“Evidence Based” — But does it work?
Parents seeking help for their dyslexic kids usually have one question uppermost in their minds: will it work?
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Category: Dyslexia Research
Is your child a “nonresponder”?
What happens when a child cannot learn to read through phonics? Educational researchers have a word for those children: they
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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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How Dyslexia Happens
An animated video inspired by “How Dyslexia Happens” from the book The Gift of Dyslexia
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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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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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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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