Time for an online program?
This is a time of change. Schools have shut down, families are told to stay at home, household routines are
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Author: Abigail Marshall
Abigail Marshall (retired) was the Webmaster & Internet Information Services Director for Davis Dyslexia Association International from 1995-2024. 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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Fish Don’t Climb Trees – A different take on dyslexia
Davis Facilitator Sue Hall has updated her book: “Fish Don’t Climb Trees: A Whole New Look at Dyslexia”. Sue understands dyslexia from the inside out – as a dyslexic person with vivid recollections of frustrations experienced in elementary school, as a parent who searched for and found a solution
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Fitting Davis Tools into an IEP
A parent asks how to include Davis techniques within a school-based IEP.
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Spelling Help after a Davis Program
A parent of a second-grader writes: My son had a big gain in reading after completing his Davis program week,
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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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E-Books? 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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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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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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