A summer of extra tutoring—all gone. The fancy tablet, the brilliant markers, the tracing of words in sand. All that was taught—all gone. Nothing stuck.
Why can’t your child retain any of it? Even how to spell little words like “one” and “two.” Until you know the root cause of this difficulty, all that extra effort may simply be wasted.
The logical approach to any problem is to get to the root of the problem. And so it is for dyslexia and spelling or writing difficulties. Until our students followed this logical approach through Dysolve, they too spent their earlier summers trying to learn, relearn, and overlearn how to read, write and spell. But like millions affected in this country, nothing stuck for our students prior to Dysolve. From 3rd grade onwards, at-risk readers often continue to struggle throughout school, as study after study has found. This is why 75% of students in special ed stay in special ed all the way through high school.
The interventions used in school and by private providers are mainly compensatory. They do not get to the root of the problem but instead try to help students cope chronically with their difficulties. That’s why the Third Grade Walll exists—at that point, the coping skills taught fall short of the abilities needed to handle academic work.
The logical solution is to remove these difficulties so that affected students can perform as efficiently and effectively as their typical peers. When the brain processes language inefficiently, it gobbles up a lot of mental resources, leaving little room for other tasks, such as storing what was taught.
For students in Dysolve, as the program located and cleared the processing deficits underlying their difficulties, their ability to grasp spelling rules, retain and apply them improved dramatically. Half of them went on to achieve academic Honors, as a recent study concluded.
“Wow, this is so easy!” exclaimed a Dysolve student, 7 months into her program. The words just tumbled out effortlessly as she typed, all spelled correctly.
The choice is clear: keep going through these summers of relearning-overlearning- nonlearning or stop this cycle for good.
