Black and Dyslexic

Join Winifred A. Winston with Janique Parrott-Gaffney as they discuss all things literacy and dyslexia. Janique is a former special educator who realized she wasn’t properly equipped to teach her students how to read. She did a google search and found a program that trained her on structured literacy and later opened her specialized tutoring firm to help struggling readers.

Join Winifred A. Winston and LeDerick Horne with Nikki Francis for another Bad Azz Parent segment. Nikki discusses her journey advocating for her daughter in Maryland public schools and as well as in North Carolina. She shares how instrumental her daughter’s self awareness was in her decision to leave the traditional public school system and decide to homeschool her daughter, more specifically joi...

Join Winifred A. Winston with Brittny Pierre as they talk about her journey of struggling in school. Her family thought she was lazy or not motivated to do well in school. When Brittny finally got the diagnosis of dyslexia, she felt relieved, but still didn’t know what she was supposed to do with that diagnosis. It’s still challenging when you don’t know what dyslexia is or what strategies you nee...

Join Winifred A. Winston and LeDerick Horne with Dr. Julie Washington as they talk about why Black parents should feel empowered to advocate and access resources for their children. Dr. Washington share’s insights into assessments, cultural dialects, and why it’s important to have a network of providers of Color, such as Black psychologist, neuropsychologist and school counselors.

Join Winifred A. Winston and LeDerick Horne with Kareem Weaver as they discuss all things advocating for special education services in K-12. He shares factors that contribute to the school to prison pipeline, why children aren’t learning how to read, what schools can do to ensure all children learn to read and how important it is for parents to get over the stigma of learning disabilities.

Join Winifred A. Winston with Camillia Whitehead as they talk about her journey as a parent of a dyslexic child. For this Bad Azz Parent segment, Camillia shares the process she went through to pinpoint her child’s diagnosis, the struggle with schools, and her advocacy towards dyslexia as well.

Join Winifred A. Winston with Co-host LeDerick Horne as he shares his journey of winning over dyslexia when he entered community college after an early diagnosis. LeDerick shares how although he got an early diagnosis, it wasn’t until someone explained to him what it meant to be dyslexic and provided academic supports and services, did he thrive and become a published spoken word poet, internation...

Join Winifred A. Winston and co-host LeDerick Horne as they have a conversation about what motivated them to work together on The Black and Dyslexic Podcast.