How do you read to your child?
[Updated] Reading story books to small children is fun, but did you know that the way you read can make a big difference in preparing your child to become a reader?
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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.
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Comprehension Strategies win out
A meta-analysis of long-term effects of school-based reading interventions shows teaching comprehension strategies is more effective than teaching phonics.
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E-Books? New Study shows dyslexic comprehension better with printed books.
Study shows that dyslexic university students have better reading comprehension of longer texts when reading from a printed book rather than an ebook.
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Facilitation – Making it Easy
The dictionary defines facilitate as “to make easier or less difficult: help foward”. How this approach differs from teaching or tutoring.
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Unflipping the Letters
It’s natural to confuse b and d — it is the unlearning of “mirror generalization” that’s hard. Here’s what scientists have discovered.
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Dysfunctional Science – How a study about dyslexia gets things wrong
Updated: Research shows differences in dyslexic brain function that are tied to dyslexic strengths, not a mental dysfunction.
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Phonemic Awareness: A different take
Updated: Are dyslexic kids better at hearing the discrete sounds of language than others?
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Wider letter spacing helps dyslexic children read
Updated: A study shows that wider spacing between the letters in reading materials can help dyslexic children read faster and better.
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Good Fonts for Dyslexia – An Experimental Study
Updated: Research does not support claims that use of a specially designed custom font for dyslexia leads to improved reading performance.
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Research: Dyslexics have better picture-memory (updated)
(Researchers puzzled by results) If you wanted to design a study to test the hypotheses that dyslexics tend to think
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The Meds Don’t Work (Updated)
A longitudinal study at Johns Hopkins University shows that children on medication for ADHD fared worse over time than unmedicated kids.
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Research shows greater improvement from strength-based teaching
A recently published study from Canada shows that dyslexic students improve with spelling at a significantly higher rate when taught
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