Assets School has emerged over the decades as a one-of-a-kind institution that puts the learning needs of the gifted and/or dyslexic student first.
When these dyslexic students enter the special education system, the problem is that many special education teachers have not been trained to deal with them.
As a result, parents of dyslexic students have to pay for appropriate instruction themselves or sue the schools.
Maintained Sector schools have inclusion and support strategies for dyslexic students.
One way teachers help dyslexic students is to break words into different sounds.
The Language Support Program is available to meet the special needs of the dyslexic student preparing for college entrance.
One specialist in Utah's student disability office teaches selective reading to dyslexic medical students, who have reams of material to digest.
I completed a year's course recently for a qualification to teach dyslexic students.
The use of voice recognition software by dyslexic students has largely taken software companies by surprise.
Now, academic life for blind or dyslexic students is about to get easier.