyslexia by advocating for laws that address the educational needs of students with the learning disability.“Most people think dyslexia is just mixing up the letters b and d or m and w. They don’t realize how much it affects kids like me. If you can’t read, it’s very difficult to learn in all subject [...]

Like many of her peers, Tegan C. will soon be flipping through college brochures and searching websites to determine where she’ll enroll after graduating from high school. What makes her college search remarkable is that the goal of earning an academic degree once seemed unattainable.The 15-year-old sophomore struggled with reading and writing throughout elementary school and into middle school before being diagnosed with dyslexia. Following intensive training with tutors using the Wilson Reading System® (WRS), she is an honors student at Babylon High School on Long Island, NY, and is looki [...]