School's not easy, period, and it's even harder when you have dyslexia.

But I think you just got to keep pushing, really.

And you are no less important than somebody who doesn't have it.

This is Susan Lambert, and welcome to the latest edition of Science of Reading Essentials,

a special series of Science of Reading the podcast from Amplify.

So the idea behind these essentials episodes is to bring all the great information we've heard

from past guests and put it in one place so that you can see why this

is a critical topic for the science of reading. You don't need to have any knowledge of the topic.

They are designed to help usher you into that topic in a pretty broad way.

You know, really we want to make a connection to what you need to know to help your students develop even more.

This one is really near and dear to my heart.

The topic is all about dyslexia.

And I honestly wouldn't be the Science of Reading podcast host, or even probably in the

world of education, had dyslexia not been a part of my family.

And I know I've talked about it a lot on this podcast about it was my second son who struggled

with dyslexia and it took us a really long time to figure out what it was.

Dyslexia is, it's the weirdest thing because many teachers, early educators, they've probably heard the word dyslexia.

They maybe know what it is, but they're not always sure how they can support students

that are exhibiting signs of dyslexia or have dyslexia.

Maybe they don't even feel comfortable knowing what the signs of dyslexia are.

And we've known about dyslexia for years,

even all the way back to the early 1900s. We already had people studying what is dyslexia

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