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How to Read with Dyslexia: What All Readers Can Learn
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How to Read with Dyslexia: What All Readers Can Learn

Welcome to Read Like a Reader!

Becoming a reader is lifelong, inexhaustible work. How does one learn to read? And then to read again, and variously? What are the postures, and practices? How can we read a text as it asks to be read?

This week we hear from Avivah Polmer, a Colorado College graduate in Classics, and a Linguistic and Dyslexia specialist with over twenty-five years of experience in the field.

Over sounds of yard work and occasional traffic, Avivah and I discussed how our mouths work to make certain sounds; phonemes and phonics; stigma and anxiety; literacy difficulties and incarceration; orthography; dyslexic fonts; student support; sequencing sounds in a word; the case for repetition in learning; her family’s story of struggle and great success with dyslexia; and what all readers can learn from readers with dyslexia.

What a gift to learn from her expertise!

Avivah recommends the Lindamood-Bell Program.

Thanks to Jacob Keough-Mishler for his original music, sound design, and editing.

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Becoming a reader is lifelong, inexhaustible work. What postures do you practice as a reader now? What postures could you practice next?