Dyslexia Associates of San Antonio

10/15/2025

DARS is the Department of Assistive Rehabilitative Services, usually housed in state programs such as Texas Workforce. If you are going to school you can apply for help with cost of books or tools of your trade, and if you are unemployed they help with job placement. Hold your ground though with training help... if you want to be a nurse, don't settle for them offering training as a medical assistant. You will need recent ( within 3 years) certification of your dyslexia. THE RE-CERTIFICATION IS WORTH IT. Write info@dyslexia-sa.com

10/15/2025

College is tough. Its tougher if you are dyslexic. Get re-certified for the accommodations you need. Write info@dyslexia-sa.com

10/15/2025

Email us for tips on reading with your child or for strategies for yourself as a adult reader. info@dyslexia-sa.com

09/23/2025

If you are dyslexic, consider books on audio... not to listen only, but to read and listen together. That audio-visual combo is a sweet spot for fluency and comprehension. In parts of the USA we have Learning Ally, with 20,000+ textbooks and pleasure reading books from Dr Seuss to Shakespeare, from Grade 3 chapter books to texts for Physics at a post-graduate level. You will need proof of your dyslexia, and there is a small monthly cost paid a year in advance, but the benefits are great.

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09/23/2025

Re-certification of dyslexia is a key to success in college. Make sure though that you use an educational psychologist or educational diagnostician (such as our company has) for the assessment and not some fly-by-night company trying to sell you their expensive tutoring program or "special test". The gold standard tests include WESCHLER, WOODCOCK JOHNSON, and others that are nationally recognized. For the younger children the KABC and others are also norm-referenced and reliable.

09/23/2025

TESTING ISSUES FOR DISABILITY AND DYSLEXIA

Laws have been changed regarding how we define specific learning disability. In the past, certain cognitive (IQ) scores had to be met, or the person was "functioning according to their ability". We can now identify a disability based on intra-scholastic patterns as well as patterns of strength and weakness cognitively without threshold IQ scores. HOWEVER, and this is a big however, to identify someone as having a specific learning disability in reading is one thing: to be classified as dyslexic as a foundation for that disability STILL requires "adequate cognition". So how do we deal with that? Many IQ tests are heavily verbally weighted, which is an issue for the dyslexic. The answer? Ask for your child to be assessed for non-verbal intelligence as well. The KABC (Kaufman) test has a NVI (Non-verbal Index) element, and the CTONI (Comprehensive Test of Non-Verbal Intelligence) also can assess non-verbal intelligence. Ask for the 3 cognition measures of the Woodcock Johnson: Basic Intellectual Ability, (BIA) Brief Intellectual Ability (BIA) , and Fluid Reasoning Index (GfGc) . Two of the three in the "adequate" range should carry for your child to have "adequate ability to learn" for that dyslexia diagnosis.

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05/19/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/dyslexia-german-researchers-find-cause-in-the-brain/ar-AA1qsDKB?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=b7a5ae18d9b641acb1cd20f1f7410bab&ei=49

Einstein had dyslexia. Hemmingway had it, too. It can affect people their whole lives. New findings may lead to a fresh approach to the learning difficulty.

04/10/2025

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03/28/2025

Help for number reversals
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03/02/2025

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-s-attending-college-but-can-t-read-or-write-now-she-s-suing-her-high-school-district/vi-AA1A03vJ?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=ac3e5e0e673d43b0b721b8966fcc2cf7&ei=44
This has sadly been the case as well with many students in special education, who often belong to the "70s" club... draw a smiley face on the paper, write anything, get a 70.

Aleysha Ortiz, a 19-year-old student attending the University of Connecticut, said that she can’t read or write, despite graduating from Hartford Public High School with honors. Now she is suing the school district claiming they failed to meet her special needs. CNN’s Danny Freeman reports.

02/14/2025

Very important! If you are dyslexic you are provided legal protections and accommodation s through 504 law. Now that someone has tried to expand that, 16 states are retaliating with law suits to not only stop the expansion but also wipe out section 504 laws. Texas is one of those states. Look up Texas vs Becerra and please contact your attorney General to protest this and say why we need 504 protections. It's not an advantage, it's leveling the playing field such as extra time on tests or using speech to text software at work

Look up Texas vs. Becerra 504 and ask Texas Attorney General to stop the madness