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 disabilities may be almost double the rate among typically...
Dysfunctional Science – How a new study about dyslexia gets things wrong
Human beings are very good at tuning things out – not noticing objects or events in that are in plain sight, or becoming indifferent to distracting sounds in their...
Sleep Deprived Dyslexic
The longest activity in a typical day is sleeping. High quality and right quantity of sleep at the right time is more critical than most of us realize. The...
Dyslexia Begins Early
Dyslexic brains are wired differently. Researchers now report finding evidence of these differences in infants as young as six months. In a study conducted at Boston Children’s hospital, researchers used...
Survey Results from Dyslexic Advantage
Dyslexic Advantage has announced the release of preliminary survey results exploring the talents tied to dyslexia. Well over a thousand individuals participated in the comprehensive surveys, focused on...
Phonological dyslexia? Not so much….
Two new research studies cast doubt on the role of phonological processing difficulties in dyslexia. One study, from the UK, suggests that previous research showing phonological dyslexia to be...
New Research: Small screen E-readers and dyslexia
A new study support the use of tablets and other e-reading devices for dyslexic high school students. Researchers found that the students experienced significant reading gains in speed and comprehension...
Study supports Davis Symbol Mastery
A recently published case study documents the progress of a fourth grade special education student who successfully used a modified form of Davis Symbol Mastery to improve spelling skills....
Good Fonts for Dyslexia – An Experimental Study
A team of researchers in Spain has recently published the results of a study to determine which fonts were easiest for dyslexic individuals to read. Based on the evaluation...
New Research: Dyslexics have better picture-memory
(Researchers puzzled by results) If you wanted to design a study to test the hypotheses that dyslexics tend to think in pictures rather than words, one way to do...
Parents need help, too
A researcher in England recently reported on the experiences of parents of school-age children who had been identified as dyslexic within the past two years. Researcher Alison Earey questioned parents...
Study measures disorientation in dyslexic children….
… but the researchers don’t seem to know that’s what happened. Here’s what they do know: “hildren who are poor readers have more variable neural responses to speech, reflecting...