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…
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…
“Evidence Based” — But does it work?
Parents who are seeking help for their dyslexic kids usually have one question uppermost in their minds: will it work?…
New Research Confirms that Dyslexics Read Better with Right Brain Strategies
A newly published fMRI study conducted in New Zealand has confirmed that improved reading skills among dyslexic adults correspond with…
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…
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…
Sleep Deprived Dyslexic
The longest activity in a typical day is sleeping. High quality and right quantity of sleep at the right time…
Dyslexia Begins Early
Dyslexic brains are wired differently. Researchers now report finding evidence of these differences in infants as young as six months. In…
Survey Results from Dyslexic Advantage
Dyslexic Advantage has announced the release of preliminary survey results exploring the talents tied to dyslexia. Well over a…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Study measures disorientation in dyslexic children….
... but the researchers don't seem to know that's what happened. Here's what they do know: "[C]hildren who are poor…
Allophonic Processing & Dyslexia – A Research Update
New research among dyslexic adults seems to confirm that dyslexics have a heightened sensitivity to sounds of language, thinking in…
The Dyslexia Quandary – Update
On December 1, the APA (American Psychiatric Association) approved the recommendations for the forthcoming DSM-5. I am not exactly sure…
The neural signature of creativity
In 1980, Ron Davis realized that his mind was at its dyslexic worst when he was at his creative best.…
Three Parts to a Word – an Explanation from Brain Research
Davis Symbol Mastery -- the modeling of words in clay - is based on the principle that each word has…
Research Update: “Nonresponders” and dyslexia
A new study confirms that the children who fail to progress with traditional, phonics-based interventions are highly likely to be…
Phonemic Awareness: A different take
Are dyslexic kids better at hearing the discrete sounds of language than others? That assertion would fly in the face…
Is your child a “nonresponder”?
What happens when a child cannot learn to read though phonics? Educational researchers have a word for those children: they…
How the brain interprets art
CNN Health has a feature story what neuroscience has to tell us about how our minds make sense of art…
Learning to pay attention early leads to long-term academic success
Young children who are able to pay attention and persist with a task have a 50 percent greater chance of…
The Dyslexia Quandary
A comment on the current proposed DSM 5 criteria: New visitors usually discover our web site via a search for…
Wider letter spacing helps dyslexic children read
A new study shows that wider spacing between the letters in reading materials can help dyslexic children read faster and better. European researchers found that extra-wide letter spacing doubled accuracy and increased reading speed by more than 20 percent among dyslexic children age eight to 14.
How do you read to your child?
Reading story books to small children is fun, but did you know that the way you read can make a…
Research Summary: Asymmetry and Dyslexia
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) allows scientists to see the white matter fiber tracts that form the major connections among different…