Decoding Mom

A Parent Field Guide to Dyslexia, ADHD, and IEPs

A field guide for parents

Make sense of your kid’s reading, testing, and IEP.

Plain-language explainers, interactive tools, and advocacy guides for parents navigating dyslexia, ADHD, and special education.

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Interactive tools to help you see what the report is really saying.

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Reading Profile Builder

Answer a few questions about how your kid reads. Get a profile that names what you’re seeing: phonological, orthographic, fluency, or comprehension.

8 questions3 min

Build a profile

Tool 02


Spelling Under Load

Feel what it’s like to spell while your brain is holding something else. A short, embodied demo that makes working memory pressure real for neurotypical adults.

Interactive5 min

Try the experience

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Confidence Interval Calculator

Your kid’s score wasn’t a single number. It was a range. Plug in the test and score to see the band the evaluator should have explained to you.

For any test1 min

Open calculator

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My kid is struggling to read.

Understand the four parts of reading, figure out which is breaking down, and learn what to ask the school for.

Go to Reading Profiles

I just got an evaluation report.

Walk through a psychoeducational eval section by section. Learn what the scores mean, and what they don’t.

Go to Test Explainers

We’re heading into an IEP meeting.

Scripts, email templates, and accommodation lists the school won’t hand you.

Go to IEP & Advocacy