A. See John Holt - How Children Fail - for a classic look at teachers diminishing kids - his 1950s SpEd kids objected most to "Sweetie" etc.
B. Mya needs Text-to-Speech and audiobooks and someone's old Android phone so she can use Google Lens to read to her. She also needs to dictate into that phone so she starts to understand word shape - she is a victim of phonics-first reading instruction