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Letters

Notes from one parent to another.

  1. More Than a Score: When Accurate Isn’t Complete

    A school evaluation named everything one boy found difficult and none of what made him remarkable. What changed when a report finally described the whole child.

  2. A Story of Perseverance, Triumph & Admiration

    Is dyslexia, a genetic trait, intertwined with grit? A portrait of Richard Terry-Lloyd — who did not finish a full book until he was thirty-five, and has read one a week ever since.

  3. A Look Into Thriving Dyslexics

    A 20-year study asked what makes a dyslexic child thrive in adulthood. Accepting the difference was near the top of the list.

  4. Personalized Learning and Dyslexia

    Personalized learning is treated as the ideal for all students. For students with dyslexia it is not merely ideal — it is vital.

  5. Can We Afford Dyslexia?

    One-to-one tutoring at $100–$200 an hour puts remediation out of reach for most families. Keep KLIMBing was built to answer that.

  6. The Importance of Dyslexia Identification

    One in five people are dyslexic, and the elementary years are when a child decides who they are. Identification is where everything else starts.

  7. Dyslexia and Accommodations

    If we build a ramp for a wheelchair, we can accept ear reading. On Ben Foss, the Shaywitz research, and the tools that level the playing field.

  8. Dyslexia & Temperament

    The extroverted dyslexic child is misread as lazy. The introverted one is not read at all. Both need us to look past the noise, and the silence.

  9. A Letter to Our Children’s Teachers

    Written to educators: dyslexia is as irrefutable as a broken arm, and the teacher who says the word out loud changes what a family is able to do next.

  10. A Mother’s Journey

    A letter from a mother of a fourth grader — tutors twice a week, an IEP she is not sure is working, and the honest admission that there is simply too much.

  11. Expect the Unexpected

    Preparation does not prevent the hard first week of school — but it is what makes the hard week recoverable.

  12. A Letter to Friends

    The first letter — written at the start of a school year, to parents at the beginning of their journey with a dyslexia diagnosis.

Written by Lindsay, Founder, KLIMB. If something here sounds like your child, we would be glad to hear from you.