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Understanding Working Memory: The Brain's Sticky Note If you've ever watched a bright child freeze up in the middle of a math problem, or seen a capable student "space out" during a lecture, you may have witnessed something that is often misunderstood. It looks like...
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Over half of dyslexic students also struggle with math (Pedemonte et al., 2024), but math difficulties are often underestimated in schools and not represented in IEPs or 504’s. Math challenges included speed of math fact retrieval and procedural activities such as multi-digit calculations and algorithmic work. Because students have significant difficulties with handwriting automaticity, working memory, processing speed, and certain aspects of language, it’s no wonder that so many have trouble keeping up despite often good mathematical and logical reasoning abilities. General education teachers can make a big difference by using explicit, structured teaching methods that break down concepts clearly and reduce the cognitive load on students. What Explicit Instruction Looks Like in Math Explicit instruction is clear, step-by-step teaching that shows students exactly what […]
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Dynamic Reasoning is the ‘D’ in Dyslexic MIND Strengths Dynamic reasoning is the ability to think flexibly about change, time, uncertainty, and complex systems. It involves visualizing and mentally simulating how things evolve, projecting information forward to predict outcomes, and spotting opportunities or gaps. For many dyslexic young people, this is one of their strengths—even if it is present in an early, undeveloped form. It’s good to recognize because it may not be on anyone else’s roadmap and is not a strength cultivated in traditional school. One of the positives of The Dyslexic Advantage movie is an opportunity to convey dynamic reasoning strengths in through people’s own words and animation. Dynamic reasoning can be one of the most powerful strengths of the MIND strengths, and […]
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Among Science of Reading leadership, including teachers and parents, there’s a rising interest in considering whether “Linguistic Phonics”, also known as speech-to-print or structured linguistic literacy, may be more efficient for some struggling students compared to traditional Orton-Gillingham. In the Literacy View podcast, Jennifer Newmand and Svetlana Cvetkovic raise the question Is Linguistic Phonics the New Gold Standard in Structured Literacy?” Listen here. Journalist Holly Korbey recently highlighted a small pilot study from Hyde Park Day School in Chicago, a program serving bright students with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities. In that pilot study, students who had made limited progress under previous Orton-Gillingham (OG) -based instruction showed notable gains in oral reading fluency and accuracy after switching to EBLI or Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction, a linguistic […]
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In rocket science, a rocket must get to a critical escape velocity in order to overcome gravity and get into orbit. So dyslexic students need a certain speed and flexibility with basic math facts before they can solve math problems that can build on their strong reasoning abilities.
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In middle school, high school, and college, one of the most difficult situation that dyslexic students face is being asked to do something that you can’t physically do. Writing can be the final common pathway for “showing what you know” so that classes and school can grind to a halt if writing accommodations aren’t put in place.
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After hard-won battles to increase awareness of dyslexia, choose curriculum, and train teachers in structured literacy, a wave of articles in the media has challenged the gains “science of reading” groups have made and raised issues about the latest wave of testing results shows.
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The term “late bloomer” seemed to have originated from botanical observations that certain flowers bloom later than others of its kind. It wasn’t until the early 1900s, when developmental psychology was burgeoning, that late blooming began being applied to young people.
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Jack Horner’s life is a powerful example of how dyslexic thinking can completely transform an area of science. As a child, Jack struggled greatly in traditional school, and even today he finds reading, writing, and rote memorization difficult. Yet he is very visual and highly imaginative working in three dimensions, and he found his first dinosaur bone when he was just 8 years old. Jack thinks in images rather than words, sees connections that others miss, and approaches problems from non-linear angles. Whereas many scientists emphasize step-to-step discoveries, Jack thinking reconstructing the past and imagining the future (dynamic reasoning) allowed him to imagine entire worlds from scattered fossil fragments and ask questions that no one had thought of before. Paleontology before Jack often saw dinosaurs […]
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Dyslexia is commonly described as a difficulty with word-level reading and spelling. Because phonological processing plays a central role in decoding, much of the research and instructional effort focuses—appropriately—on sound-symbol relationships and early reading acquisition.
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