St. Cloud Times — Henry Gramke is like a lot of 7-year-olds. He loves Legos, is always on the move and curious about many things.
He’s bright and comes from an educated family. That’s why his parents became concerned when he began having difficulty with reading not long after he started school at All Saints Academy.
“He would look at a sight word and he might get it two times or maybe once, or he might just guess and guess and guess,” his mother, Patty Gramke, said. “He did great in preschool and he loves to listen to us read to him. We wanted to work on his skills during the summer, but I could sense the anxiety building in him to where he really struggled.”
And that’s what brought Henry to an old home in St. Cloud — the upstairs of which has been converted into an office for Kelly Haws, a special education instructor in the Sartell-St. Stephen school district.
She is part of a new program called Foundation for Success that All Saints Academy is making a priority for its students.
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“Dyslexia usually comes with amazing gifts and the people who have it are successful not despite their dyslexia but because of it,” said Haws, who is working on a doctorate in educational administration and leadership at St. Cloud State University — and is centering her dissertation on the effects of dyslexia assistance. “If they get reading help early, the sky’s the limit.”
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