I’m a caseworker in Michigan who works with a student that just started the 9th grade. She has been getting special education services and has been placed on a certificate track for high school graduation instead of a diploma. Her parent doesn’t agree with this, but the school expresses that because she is reading at a second grade level in the 9th grade she will not be able to get a diploma. What type of resources are out there in Michigan for a student like this who has a least four years to improve, and can this decision by the school be forced on the parent and student?

Researchers at the University of Washington have designed a computer-interfaced drawing pad that helps scientists see inside the brains of children with learning disabilities while they read and write in real time.

I teach English Language Development to English language learners in Colorado. This year I began teaching morphology and I found your website and recommendations helpful. I plan to use the activities found on your morphological awareness page as an assessment to show student growth from now through the end of the school year. I realize it was not intended as an assessment so I'm wondering if you have an assessment recommendation or advice on where to find one that is broken into proficiency levels.

Can you please direct me to a place in Michigan that diagnoses dyslexia free of charge? We have spent so much money getting my nine year old daughter tested. We have always suspected that she may be dyslexic, but it was dismissed by the psychologist we hired to do educational testing for our child. Finally, I took her to The Michigan Dyslexia Institute where they looked at all her tests and did their own evaluation. They determined that she has characteristics of dyslexia and they can help her but they cannot diagnose her.

Ivy Guide is a new pen translator in the concept stage that may help make learning a foreign language easier.

​Since the beginning of the 21st century, the issue of how to teach children to read most effectively has become a subject of debate in American education.

We’ve recently blogged about how ChromaGen Lenses are not in themselves a treatment for dyslexia.

There have been many more disconcerting pieces in the news cropping up about the "effectiveness" of the lenses as a treatment for dyslexia, such as this one over at Fox News.

The results of a new study from MIT could help identify dyslexia in children before they even begin reading.

A new study performed by the Smithsonian Institute found that ebook readers may actually be more effective at helping dyslexics with reading comprehension than traditional print books.

Karin Landerl and a team of researchers at the University of Graz, Austria investigated the numerical processing in elementary school children with dyscalculia and a control group of students with good arithmetic skills.