Assisting Dyslexic & Struggling Readers

As a homeschooling mom, I’ve learned it’s completely normal and acceptable to seek help for your little learners. While my son Thomas has thrived learning all things, we struggled with reading. We also quickly discovered I was not the one to work on reading with him. I came across Jennie and her program DysConnections in the spring. It sounded like a perfect opportunity for Thomas to get more intentional direction from someone who was better qualified! Ms. Christie has helped Thomas overcome his dread of reading! We’ve done two sessions, and we all can already tell such a difference in not only his desire to read, but his growth. Choosing this addition to our learning has been a game changer, and I’m so very glad we are fortunate enough to be a part of it. We look forward to seeing the continuous growth and passion for reading from Thomas. Thank you Jennie and Christie for helping this homeschool mom see success from a different avenue!

Dysconnections has been a blessing to our family! We have loved the flexibly of the zoom classes. More importantly, my daughter is now reading independently and enjoying it! She loves her tutor Mrs. Julie and has formed a friendship with her classmate. The lessons are challenging, but still engaging and fun! I would highly recommend!

After struggling with reading in our homeschooling journey for over a year, I found Mrs. Bridger and immediately felt heard as a parent and a teacher. She listened to the concerns I was seeing and suspicion of dyslexia with my son. Mrs. Bridger did her own evaluation to see where my son placed with her program and provided me with results and how the program works. We have been working with her for about 9 months now and have seen drastic improvement in skill, but also the confidence in my son. She also does re-evaluations and sends them to me to check his progress. He is decoding and his comprehension is significantly better. For the first time ever last week, he picked up a chapter book to read on his own just for fun. Thanks to Mrs. Bridger and Dysconnections, reading is fun for my son again!

Dysconnections Virtual Summer Program has been amazing! My son gets very frustrated and upset anytime we ask him to do anything related to reading, but he actually loves this program! His teacher, Ms. Julie, is so warm, patient, and inviting. She keeps the course moving smoothly by having games and playful activities to teach each reading concept. Her approach makes learning fun and much less intimidating. For the first time ever, my son has associated reading with a positive feeling instead of it being tied up with frustration and defeat. The concepts taught in Dysconnections finally seem to be making sense in my son’s brain, and I can see his confidence grow with each lesson he completes. It is such a relief to know that he will enter second grade with this additional support and knowledge gained!