Finally. The only place I fit in. The only place I can do what people want me to do. I can do this better than people even expect me to. I can be the real me. I can relax. I can breathe. If only my whole day could involve art. My life would be different.

• Explicit, systematic instruction

• Structured Literacy: Phonological Awareness, Orthography, Morphology, Syllable Types, Syntax, and Semantics

• Paragraph chunking

• Retelling

• Immediate feedback and prompting

• Multi-sensory instruction

• small group or one-on-one instruction

• intensive instruction

• accommodations: audio books, speech to text, software, dictation,