Dyslexia

The Michigan House and Senate approved the legislation this week that signals the start of a major shift in how the state’s public schools approach reading instruction.

Today, some residents of Detroit neighborhoods try to get answers about concrete smashing operations near their homes. Also, Michigan’s Legislature turns its attention to interventions for kids' dyslexia and other kinds of reading delays. Plus, what’s cooking at the Dixboro Project. We’ll meet the new executive chef and partner Garret Lipar, who dazzled Detroiters at the micro-sized restaurant Albena.

Michigan public school students would undergo periodic screenings for dyslexia under legislation passed Tuesday in the state Senate.

Senate Bill 567 would re-tool early elementary reading assessments to screen for signs of dyslexia, while companion bill SB 568 would boost instruction about spotting the learning disability in teacher education programs.

By the time they leave kindergarten, kids are supposed to have learned the building blocks of literacy. They should be able to connect letters to sounds…