Category: Dyslexia Research

How do you read to your child?

Posted on November 30, 2019December 5, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

[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?

E-Books? New Study shows dyslexic comprehension better with printed books.

Posted on July 28, 2019December 5, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Study shows that dyslexic university students have better reading comprehension of longer texts when reading from a printed book rather than an ebook.

Unflipping the Letters

Posted on June 29, 2019December 5, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

It’s natural to confuse b and d — it is the unlearning of “mirror generalization” that’s hard. Here’s what scientists have discovered.

Dysfunctional Science – How a study about dyslexia gets things wrong

Posted on June 28, 2019December 5, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: Research shows differences in dyslexic brain function that are tied to dyslexic strengths, not a mental dysfunction.

Phonemic Awareness: A different take

Posted on May 26, 2019September 11, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: Are dyslexic kids better at hearing the discrete sounds of language than others?

Wider letter spacing helps dyslexic children read

Posted on April 30, 2019December 5, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: A study shows that wider spacing between the letters in reading materials can help dyslexic children read faster and better.

Good Fonts for Dyslexia – An Experimental Study

Posted on April 17, 2019September 11, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

Updated: Research does not support claims that use of a specially designed custom font for dyslexia leads to improved reading performance.

Research: Dyslexics have better picture-memory (updated)

Posted on March 29, 2019December 5, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

(Researchers puzzled by results) If you wanted to design a study to test the hypotheses that dyslexics tend to think

Research shows greater improvement from strength-based teaching

Posted on March 13, 2019September 11, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

A recently published study from Canada shows that dyslexic students improve with spelling at a significantly higher rate when taught

How VR Can Help Dyslexic Students

Posted on June 6, 2018September 12, 2021 by Jeannie Bentley

VR developers are collaborating with institutions to explore the use of virtual reality as an effective educational tool. They are looking at how it can enhance learning, especially for students facing challenges like dyslexia.

Research Update: Morphemes, Meaning, and Dyslexia

Posted on November 6, 2017December 6, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

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

Posted on October 21, 2017September 12, 2021 by Abigail Marshall

A new research report about dyslexia and vision has been drawing outsized media attention, with hyped up headlines that suggest

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