It is 7:40 on a Tuesday night. Your child has been on the same page of their reading log for 20 minutes. You have said “just sound it out” more times than you can count. They can tell you every detail of the movie they watched on Saturday, but the word was keeps coming out as saw. Somewhere in the back of your mind, a question appears before you want it to. Are they even trying? October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, which makes it a good time to look at that question different
For many children with dyslexia, the challenge of writing is not in generating ideas but in the process of getting those ideas onto the page. Spelling, letter formation, and recalling how words look can drain so much mental energy that the original thought fades away. A child who can tell a rich, detailed story aloud might only hand in a few simple sentences because writing them down feels overwhelming. Speech-to-text apps offer a powerful solution by letting children speak t
