Fort Worth school district puts focus, funding on dyslexia services

FORT WORTH -- Ellie Martinez remembers feeling pretty good about reading and writing when she was little.

But that ease of learning soon changed, and she wasn’t too young to notice.

“In first grade, I was having problems spelling cat, hat, rat — stuff like that,” said Ellie, who is now 12. “That was probably whenever I first noticed, ‘Wow, I am really not good at spelling’ ... which made me feel like ‘What’s wrong? Why can’t I do this?’ ”

Ellie’s parents, Sarah and William Martinez, were already on the lookout for signs of dyslexia. Her father has the learning disorder, which can run in a family.

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