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 Gavin Newsom should be disqualified from consideration for the presidency because he has identified himself as dyslexic....
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.
The problem with trying to diagnose with behavioral checklists is that behavior can result from many different sources. If you have a 3rd grader trying to focus on reading, but he looks out the window and doesn't make much progress - is it poor attention, working...
Although the pace of research into dyslexia beyond reading proceeds very slowly, there is some welcome recent research into some of the math challenges that are associated with dyslexia from the University of California. Some of the key findings of the study: -...
