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SALEM Salem school personnel are working to improve student literacy skills and prepare for a new requirement to screen all students for dyslexia.
School board members heard about the progress in both areas from Salem City Schools Literacy Specialist Shelley Wilson during a meeting earlier this week.
“We have seen huge gains already,” she said regarding dyslexia.
By the 2022-2023 school year, schools will be required to screen for the learning disorder known as dyslexia, which can make reading difficult due to letter reversals and other factors.
According to statistics presented by Wilson, nationally one in five adults in the United States has low literacy skills and 54 percent of adults in Ohio are less than proficient in literacy skills.
Long Sutton carer crashed into parked car while over the limit
| Updated: 15:31, 08 January 2021
A part-time carer drank so much alcohol that she crashed into a parked car, a court has heard.
Sandra Hopkins (63), of Roberts Walk, Long Sutton, admitted driving with excess alcohol when she appeared at Boston Magistrates Court.
Prosecuting, Shelley Wilson said that at 6.20pm on October 27, Mrs Hopkins crashed her Renault car into a parked vehicle in Little London, Long Sutton.
Boston Magistrates Court (43890267)
Police attended and she gave a positive breath test and was arrested, providing a reading of 96 micrograms of alcohol in her breath, more than twice the legal limit of 35.
BARRIE, ONT. Shelley Wilson has been a personal support worker (PSW) for nearly 30 years and runs her own business, supporting dozens of seniors in their homes across Simcoe County, and is growing concerned she isn t a priority to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Because I work in the community now and no longer in a nursing home setting, I m afraid that I m going to slip through the cracks. One of Wilson s clients, 90-year-old Paul Sopuch, says it doesn t make any sense. Well, I can t understand why they are bypassing her because she is very important, just like the frontline nurses. She visits many clients in their homes. She s very important, he says.