Welcome to My New Life, a Love Every podcast.

I'm your host, Jessica Rolfe.

As you may know, Love Every now offers the reading skill set.

It's a phonics space program that makes reading fun, motivating your child to read through play.

It covers skills from pre-K all the way through second grade.

In this episode, we're going to talk about the neuroscience behind dyslexia and why it has nothing to do with reversing letters.

Carla Small and Dr. Nadine Gobb created Early Bird, an early literacy assessment used in school districts nationwide.

Today I'm speaking with Carla. Welcome to My New Life, Carla.

Hi. It's great to be here, Jessica. Thank you.

So you work with Dr. Nadine Gab from Harvard. She's a co-founder and scientific advisor for Early Bird. And her position is that

dyslexia is preventable. This is the first time I've heard about this, that actually you can

prevent dyslexia. Can you tell us more about this? Yeah, that's pretty eye-opening, isn't it?

So basically, the concept is that if you catch it early and you identify children who have a risk

for dyslexia, then you give them what they need, which is basic good instruction, then

you'll actually prevent the fact that downstream they won't be able to read.

And that really is what we mean by preventing dyslexia.

And it's a model that we see in healthcare all the time.

We just don't see it in education, right?

We can prevent issues in health care by identifying the risk early, helping the patient change

their behaviors or what they're doing, and then see changes that prevent those downstream risks.

In education, we can see the same thing. You identify the child early. You find out what their

issues are. You give them

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