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What Reading Speed Has to Do With Leadership: Nothing

Many leaders succeed because of their dyslexia, not in spite of it. President Trump stirred up a hornet’s nest when he suggested that Governor...

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Storytelling as a Dyslexic Strength

Storytelling is not simply a language skill. It is a form of reasoning. Recognizing these strengths helps shift how we think about writing instruction and creative expression.

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Rethinking Auditory-Only Phonemic Awareness Training for Reading in the Early Grades Does Not Work

A new study reported on in Education Week found that a widely-used phonemic awareness program (the oral-only Heggerty curriculum) did not improve gains in word reading or oral reading fluency, although it did significantly improve phonemic awareness skills.

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Free Back To School Reading Apps

Some of the most common free apps that dyslexic students use for school.

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Beyond Behavior: Attention, Working Memory, or Something Else?

The problem with trying to diagnose with behavioral checklists is that behavior can result from many different sources. If you have a 3rd grader...

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Math Difficulties Common with Dyslexia

Although the pace of research into dyslexia beyond reading proceeds very slowly, there is some welcome recent research into some of the...

Dyslexia & Mental Math [Premium]

Dyslexia & Mental Math [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 30, 2025 | dyslexia, Math, Premium, Premium Content

Mental math is an ability to perform calculations in your head without using paper and pencil or a calculator or other tools. Is it an ability that some people have or is it something that can be learned?

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Multisensory Learning for Unitaskers [Premium]

Multisensory Learning for Unitaskers [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 28, 2025 | dyslexia, Learning, Premium, Premium Content

Multisensory learning, or the use of more than one of the senses like seeing, hearing, or touching – is a hallmark of structured literacy or Orton-Gillingham type instruction for dyslexic students.

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Math & ChatGPT: Is Learning Better or Worse? [Premium]

Math & ChatGPT: Is Learning Better or Worse? [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 25, 2025 | dyslexia, Math, Premium, Premium Content, Technology

Software tools are valuable, but care must be taken so that students truly understand concepts and steps and how they may have gone astray.

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Middle School Multisensory Math with Marilyn Zecher [Premium]

Middle School Multisensory Math with Marilyn Zecher [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 20, 2025 | dyslexia, Math, Premium, Premium Content

What is helpful about Marilyn Zecher’s teaching on multisensory math is that she recognizes the importance of conceptual understanding among dyslexic students.

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Free Structured Literacy Technology-Based Resources [Premium]

Free Structured Literacy Technology-Based Resources [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 18, 2025 | dyslexia, Learning, Premium, Premium Content, Resources, Technology

There are some wonderful free resources from the University of Florida Literacy Institute (UFLI), but a nice one is the game generator to change up practice a bit.

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An App for Reading and Spelling Long Words: GRAFARI [Premium]

An App for Reading and Spelling Long Words: GRAFARI [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 16, 2025 | dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Spelling, Technology

This is a simple app game from Germany that provides practice with splitting long words that can help students read and spell.

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Dyslexia and AI: Helpful Tools [Premium]

Dyslexia and AI: Helpful Tools [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 13, 2025 | dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Technology

AI-powered apps are mostly for older students and adults, but there are some apps that seem to be promising for younger students.

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Dyslexia and Speech [Premium]

Dyslexia and Speech [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 9, 2025 | dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Speech

Although speech difficulties were observed in Samuel Orton’s earliest reports about dyslexic people, schools and even researchers have focused more on reading than speech.

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School Vouchers Signed Into Law in Texas

School Vouchers Signed Into Law in Texas

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | July 2, 2025 | Advocacy, Community, dyslexia, Education, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed into law Senate Bill 2, the Texas Education Freedom Act, establishing the country’s largest ESA or Education Savings Account which will launch in the 2026-2027 school year.

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Strengths Outside

Strengths Outside

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | June 30, 2025 | dyslexia, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content, School

Summer experiences are often where dyslexic young people find what they really love doing or are good at.

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Why is My Student Being Taught Nonsense Words?

Why is My Student Being Taught Nonsense Words?

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | June 15, 2025 | dyslexia, Learning, Memory, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content, Reading, Speech

Nonsense words may be used to assess how well students have learned certain phonemes and how they are blended, but they should not be memorized…

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Marked Down for Math [Premium]

Marked Down for Math [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | May 15, 2025 | dyslexia, Math, Premium, Premium Content

For many dyslexic students, math reasoning is quite strong and may be above average, but in routine classroom tasks, one may never see it because instructions are misread, working memory becomes overloaded.

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Storms Ahead: What to Know For Public School Students

Storms Ahead: What to Know For Public School Students

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | May 14, 2025 | dyslexia, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content, School

Common issues to both are how to keep students moving forward with a positive outlook and understanding, with growing awareness of their strengths and talents and the benefits of being able to self-advocate.

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Life Lessons Playing Ball

Life Lessons Playing Ball

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | May 12, 2025 | Being Dyslexic, dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.— Nolan Ryan

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Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Help Dyslexics? [Free Registration]

Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Help Dyslexics? [Free Registration]

by Fernette Eide | May 4, 2025 | Apps, dyslexia, Newsletter, Premium, Premium Content, Writing

AI or Artificial Intelligence-informed software can be extremely useful in many ways for dyslexic students as well as adults.

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What Can We Learn from a Dyslexic Comedian [Premium]

What Can We Learn from a Dyslexic Comedian [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | April 23, 2025 | dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content

Phil Hanley is a popular comic all over the country, with appearances on late night TV, Comedy Cellar, and a “staple of the NYC comedy scene”, but when he shares some of his early experiences with school, he has an important message for everyone.

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What to Do About Foreign Learning [Premium]

What to Do About Foreign Learning [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | April 18, 2025 | dyslexia, Foreign Language, Premium, Premium Content

If a student is still having difficulties reading in his or her primary language, is it best to avoid any foreign language learning at school?

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Answer Apps Like PhotoMath: Pros and Cons [Premium]

Answer Apps Like PhotoMath: Pros and Cons [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | April 13, 2025 | dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content, Technology

With apps like PhotoMath, almost every math teacher today knows that math homework assignments won’t necessarily be completed entirely by their students.

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Gifted Dyslexics: Best Fit for School? [Premium]

Gifted Dyslexics: Best Fit for School? [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | March 27, 2025 | dyslexia, Gifted, Premium, Premium Content, School

The question of the goodness of fit for specific gifted dyslexic students is a tricky one because the answer will differ depending on the…

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Singer- Songwriter Freya Ridings [Premium]

Singer- Songwriter Freya Ridings [Premium]

by Dyslexic Advantage Team | March 24, 2025 | dyslexia, Famous People with Dyslexia, Premium, Premium Content

I can’t read music, and I’ve never been able to. So for me, the place that I have turned to in my darkest times has always been a piano..

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