Are Students with ‘Reading Barriers’ Ready to Start the New School Year?
September 19, 2018
By: Christina Samuels
Source: Education Week
Most teachers of students with “reading barriers”—blindness or low vision, dyslexia, or mobility impairments that prevent them from using traditional books—feel ready to start the new school year.
But they’re not sure that their students are.
Those are the findings from a recent survey of more than 700 teachers conducted by Benetech, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based company that creates free, accessible texts through its Bookshare initiative. Benetech, now in its third five-year funding cycle from the U.S. Department of Education, has about 500,000 student members, most of whom have dyslexia.