A 12-year old child with dyslexia shares his perspective and suggestions on making "March is Reading Month" more inclusive and fun.

What books are age-appropriate for explaining to elementary schoolers that accommodations are essential to help them be successful at school with dealing with dyslexia?

What is going on in Mississippi? In 2013 the state began making big investments in training its teachers in the science of reading. And the investments seems to be getting results.

If you think listening to an audiobook isn’t as effective as good old fashioned reading, you may want to learn about some new research that compared the two.

This study investigated the predictive relationship between key phonological language skills and early reading development in a sample of 191 children, averaging 4 years and 6 months in age. In addition, this study explored the theory that the failure to establish an automatic association between letters and speech sounds is a proximal causal risk factor for difficulties in learning to read.

I have supportive data from Language Ally but have not found anything from my state’s Board of Education or the International Dyslexia Association with regards to audiobooks with fidelity. In particular, multisensory (visual and audible) as well as the importance of being able to search for a word that may have just been missed. Do you have any documents supporting the research studies behind what audiobooks with fidelity look like and the reasoning behind the importance?

Summer is the perfect time to help children’s interests guide them in what they explore and learn about. Podcasts, or spoken audio, can be both educational and entertaining, are free, and cover a wide range of topics.

My son was recently diagnosed with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia. We will be homeschooling him in January. Do you have any tips on how to help him best learn?

I have found tons of research about the benefits of audiobooks for students with dyslexia, but not much about whether it is important or pointless to track the text simultaneously? I'm wondering what you’ve found on this topic?

Reading fluency is key to learning and comprehension from written texts, which is the goal of reading. In order to optimize reading comprehension skills, we need to set realistic reading fluency goals for our students with dyslexia.