At 4, Kate Cassidy didn’t know the alphabet. In first grade, she still couldn’t read. Testing identified her as a “struggling reader” — a diagnosis that was “of no help,” said Dr. Laura Cassidy, ...

In A Nutshell Ancient origins: Genes linked to dyslexia date back over 430 million years to early vertebrates: they’re not ...

Jonathan Reovan picks his daughter up from school to take her to a reading tutor. The family has spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to get reading support for their two children. Credit: ...

EdSource · How a California professor once coded secrets in music (rebroadcast) Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. A 2023 California law requires all students in kindergarten, ...

In a talk titled “Disability Bioethics: Toward Theory and Practice,” Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, an English professor and the co-director of the Disability Studies Initiative at Emory University, ...

You, your child, or someone you know has dyslexia. More than 40 million US adults and 15% to 20% of the kids in our schools have dyslexia, with only 5% receiving a diagnosis. Dyslexia is a ...

BALTIMORE -- One in five people in the United States struggle with learning or attention disabilities, according to the Learning Disability Association of America. While they can make learning ...

When students cannot access reading instruction, it affects their confidence, mental health and long-term opportunities. Learning disabilities are the most prevalent disability in the K-12 education ...

Tim Odegard, a professor at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, has personal experience with teachers who did not believe in his intelligence because of a discredited dyslexia screening ...

Just 1.2% of public school third graders were held back after a controversial reading and retention law took effect in Tennessee this year. In May, the Tennessee Department of Education reported that ...