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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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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Book Review: Out of Autism
Out of Autism takes the reader through each phase of the Davis Autism program, interweaving practical explanations with the accounts of the very different experiences of each of the children and adults that Dr. Cathy Dodge Smith has worked with.
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A Broader Legal Definition of Dyslexia
There is a bill currently under consideration in the New York legislature that would add a new definition of dyslexia
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Research Update: Morphemes, Meaning, and Dyslexia
In recent years, several separate teams of researchers have issued a series of groundbreaking studies, focused on the reading strategies
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Visual Dyslexia: New study is all sizzle, no steak
A new research report about dyslexia and vision has been drawing outsized media attention, with hyped up headlines that suggest
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Research Confirms Right-Brained Dyslexic Reading Strength
A newly published fMRI study conducted in New Zealand has confirmed that improved reading skills among dyslexic adults correspond with
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Why Tyrannosaurus but Not If?
“I don’t understand it: he can read tyrannosaurus, but he gets stuck on if!” This question from the mother of
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Dyslexia and Giftedness – By the Numbers
A new study by Italian researchers suggests that the rate of intellectual giftedness among students with dyslexia and related learning
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Dyslexia Begins Early
Dyslexic brains are wired differently. Researchers now report finding evidence of these differences in infants as young as six months. In
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US Education Department OK’s the Word “Dyslexia”….. sort of
In an artfully and elusively worded missive, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has issued a formal letter “clarifying” standards
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Survey Results from Dyslexic Advantage
Dyslexic Advantage has announced the release of preliminary survey results exploring the talents tied to dyslexia. Well over a
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Kids with ADHD must squirm to learn
New research shows that if you want ADHD kids to learn, you have to let them squirm. The foot-tapping, leg-swinging
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