Author: Abigail Marshall

Abigail Marshall is the Webmaster & Internet Information Services Director for Davis Dyslexia Association International. She is also the author of two books about dyslexia, The Everything Parents Guide to Children with Dyslexia and When Your Child Has ... Dyslexia.

Comprehension Strategies win out

Posted on August 16, 2019August 17, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

A meta-analysis of long-term effects of school-based reading interventions shows teaching comprehension strategies is more effective than teaching phonics.

E-Books? New Study shows dyslexic comprehension better with printed books.

Posted on July 28, 2019July 28, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

Study shows that dyslexic university students have better reading comprehension of longer texts when reading from a printed book rather than an ebook.

Facilitation – Making it Easy

Posted on July 24, 2019July 25, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

The dictionary defines facilitate as “to make easier or less difficult: help foward”. How this approach differs from teaching or tutoring.

Unflipping the Letters

Posted on June 29, 2019July 6, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

It’s natural to confuse b and d — it is the unlearning of “mirror generalization” that’s hard. Here’s what scientists have discovered.

Dysfunctional Science – How a study about dyslexia gets things wrong

Posted on June 28, 2019June 30, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: Research shows differences in dyslexic brain function that are tied to dyslexic strengths, not a mental dysfunction.

Phonemic Awareness: A different take

Posted on May 26, 2019May 30, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: Are dyslexic kids better at hearing the discrete sounds of language than others?

Wider letter spacing helps dyslexic children read

Posted on April 30, 2019July 2, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: A study shows that wider spacing between the letters in reading materials can help dyslexic children read faster and better.

Good Fonts for Dyslexia – An Experimental Study

Posted on April 17, 2019July 2, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: Research does not support claims that use of a specially designed custom font for dyslexia leads to improved reading performance.

Research: Dyslexics have better picture-memory (updated)

Posted on March 29, 2019July 2, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

(Researchers puzzled by results) If you wanted to design a study to test the hypotheses that dyslexics tend to think

The Meds Don’t Work (Updated)

Posted on March 24, 2019July 2, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

A longitudinal study at Johns Hopkins University shows that children on medication for ADHD fared worse over time than unmedicated kids.

Research shows greater improvement from strength-based teaching

Posted on March 13, 2019March 14, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

A recently published study from Canada shows that dyslexic students improve with spelling at a significantly higher rate when taught

The nonsense of teaching nonsense words

Posted on February 12, 2019March 3, 2019 by Abigail Marshall

Dyslexic children often experience difficulty with phonetic decoding. Researchers and educators use nonsense words – also called nonwords or psuedowords