October is Dyslexia Awareness Month
Breaking Through the Dyslexia Barriers
Lois and Nicholas Letchford’s success stories
They told her, “Your son is unteachable,
incapable of learning how to read.
His handwriting is indecipherable.
He really is the worst case we have seen.”
His mum didn’t know what to say to them.
Maternal instinct told her they were wrong.
She knew him best and she believed in him,
but, at this school, he would never belong.
At home, she taught him how to read alone.
She used things he enjoyed, poems and rhymes.
She found he learned the best when he was shown.
He needed words repeated many times.
She wrote a book that follows their journey.
He’s now a Doctor of Philosophy.
© Carolyn Hastings 2022
The ‘she’ in this sonnet is Lois Letchford, educator, international speaker and author of Reversed: A Memoir.
The ‘he’ is her son, Nicholas, who failed first grade because he couldn’t read but has since gone on to earn a…
