Supporting Students with Dyslexia :: Kerri Irvin [Ep 317]

Don't Mom Alone Podcast

Kids & Family, Leisure, Parenting, Education

5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

When it comes to learning differences and special education diagnoses, it can feel overwhelming and defeating to see your child struggle. My guest Kerri Irvin is a dyslexia specialist who has worked with countless children, teens and adults to help them thrive and embrace their learning differences.

“It amazes me the gifts that God provides for all children, alongside their challenges. For every challenge, an equally important, if not more significant, gift has been provided and their challenges, without fail, are gifts that support them with their talents and make them better learners and people.”

We talk about what dyslexia is, how students with dyslexia learn differently, ways to partner with your child’s teachers to help them succeed, and how to support friends who have children with learning differences. Kerri shares with passion and hope about how dyslexia is not just a learning challenge, but can be a strength.

Connect with Kerri

Email: [email protected]

Site: SK Designs for Learning

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, welcome back to the Don't Mom Alarm Podcast.
0:10.4	I am your host Heather McFadian and this is the place where I am going to walk alongside
0:15.8	you and connect you with people and resources so you know that you don't mom alone.
0:22.4	In this episode, number 317, I have the privilege of welcoming on the show Carrie Irvin.
0:28.4	With parents come to me a lot of times all they've heard about dyslexia is this child's
0:34.4	not going to be able to read.
0:36.0	This child is not smart.
0:38.2	This child's going to start a little school.
0:39.8	He's going to be a special education program.
0:42.2	He's going to be singled out.
0:44.0	He's not going to fit in and that is not the life experience for me.
0:49.4	With dyslexic students, my students are thriving but they are receiving the kind of instruction
0:57.0	they need in order to thrive and that is the key to this whole problem of dyslexia is making
1:06.0	sure that students have access to what science and the education field has taught us about
1:16.0	addressing the needs of a dyslexic student and helping them to show what they can do.
1:23.8	Carrie Irvin is a licensed dyslexia therapist, a certified academic language therapist and
1:28.9	educator and today she's here to encourage you whether you are walking through the diagnosis
1:35.7	of dyslexia for one of your children or walking through it with a friend that we can learn
1:40.5	a little bit more about what dyslexia is and the hope that Carrie will provide in her
1:47.5	over 30 years of experience and walking alongside families who have children with dyslexia.
1:53.8	I think I was encouraged to remember that each of our children are unique and they have
1:58.3	their own learning style and as parents we have the privilege to empower them, to advocate
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