Oakhurst at Kingwood parents of elementary-school aged children should take note of New Caney I.S.D.’s Second Annual Dyslexia Interactive Parent Night on Tuesday, March 9th. This workshop is intended to include parents in participative hands-on activities to assist their children with dyslexia, a learning disorder marked by impairment of the ability to recognize and comprehend written words.

A person may have dyslexia if they possess 3 or more of the following characteristics:

• Terrible spelling
• Slow, choppy, inaccurate reading
• Frequently confuses left and right
• Difficulty learning to tie shoes
• Chronic ear infections
• Delayed speech
• Mixing up the sounds and syllables in long words
• Can’t create words that rhyme
• Trouble telling time on clock with hands
• Dreads going to school
• Late establishing a dominant hand
• Trouble finding the correct word when speaking

Campus dyslexia teachers will be on-hand to provide informative sessions and answer questions you may have.

March 9, 2010 7:00 p.m – 8:00 p.m. New Caney HS Annex Large Group Instruction Room