Bart Boets and fellow researchers at the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium conducted a study to discover if they could actively see distorted neural patterns in the brains of dyslexics.

My daughter is spending eight weeks visiting Nicaragua. The first three weeks are in a village with a host family. A child she met in the village “is going to repeat first grade for the third time” according to my daughter. My daughter is majoring in Spanish, but has no training in diagnosing learning disabilities. Is there a very simple set of guidelines I could discuss with her over the phone that will help her generally determine what the child’s disability is? Needless to say the village is extremely poor and so resources to help the child are very limited.

Standford University’s Bruce McCandliss and his colleagues Yuliya Yoncheva and Jessica Wise conducted an experiment hoping to shed some light on a connection between the way a child learns how to read and the brain’s changing circuitry.

I am looking for an opportunity for our son who is now 22 years old. He struggled through grade school and high school (graduated with over a 3.0 GPA), went to college on a soccer and small academic scholarship, and has floundered. The college we chose even had a department for special services that he struggled to use. Is there a school (even boarding) that could help him recover and get back on track? He is diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia. He has a 501 legal plan. If you can offer help in any way it would be greatly appreciated.

My fiance is an adult in his 30s with dyslexia. We are trying to locate the best online program to help him improve his reading and writing through games, activities, etc. We are looking for something he can do without a tutor; basically, practice 30 minutes to 1 hour per day until his skills improve.

I see a lot of tutor-based programs for kids. I was unable to find anything for an adult that meets this criterion.

If you can provide a good recommendation, we would greatly appreciate it.

See how childhood coping mechanisms for getting through school can cause problems for adults with dyslexia.

Dr. Pierson, what can I do to improve my short term memory? Further how can I improve concentration so as to be more diligent in my professional cyclic career. Open offices are really a challenge for me.

How does one develop a sense of self and deal with feelings of helplessness in the face of almost constant failure?

Here are a few more resources and ideas that teachers can use in the classroom.

A new study suggests that playing action video games could improve the literacy skills of those with dyslexia.