A report from the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission pointed to several issues in the education system for children facing reading disabilities.
“Our goal is to collaborate with individuals and stakeholders to ensure that students with reading disabilities are provided fair and equitable access to education in Saskatchewan. This report is the first of many steps in that process,” Wilcox said.The commission said it consulted with families, students, educators, medical professionals and community-based organizations.
According to the The Yale Centre for Dyslexia and Creativity, dyslexia shows up in about 20 per cent of the population and makes up about 80-90 per cent of of all those with learning disabilities.The report said due to a lack of surveying and reporting the number of people in Canada with a reading disability could be much higher than reported.In Saskatchewan, the Ministry of Education and many schools have moved away from the term “dyslexia”, using an umbrella term like “reading disability.
It pointed out that a difficulty or inability to read affects a child’s confidence, adding students with reading disabilities often underachieve in school and are more likely to drop out, less likely to go to post-secondary, and tend to take longer to finish a program they enroll in. are also disproportionately involved with the criminal justice system and in correctional facilities.”
Numbers reported for previous years were much lower, noting that only 66.8 per cent of students in Grade 1 met or exceeded that standard in 2019.That number drops even further when looking at First Nations, Inuit or Metis children, where only 40 per cent of children in Grade 1 met or exceeded that goal.
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